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The St. Louis
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ST. LOUIS PRODUCT TAKES TOP DESIGN HONORS
One of the 41 Gold Awards in the 2002 Industrial Design Excellence
Award (IDEA) competition went to a St. Louis-invented medical device
called the I.V. House UltraDressing™ making it one of the best and
hottest designs of the year. The annual IDEA program is co-sponsored
by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and BusinessWeek.
The BusinessWeek IDEA report hit the stands July 1st. A complete
list of winners can be found at www.businessweek.com.
“If you’ve ever worn an IV you know that snagging it on clothing
or furniture is pretty common and usually requires a painful restart,”
says Betty Rozier, President of I.V. House, Inc. “But the I.V. House
UltraDressing™ shields both the IV catheter and the attached looped
tubing, greatly reducing any chances of dislodgment.” It attaches
via a tape-free, re-sealable fabric “glove” that adapts to fit either
hand.
“Before I.V. House, nurses would often protect IV sites by fashioning
makeshift devices from medicine or specimen cups,” says Lisa Vallino,
a former pediatric ER nurse at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital
and vice-president/ clinical director of I.V. House, Inc. “I knew
that a piece of standard equipment for IV site protection could
save nurses time and save hospitals money by preventing costly restarts—not
to mention sparing patients the trauma of additional needle-sticks,
a critical issue for children and the elderly.”
Vallino and her mother, Betty Rozier, co-inventor and business partner,
have been working on the design of the IV House UltraDressing™ for
the last six years. The I.V. House UltraDressing™ is now available.
“The Gold IDEA is the ‘academy award’ of design,” says Bryce Rutter,
Ph.D., one of the world’s experts in handheld design and founder
and CEO of Metaphase Design Group, Clayton, Mo. Rutter led the team
that finalized the design for the new I.V. House UltraDressing™
and shares the award with I.V. House. “To win a Gold IDEA for a
product that helps people, makes this honor even more profound.”
Rutter’s Metaphase Group also won Gold for a chair design.
“The I.V. House is a very elegant solution to a very old problem.
It’s one of those designs that makes you wonder why nobody thought
of it before,” notes Stephen B. Wilcox, Ph.D. and Fellow of the
IDSA.
“Not all Gold winners are the sleekest and slickest designs,” says
IDSA Juror, Andy Diaz-Hope. “We look at all aspects of an entry
to gauge its looks and functionality before we even consider it
for an award. The product won’t win an award just because it looks
good. The product has to function or create a needed functionality
better than any of its predecessors. Any product that won, essentially,
raised the bar of excellence for that category.”
 Four
St. Louis area firms snagged a place on BusinessWeek’s
listing of top 100 Hot Growth Companies:
- Engineered
Support Systems (ESS) — #52
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Right Management Consultants (based in Pa. with
offices in St. Louis) — #61
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Young Innovations — #75
- Argosy
Gaming Company — #83
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To
build their annual Hot Growth list, BusinessWeek
looks at public companies with sales between $50 million
and $1.5 billion. For consideration, companies must
have a stock price of more than $5 as well as a market
cap greater than $25 million. Rankings are based on
sales and earnings growth and average return on capital.
BusinessWeek looks at those numbers over the
past three years and eliminates any with recent declines
in financial results or whose stock price has under-
performed the Standard & Poor’s Industrials over the
past year and year to date.
Results are based on data gathered through May 9,
2002, and the Hot Growth Companies listing
appeared in BusinessWeek’s June 10th issue.
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CANNON
DESIGN MAKES NEW ORLEANS TOP FOUR ARCHITECTURAL LIST
 Cannon
Design was recognized as a national player in the
health sciences field for its re-design of the New
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St. Louis-based Cannon Design was recognized in the May issue of
New Orleans Magazine for their award-winning design of the
Children’s Hospital Research and Education Building. Featured as
the only out-of-town company in the magazine’s “Sixth Annual Best
of New New Orleans Architecture” review, Canon was recognized
as a major national design player in the health sciences field.
The 60,000-square-foot laboratory and office building is headquarters
of the Research Institute for Children, a joint project of Children’s
Hospital and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.
The extensive review describes the facility as possessing “a striking,
well-composed exterior” with “very successful interiors for researchers’
offices,” and “state-of-the-art laboratory facilities.”
The article also listed those responsible for the award-winning
design as George Nikolajevich, design principal; Merlin Lickhalter,
project principal; Thomas Harvath, project manager and laboratory
planner; and Lynn Gossman, project designer.
A WIZARD'S JOURNEY FROM COOPERSTOWN TO
THE BREAKFAST AISLE
The beloved and legendary Cardinals shortstop, Ozzie Smith was this
year’s only inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He scooped
up another honor this summer: Wheaties Champion. In conjunction
with his Hall of Fame arrival, Smith’s picture began appearing on
special edition boxes of Wheaties cereal.
NATIONAL LISTING OF TECH SAVVY CONTRACTORS
INCLUDES 5 ST. LOUIS FIRMS
Constructech magazine’s June 2002 issue listed Paric Corp.
as the most “tech savvy” contractor in the St. Louis area. The publication,
which focuses on technology solutions for construction and facility
management, also places Paric 11th nationally in its “Constructech
100” survey.
Other St. Louis firms joining Paric on the Constructech 100
list are:
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Fred Weber Inc. – 16th
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Fru-Con Construction Corp. – 38th
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The Jones Co. – 40th
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S.M. Wilson & Co. – 82nd
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The results
were based on a survey that gauged a firm’s commitment to inte-
grating information technology into its daily operations.
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