The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky, a member of the Kentucky state university system. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General Assembly to be a “Preeminent Metropolitan Research University”. UofL enrolls students from 118 of 120 Kentucky counties, all 50 U.S. states, and 116 countries around the world.
The University Library grew from an original donation of Dean John Letcher Patterson’s personal collection in the early 1900s. By 1950, the library had over 36,000 books in its collection. In 1956, the University gave the library its own building (now Schneider Hall) to accommodate the growing collection.
By 1970, the collection contained over 200,000 items. At the end of the 1970s, the University Library building reached capacity, forcing parts of the collection to be placed in storage. Plans were made to create a new $14 million library to accommodate the growing collection. Named after Dr. William F. Ekstrom, a noted English Professor and the first Academic Vice-President of the University, the Ekstrom Library opened on August 28, 1981.
Calhoun Construction served as the General Contractor for the Eskstrom Library Delphi Center 3rd floor. Calhoun self-performed the metal stud framing, installation of hollow metal frames, doors and window frames, drywall hanging and finishing, acoustical ceilings, painting and new mechanical system.
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Square Footage: 9,509 sq ft
Year Completed: 2016
Project Location: Louisville, KY
Contract Type: General Contractor
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Zeochem, a manufacturer of high quality molecular sieves and chromatography gels, was established more than 190 years ago and its headquarters is still based at the original location on Lake Zurich, Switzerland. The Schnorf brothers start up a manufacturing facility in Uetikon (Switzerland) for the production of sulphuric acid, iron sulphate and copper sulphate.
With manufacturing facilities in Uetikon, Switzerland and Louisville, USA, we offer to our customers a wide range of high performance products and provide coordinated global support to all molecular sieve adsorbent and silica gel markets.
Calhoun Construction Services served as a General Contractor for the Wyssmont Dryer Installation on the third and fourth floors of Plant A building in the Louisville, Kentucky facility. The scope of this project consisted of strengthening existing beams, infilling of existing openings with concrete slab-on-metal deck and the creation of new floor slab openings for the installation on a new dryer unit. There was temporary shoring and demolition required in addition to a new temporary exterior wall.
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Square Footage: N/A
Year Completed: 2016
Project Location: Louisville, KY
Contract Type: General Contractor
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Tower International is a leading integrated global manufacturer of engineered structural metal components and assemblies.
The company supplies the automotive industry with body-structure stampings, frames and other chassis structures, as well as complex welded assemblies for small and large cars, crossovers, pickups and SUVs.
Calhoun Construction Services provides ongoing facility maintenance and small construction projects for the Shepherdsville, Kentucky plant.
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Year Completed: Ongoing
Project Location: Shepherdsville, KY
Contract Type: Trade Contractor
UPS
United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is the world’s largest package delivery company and a provider of supply chain management solutions. UPS delivers more than 15 million packages a day to more than 6.1 million customers in more than 220 countries and territories around the world.
UPS is known for its brown delivery trucks and uniforms, hence the company nickname “Brown”. UPS also operates its own airline and air cargo delivery based in Louisville, Kentucky.
Calhoun Construction Services provides 24/7 emergency service for the plants buildings, expansions and perform weekly maintenance and upgrades to the Louisville facilities.
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Year Completed: Ongoing
Project Location: Louisville & Lexington, KY
Contract Type: General Contractor
With growth of 575% in two years, how is this company still under the radar?
Feb 18, 2016, 2:51pm EST
There is a chance you have never heard of this local construction firm, but it has its hands on some of the biggest projects in Louisville, including two major renovations at Churchill Downs Racetrack and the blockbuster Omni hotel project in downtown Louisville.
Louisville-based Calhoun Construction Services Inc. was formed in 2012, and its revenue grew 575 percent in two years — from $4 million in 2013 to $27 million last year.
John Hinshaw is the new president of Louisville-based Calhoun Construction Services.
Calhoun Construction Services Inc.
The company ranked No. 14 on our list of the Louisville area’s largest general contractors, with $25.8 million in work billed out of local offices in 2014.
Calhoun specializes in construction management, general contracting and trade contracting. Employment at the company has grown from two salaried employees to 25. It also employs about 100 contractors, such as carpenters, laborers, construction workers and other specialty positions.
President John Hinshaw credits Calhoun’s growth to the company’s flexibility — it specializes in all forms of commercial construction but also has expertise in construction management. And, he said, the company’s skilled workforce leads to a lot of repeat customers.
