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Beisser Lumber Acknowledges Employee Achievements

Beisser Lumber in providing the best service available to it customers has worked cooperatively with the American Institute of Building Design (AIBD) to ensure its designers’ qualifications are competitive. Currently, Beisser has four members who are participate with AIBD which has been in existence for over 40 years and measures a designer’s qualification on a nationally recognized level. The members of AIBD are kept updated in their education about new and improved building materials and technology that will impact how we live in the future. In response to the ever changing needs of the design profession, the AIBD board of directors has established the National Council of Building Designer Certification (NCBDC), and has charged its leadership with overseeing the Designer Certification Program.

Two of our members are currently serving as leaders in the Iowa branch of AIBD as president and secretary. Doug Guyer, our designer in the Coralville office was elected and will be serving as 2008 president. He has been with Beisser Lumber for five years and with AIBD for the past four years with certification.

In the past, Shane Langos has served as vice president (2000-02) and has most recently been elected for a two year term starting in 2008 as secretary. He is also certified and has been with AIBD for eight years (20 years with Beisser Lumber).

Both Doug and Shane have achieved the highest classification level with AIBD that a designer can attain. “To qualify, an individual must first possess a minimum of five years of educational and professional design experience. As with the CPBD credential, a Professional Building Designer must subscribe to a scrupulous code of professional ethics. Equally significant, both require a commitment to professional development through a continuing education policy and provider program.”

“Today, the AIBD represents professional and associate members in 46 states and throughout Canada and abroad. Its chartered societies are active in their respective legislative arenas and work to promote public awareness of the building design profession.”

A third staff member, who has received recognition recently, is Bob Lackman in the Beisser Lumber Coralville office. The Home Builders Association (HBA) of Iowa City has awarded Bob the Associate of the Year award. Bob supervised the opening of the Coralville branch of the company in 2001 and has served six years as manager. He was voted by the HBA to receive this award by the Board of Directors in recognition for his contribution to the community and for organizing the Iowa City Home Show. Bob says, “I believe in the HBA. I have served in the Home Builders Association a total of 15 years in Illinois and Iowa.”

Beisser Lumber Acquires D & D West Homes

Here is a copy of the fax that has been sent to several of our customers and vendors:

February 17, 2007

To Our Valued Customers, Vendors and Friends,

Beisser Lumber is pleased to announce that we have acquired D & D West Homes, Inc. of Grimes, Iowa. D & D West Homes is a manufacture of panelized wall components. We are proud to welcome Darrell and Carla West as shareholders of Beisser Lumber and their employees as part of the Beisser Lumber team.

Darrell and Carla will continue to manage the operations of the newly named D & D West Components + in the same way as before. Our goal will be to bring the quality product of D & D West Components + to builders, developers and general contactors throughout Iowa and surrounding states.

We are excited about this opportunity to serve you and look forward to continuing out relationship with you.

Signed by Kim Beisser, Darrell West and Carla West

Website Updates

Over the course of the next couple weeks we will be updating both the Beisser Lumber and D & D West Components + websites. The new address for D & D West Components + is www.ddwestcomponentsplus.com

Beisser Lumber Service Longevity

Beisser Lumber would like to thank the following employees for their years of commitment with the company.

Marian Beisser - 53 Years Dennis Konvalinka - 45 Years

Dennis Carroll - 38 Years Kim Beisser - 30 Years

Pat Mashek - 25 Years Jeff Johnson - 20 Years

Shane Langos - 19 Years Mark Guthrie - 19 Years

Al Dembinski - 19 Years Andy Johnson - 19 Years

Bob Ditmer - 16 Years Dave Belew - 19 Years

Jim Paine - 16 Years Sam Haus - 15 Years

Greg Campbell - 15 Years Bill Steffey -14 - Years

Chris Belew - 14 Years Larry Haus - 14 Years

Lori Bennett - 13 Years John Earp - 13 Years

Kathy Carroll - 12 Years Rob Walker - 11 Years

Steve Rhode - 10 Years Hans Neilsen - 10 Years

Extreme Makeover

In December 2005 the Kibe family lost their home due to a fire. Since then the family had been living in a one-bedroom camper on their Tama County farm while trying to get an insurance settlement and a loan to rebuild their home.

On September 10, 2006, Ty Pennington of the hit ABC-TV show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition woke up Shawn and Amy Kibe and their three sons to inform them they had been selected as the next family to have a custom home built. The family spent a week on a Caribbean c?uise while Pennington’s crew and thousands of corporate volunteers built their new home.

On September 17th, after only one week, Ty Pennington and the crew revealed a beautiful two story house to the Kibe family.

Several Iowa companies helped in rebuilding the Kibe home: Hubbell Homes, McAninch Corp., Beisser Lumber Co., Adams Door Co., Atlas Construction Services, Cessford Construction, Flooring Gallery, and Soil-tek.

Beisser Lumber was proud to be a part of the ABC-TV show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”

The episode "Kibe Family" aired on October 29th at 7:00PM CST.

For more details and a complete construction history of this project, go to www.hubbellextreme.com

Glenn Connor has authored another wonderful Beisser Newsletter. Click here to download the October 2006 edition. You will need Adobe PDF Reader to view the file.

Awards

Mike Higgins was the second Beisser Lumber Employee to be awarded the TJ Top Gun Award from Weyerhaeuser. This is the first time Weyerhaeuser has presented the Top Gun award to two employees in the same company. Mike has been an employee of Beisser Lumber for 2 years. Congratulations Mike!

Shane Langos a Beisser employee for 19 years and the Manager of our Engineered Wood Department was awarded the TJ Top Gun Award from Weyerhaeuser. This award presented yearly to an individual who exceeds industry standards for product knowledge, design and the use of TJ Expert software. Congratulations Shane and thank you for all your hard work.

Employment Opportunities

Currently we are not hiring any positions. However, we encourage those interested to submit their resume in the event an appropriate positions should become available in the future. Please contact Rob Lambertsen at 515-986-1706 with any questions you may have.