2012 Forty Under 40 winners announced

We are proud to announce to all our valued partners that our Director of Operations has earned this distinct honor!  Also, we’d like to congratulate the recipients from our clients at Trope Group and the City of Novato!  Below, you will find the article written by Tiana Sandoval, Event Development Manager for the North Bay Business Journal.

NORTH BAY — The Business Journal announced the winners of its sixth-annual Forty Under 40 awards today. The winners, selected from more than 100 nominees by the Business Journal editorial staff, were chosen on the basis of their leadership in companies and organizations as well as their participation within the community across the North Bay.

“The talent and depth in this sixth class of Forty Under 40 young business leaders is nothing short of inspiring,” said Business Journal Editor and Associate Publisher Brad Bollinger. “Congratulations to the organizations that are developing these talented young people and thank you to those who took the time to nominate someone. These are the entrepreneurs and professionals that are helping shape the future of the North Bay.”

Mr. Bollinger noted that with over 100 finalists, the selection process was extremely competitive. “To those who were not chosen this year, we hope to see you back in 2013.”

Winners of the 2012 awards will be honored at a gala reception on May 2, 2012, 5:30–7:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Vineyard Creek in Santa Rosa.

2012 Forty Under 40 winners (listed alphabetically)

Nicole Arnone, Cipolla Financial & Insurance Services

Amy Berliner, Amy’s Kitchen

Lorna Brown, My Gym Santa Rosa

Ariel Ceja, Bistro Sabor

Alicia Cerruti, Pisenti & Brinker

Scott Cheeseman, Phillips Tile

Anthony Cinquini, Cinquini & Passarino, Inc.

Maureen Cottingham, Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers

Michelle Crosbie, Dal Poggetto & Company, LLP

Zack Darling, Creative Associates

Steve Distler, Carpe Diem Wine Bar

Aleisha Dobbins, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.

Roger Farrell, Integrity Construction Maintenance, Inc.

Jason Glazier, Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC

Anna Guhin, Three Dog Yoga

Keith Hitman, Summit Technology Group, Inc.

Jennielynn Holmes Davis, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa

Robert Jacob, Peace in Medicine

Shawn Jensen, Moss Adams LLP

Mike Kallhoff, United Way of the Wine Country

Stephanie Kendall, Carpe Diem Wine

Dan Kosta, Kosta Browne Winery

Karissa Kruse, Argot Wines/Onit Consulting, LLC

Naveen Kumar, MD, The Kaiser Permanente San Rafael

Ethan Lee, Burr Pilger Mayer

Eric Lucan, City of Novato

Connor Massey, Gaw Van Male

Jana McClelland, McClelland’s Dairy

Laura Norton, Redwood Regional Medical Group

Danielle O’Leary, City of Santa Rosa

Oscar Pardo, Perry, Johnson, Anderson, Miller & Moskowitz, LLP

Bryce Pattison, Royal Petroleum

Lino Ramos, Infineon Raceway

Sara Randall, PDI Surgery Center

Heather Resseger, RN, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital

Michael Riel, M.A. Silva USA

Edward Rosa, Insight Computing LLC

Heather Silva, Trope Group

Kelly Steele Jordan, Nelson Staffing

Anthony Truchard, Truchard Vineyards

Olivia Walton, Liv Fashion Boutique Inc.

Rick Wells, San Rafael Chamber of Commerce

Anita Wiglesworth, Wells Fargo Center for the Arts

Tim Zahner, Sonoma County Tourism Bureau

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Link to article: http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/50299/2012-forty-under-40-winners-announced/

Money Saving Tips: Heat and Cooling

TIME magazine published an article reporting that the heating, cooling and powering of office spaces are responsible for almost 40% of all carbon dioxide emission in the U.S. and  more than 70% of total electricity usage.   An adjustment of only a  degree or two can cut heating or cooling bills by 2 to 3%.  Extending that to three or four   degrees can produce savings of 10% or more.

Other ideas:

1.  Use automatic setback thermostats to adjust the temperature for nights and weekends.

2.  Consider outside air economizers that use outside air to cool down buildings when the air outside is cooler than the air inside.

