UMA MEMBER COMPANIES IN THE NEWS:
ST. GEORGE COMPANY BUILDS LARGEST BUILDING WRAPDesign to Print – A UMA Member Company
April 18, 2011--St. George, Utah. In a city where bigger means better, a premier East Coast print company has stretched their arms to the Southwest to discover the fittest and finest for a new world-record-breaking task at hand. Design to Print, Southern Utah’s leading grand format printing giant, succeeded in landing the subcontract for the world’s largest building wrap.
Design to Print is reaching epic proportions as the building wrap will consist of 215,000 square feet of welded mesh vinyl, and contains seams reinforced with over 6.8 miles of webbing--the equivalence to the height of Mt. Everest. The project lands slightly shy of the likeness of over 900 billboards.
A grand undertaking for Southern Utah’s powerhouse, Design to Print aims itself to higher ventures. Always striving for innovative ideas with a detail for customer confidentiality, Design to Print specializes in producing custom, oversized, large quantity work with quality and expertise--and on a short deadline. Design to Print took on this project’s vast proportions and delivered a finished result in approximately 8 days. Design to Print prides itself as a company which prioritizes the client’s needs by protecting privacy with sound loyalty, and maintains confidentiality in the confines of the discreet Southwest Desert.
The drive for customer satisfaction builds Design to Print’s energy and excitement over each project--adding a good mix of small town charm with big city dynamics to produce a play ground for concepts of skyscraper proportions. The grand format solvent and UV presses, precision cutting, heat welding and seaming (all of which are produced on over 103, 000 sq. ft. of floor space) make Design to Print the global premier grand format print shop for customers in any municipality worldwide.
Design to Print catches the eye of many colossal institutes across the globe. From China to Italy--the NBA to the Olympics--Design to Print has made a megalopolis impact in pre-press color separations for printing, large format high-resolution color printing, full color banner printing, billboard printing, UV flatbed printing, green VOC free printing, environmentally friendly/recyclable printing substrates, full color vehicle wraps, and fine art reproductions.
Upon completion of the world’s largest building wrap, Utah’s little town blues are melting away as Design to Print shows they’ve made it there, and they’ll make it anywhere—to the big cities and beyond.
AXIS ARCHITECTS’ OFFICES AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS LEED® GOLD CERTIFICATION
Axis Architects announced today that their new office has been awarded LEED® Gold certification established by the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED is the nation’s preeminent program for the design, construction and operation of high performance buildings.
“Axis Architects’ LEED Gold certification demonstrates tremendous green building leadership,” said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO & Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council. “The urgency of USGBC’s mission has challenged the industry to move faster and reach further than ever before, and the Axis Architects Office serves as a prime example with just how much we can accomplish.”
A few years ago, Axis Architects recognized a need for a larger facility to allow for an expanding staff. Though they considered designing a new building, it was determined that it would be more environmentally sound to upgrade some of Utah’s existing building stock, thereby conserving energy and diverting potential demolition debris from the land fill.
“While the LEED certification process is always a challenging undertaking, we wanted to expand our role on this particular endeavor,” said LEED Project Team Administrator David Anderson. “By performing the duties of not only the architect, but also those of the landscape architect, general contractor and building owner as well, we have a new perspective and greater understanding of the process from all sides.”
GOVERNOR DEFENDS VETO OF TRANSPORTATION FUNDING BILL
Tom Bingham, UMA PresidentI attended a Salt Lake Chamber Transportation Taskforce meeting this morning where Governor Gary Herbert had been invited to discuss with business leaders, dominated by highway construction executives, his reasons for vetoing SB-229, Transportation Funding Revisions, by Senator Stuart Adams. The legislature is pondering a veto session, perhaps next week, to override this and perhaps three other bills the Governor vetoed following the General Session in March.
Governor Herbert told us without equivocation, “My veto of SB-229 has nothing to do with my support for Transportation in Utah. My record speaks for itself.” He reminded us he was the one who organized the transportation summit in Utah in 2005 when he was Lt. Governor in the Huntsman administration. He insisted he is fully supportive of transportation; for building infrastructure and highways across Utah. He said he understands the relationship between adequate infrastructure and the growth of business, especially manufacturing.
“The reason,” he said, “I vetoed this bill is because I believe it takes away much needed flexibility in the use of general funds. This would not put anymore or any less money in the coffers of transportation in Utah. The legislature can put the entire general fund in transportation if they want to. But, if they earmark 30% of that general fund money for transportation, it cannot be used for any of a host of other critical needs; that decision has already been made.”
The Governor suggested we are looking at considerable uncertainty in this recessionary time, not the least of which is in federal funding. We have great needs in higher education. While we have large increases in student enrollments, their funding was cut because of other priorities. He further told the group that Utah is now spending about the same proportion of sales tax for transportation as is collected from transportation-related sales.
“I vetoed the bill because I don’t think we should tie our hands in the budgetary process”, he concluded. “We need to consider some other ways to address transportation needs in Utah and that may include a motor fuel tax at the right time,” he postulated. He concluded his comments by stating, “I am not willing to take the motor fuel tax off the table by earmarking a large percentage of sales tax for transportation; that is not good policy.”
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