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by Lauri Johnson
CANNON DESIGN WINS HONORS FROM MODERN
HEALTHCARE
Cannon Design St. Louis has won a design award from Modern
Healthcare magazine for its amazing work on the $90 million
Heart Hospital at Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla.
The magazine’s judges called Cannon Design’s Heart Hospital
work “bold and innovative” and awarded the firm a Citation for
Design Excellence.
MURPHY CO. RANKED AMONG TOP 10 MECHANICAL
CONTRACTORS BY ENGINEERING NEWS-RECORD
Murphy Co. Mechanical Contractors & Engineers ranked No. 10
among the nation’s top mechanical contractors with a 2005 revenue
of $172.3 million, according to Engineering News-Record’s
annual survey. The ranking was featured in the Oct. 16, 2006,
issue of the magazine. The firm ranked No. 65 on the magazine’s
Top 600 Specialty Contractors list, which included firms that
specialize in concrete, demolition/wrecking, electrical, masonry,
painting, roofing, steel erection and related categories.
PUKSZTA NAMED AN UP-AND-COMER BY HEALTHCARE
DESIGN
Michael Pukszta, a principal at Cannon Design, has been recognized
by Healthcare Design magazine as a Top 20 Up-And-Comer
in the practice of healthcare for his outstanding contributions
in healthcare planning and design. Pukszta joined Cannon Design
in 1995 and is currently chairman of the firm’s steering committee
for its national healthcare practice.
ST. CHARLES NAMED ONE OF 25 BEST AFFORDABLE
SUBURBS FOR 2006
BusinessWeek.com has named St. Charles, Mo., 63304, one of the
25 best affordable suburbs in the United States, according to
the Nov. 16, 2006, issue. Working with Portland, Ore.-based
Web site Sperling’s Best Places, BusinessWeek.com selected the
most affordable suburbs near the nation’s largest metropolitan
areas based on the cost of living, median home prices, secondary
school test scores and violent crime statistics
According to the list, the median home price in St. Charles
is $212,000. St. Charles has a cost of living index of 101.7
(national average is 100); a secondary test scores index of
127 (average among featured suburbs is 114); and a violent crime
index of 22 (average among featured suburbs is 54).
RSM MCGLADREY-SPONSORED PGA TOUR PLAYER
GRACES THE COVER OF GOLF DIGEST
Golf Digest has featured Chris DiMarco, a PGA TOUR player
sponsored by RSM McGladrey, on the cover of its December 2006
issue. The magazine also features DiMarco in a two-page layout
that examines his golf swing. As part of a sponsorship deal
with RSM McGladrey, DiMarco wears the firm’s logo on all of
his golf shirts.
RSM McGladrey is the official accounting, tax and business-consulting
firm of the PGA of America. In 2006, the firm signed sponsorship
deals with DiMarco, LPGA Tour player Natalie Gulbis and PGA
TOUR player Zach Johnson.
A.G. EDWARDS’ FREEMAN NAMED TOP MARKET
ANALYST IN BUSINESSWEEK SURVEY
Stuart Freeman, chief equity strategist at A.G. Edwards, has
been recognized as the top-rated market analyst based on his
predictions for the year-end levels of several key market indicators,
according to a survey released by BusinessWeek magazine
in the Dec. 25, 2006, issue.
The survey showed that Freeman’s targets for the Dow Jones Industrial
Average, the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 were within two percent
of their actual closing levels on Dec. 6, 2006. BusinessWeek
surveyed 76 equity strategists in December of 2005 and asked
them to predict where they thought the Dow, the NASDAQ and the
S&P 500 would end the year in 2006.
“Freeman, who earned both a bachelor’s in finance and an MBA
from Washington University in St. Louis, credits a favorite
professor, John Bowyer, for teaching him to analyze the stock
market,” noted the magazine. “Since joining A.G. Edwards as
a health-care analyst in 1983, Freeman has developed a set of
models with 200 variables that go back 30 years, including the
average duration of unemployment and a measure of after-tax
corporate profits. With these, he can simulate the economy and
determine which industries will do best under the various conditions
he forecasts.”