3.  Think about solar shading to reduce the amount of heat from the sun that penetrates your office building.

4.  Keep the blinds closed to conserve heat in winter and keep it out during summer.

Cultural Construction: Super Bowl Stadiums

As a company thriving in a recession that has hit our industry particularly hard, Integrity Construction Maintenance, Inc. is indebted to clients who have chosen to partner with us.  By choosing a local contractor for construction projects, client’s money stays cycling through our community, and the client saves on the cost of imported management and labor.

On Sunday, if history repeats itself, over 100 million viewers will witness the greatest annual example of the benefits buying local can have on a community – the NFL Superbowl.  Super Bowl locations are chosen a half decade in advance.  Potential host cities submit applications detailing their qualifications for the job, including plans for stadium renovation.  In some cases, an entirely new stadium is required.

Ground was broken for Lucas Oil Stadium on September 20th, 2005.  Of the $720 million expense for the project, the home team Colts organization provided $100 million, with the State of Indiana and City of Indianapolis sharing the brunt of the burden.  However, prior to the NFL play-offs, Lucas Oil Stadium reports more than $1 billion in benefits to the state economy, in addition to 3,000 permanent new jobs and 3,500 construction jobs.  Indianapolis-based Hunt Construction Group is the primary contractor.  Indianapolis-based VS Engineering is the primary engineer.  Indianapolis-based Independent Concrete Pipe Co. is the primary precast manufacturer.  Each of the subcontractors these firms employed is based in Indiana.

While much of the hospitality dollars spent this weekend will go to hotel corporate headquarters outside the host city, valets, cab drivers, bellhops, waiters, and bartenders have an opportunity to collect tips from the high-end clientele an event of this magnitude attracts, and well-prepared food vendors have the opportunity to match their usual annual profits in a single weekend.  Residents of Indianapolis outside of the construction and hospitality industries, benefit from improved infrastructure as streets, bridges, sidewalks, and guests are refaced to impress 150,000 tourists.  The NFL donated $1 million towards a community center to be built in an underserved neighborhood.  A nearby high school received a new practice facility and turf field, in exchange for allowing participating teams to practice there this week.

Look what we can accomplish when we Buy Local?

Modern Toilet… Restaurant?

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Our Integrity web team stumbled across this Asian chain of TOILET themed restaurants.  Do you think they refer to their dishwashers as janitors?  They are technically cleaning toilets…

Green Business Solution: Dispensers

In most circumstances, Integrity Construction Maintenance, Inc. offers dispensers installation complimentary to clients for whom we supply janitorial consumables. 

1.)  Roll towels:

Consider changing your paper towel dispensers from multifold towels to controlled-use roll towel dispensers.  Green Seal estimates this change will reduce usage by 25-35%. These towels also require restocking less      frequently, cutting back on labor.

2.)  Foam Soap:

Switching from liquid to foam soap is another way to reduce usage.  Foam soap requires less product per hand wash, does not drip like liquid, and conserves water due to a reduction in both lather time—the soap dispenses as a lather, and rinse time—liquid soaps adhere to the skin, requiring greater effort to remove  residue.

3.)  Toilet paper dispensers:

Dual roll sliding toilet paper dispensers are ideal for decreasing usage in that they encourage the completion of full rolls, versus the standard dispensers in which rolls are changed out when low.  They also prevent supply pilfering in public restrooms.

Client Spotlight: Mid-century Dining at Midtown Café

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Our construction division recently had the honor of working with a Sonoma County institution, Chris Clemons of Pengrove’s  Super Burger, on his latest venture.  Midtown Café,  located on 4th Street in Santa Rosa (across from the original Super Burger), is an homage to decades past, when meals were a social event and food was fresh and made with pride.

Looking for a place to take a working lunch break?  Take advantage of free Wi-Fi while washing the “Gobble Pipe”, their  popular Thanksgiving-inspired sandwich of turkey, brie, caramelized onion, and  cranberry mustard aioli, down with a classic, glass-bottle Coke.  Want to watch a football game before the sports bars open?  With hours from 7 am– 3pm, enjoy their big screen TV and a “Sueyside”, the best-selling stack of 5 pancakes layered  with ham, bacon, sausage, hash browns, and fried egg.

Job foreman Greg Garrison was impressed with Chris’s passion for creating a unique dining experience.  The kitchen is open so you can see your sandwiches being made fresh to order. The walls are hung with vintage advertisements and flapper art above period-perfect wainscoting. Dining tables include classic games like dominoes and conversation starting books like “Would You Rather?”  They also stock a library of autographed books from local authors (they host book signings monthly).

A true supporter of local businesses, Midtown Café makes all sandwiches on Pengrove-baked Full Circle bread, brews locally roasted fair-trade organic coffees and teas, and has local beers on tap.  Their free range turkey and beef are roasted in house, where they also make their corned beef.  Enjoy!

Cleaning as Art?

Our company president always says that maintaining a facility properly takes a trained eye, artistic talent, and vision.  In fact, we ‘eye test’ each new janitorial trainee and provide them with specific guidance on how to develop that Integrity vision.  Therefore seeing these ads for a French paper towel manufacturer made us smile.  They get us.  The tagline translates “The Domestic Art”.

Photos borrowed from adsoftheworld.com

It Starts At Home: Go Local This Holiday Season

The Bay Area’s mild climate and rich culinary culture combine to produce some of the finest local foods in the world. In 2005, four San Francisco foodies founded the “Locavore” movement, pledging to maintain a 100-mile diet, eating only foods that grew within 100-miles of their homes. A TIME Magazine article on the movement stated: “Food sold in U.S. supermarkets averages some 1,500 miles from farm to plate.” Not only does this cause unnecessary pollution, the foods require preservatives and additives to survive the travel time. Committing to eating locally is committing to freshness, quality, and support of our incredible community.

Several members of the Integrity team are member of the Laguna Farm co-operative in Sebastopol, where we pick-up biweekly boxes of fresh, organic produce. Outside of Sonoma County, the Locavores website has a “food web links” section to help locate farmers’ markets (their favorite is at Ferry Market Plaza in San Francisco), farms, and grocery brands produced locally—such as Point Reyes’ Cowgirl Creamery, and Marshall’s Straus Organics, and of course, our area’s plentiful selection of local wines.

Looking for a holiday turkey?

Willie Bird of Santa Rosa has been raising poultry for 75 years, and their free-range offerings will make you quickly forget the usual Butterball (which doesn’t have a single production plant in the western United States).

What about baked goods?

Integrity favorite J.M Rosen’s of Petaluma makes cheesecakes and desserts (see above) so divine that Frank Sinatra had a standing weekly order of four cakes. Available at Whole Foods Market, their seasonal offerings include pumpkin, cranberry, and eggnog cheesecakes. We also recommend La Boulange Bakery, with locations in San Francisco, Marin, and the East Bay (Whole Foods also sells their cookie dough if you want to impress friends with “home-baked” goodies). They use only organic coffee and espresso and recyclable or compostable packaging.

Integrity is proud to support local vendors, local industry, and the satisfied taste-buds of your clients, guests, and families. We wish you a blessed and delicious holiday season!

World Toilet Day

Tomorrow, November 19th, is World Toilet Day.  According to the World Toilet Organization, this day is “celebrated in over 19 countries with over 51 events being hosted by various water and sanitation advocates.”

“World Toilet Organization created WTD to raise global awareness of the struggle 2.6 billion face every day without access to proper, clean sanitation.  WTD also brings to the forefront the health, emotional and psychological consequences the poor endure as a result of inadequate sanitation.”

Integrity is a proud sponsor of 17 children in under-privileged areas around the globe.  Check out World Vision’s photo blog, linked to below, on the efforts they’ve made to provide children around the globe with a safe, sanitary place to “do their business”.

 An ode to the toilet (PHOTO BLOG).

New York City Construction Worker Sings Frank Sinatra

A few weeks ago we shared a video of a singing janitor who was featured on Rachael Ray’s show. But Integrity Construction Maintenance, Inc. is much more than a janitorial company, and a singing laborer representing one of our other areas of expertise, construction, also caught Ms. Ray’s attention. Watch Gary Russo sing “The Summer Wind” on 2nd Avenue below… and visit our construction page to view our full range of services from that division!