About 100 of Calhoun’s employees and contractors are based in the Louisville area, but the company is active across Kentucky, including Lexington and Owensboro, and in Tennessee, particularly the Nashville area.
As I previously mentioned, Louisville-based Churchill Downs Inc. (NASDAQ: CHDN) is well-acquainted with Calhoun’s work. The construction firm was the general contractor for the construction of 20 private, open-air owners suites near Churchill Downs Racetrack’s trackside Winner’s Circle last year, a roughly $4 million project
And Calhoun has returned to the track this year to lead the $18 million renovation of the Turf Club, Stakes Room and other premium seating areas — a project that is slated to be finished before the start of the Spring Meet on April 30.
Hinshaw said a lot of the company’s repeat customers are public institutions, with the company having done work for the University of Kentucky, University of Louisville and Indiana University Southeast in New Albany. Currently, Calhoun is the drywall contractor for a new training facility for the UK football team, a roughly $2.5 million project,
Hinshaw said the company also has done the general contracting work on multiple Blaze Pizza locations in Louisville, Lexington and Brentwood,Tenn.
According to the company’s website, Calhoun has been a trade contractor for the Speed Art Museum renovation and expansion, is an ongoing maintenance contractor for General Electric Co.’s (NYSE: GE) Appliance Park in Louisville and was a trade contractor on a 53,808-square-foot bourbon warehouse in Shelbyville for global alcoholic beverage giant London-based Diageo PLC. (You can find a full list of the company’s projects here.)
And the company’s profile should only grow — it is working with Birmingham, Ala.-based general contractor Brasfield & Gorrie on construction management of the nearly $300 million Omni Louisville Hotel project that just broke ground in downtown Louisville.
New leadership team
In the midst of this growth, the leadership team has changed for the company.
Calhoun was founded by multiple investors in 2012 who serve as silent partners and remain active in the company, said Calhoun marketing manager Shannon Haste. She declined to identify the investors.
Kevin Harpring led the company as president until he retired last month, turning over the reins to Hinshaw, who joined Calhoun in 2013 as director of operations, where he specialized in managing projects from start to finish.
Harpring was out of the state on Thursday and could not immediately be reached for comment.
Hinshaw also became a co-owner in the company in January, along with two other new co-owners, Mike Williams, Calhoun’s operations manager, and Kurt Meadors, vice president and senior estimator.
When I spoke to Hinshaw earlier this week, he confirmed the ownership change but declined to disclose any further details about the ownership structure of the company.
Hinshaw, an Indiana native, has more than 20 years of experience in the commercial construction industry and has worked on numerous projects, including hotels and apartment complexes.
“We’ve built an elite team of professionals here in our community that have the experience and ability to build almost anything,” Hinshaw said.
This article originally ran in the February 18th edition of Business First.
Kentucky Exposition Center – DAS Room
The Kentucky Exposition Center (KEC), formerly Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center (KFEC) was originally built in 1956. KEC is a large multi-use facility in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It is overseen by the Kentucky State Fair Board, and is one of the ten largest facilities of its type in the U.S., with over 1,200,000 square feet of indoor space.
Calhoun Construction served as the General Contractor building a DAS Room for their new telecommunications system. Calhoun self-performed the metal stud framing, drywall hanging and finishing, ceiling, and paint.
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Square Footage: 800 sq ft
Year Completed: 2016
Project Location: Louisville, KY
Contract Type: General Contractor
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Butler Traditional High School opened in 1954. It was chosen in 1988 as the second high school in Jefferson County to offer the Traditional Program. In this program the standards of patriotism, morality, and personal integrity are stressed in a structured learning environment. The school has a strict dress code, discipline code, heterogeneous grouping, technology major, and college preparatory curriculum. It is the only school in JCPS to obtain and/or exceed its goal for CATS testing every year during the existence of the yearly examinations.
Another benchmark year to Butler’s history occurred in 1989 when she became the second traditional school in Jefferson County (Male being the first). The school underwent many changes during this time period which phased-in new curriculum requirements and renamed the school to Butler Traditional/Technical High School. Again, an enrollment explosion took place with 1,240 students which included one of the smallest senior classes and one of the largest freshman classes. Uniforms were gradually phased-in along with new academic guidelines. It might be interesting to note that Butler was the first public high school in the nation to require school uniforms. With a new school crest, along with many other changes, a new era had been born.
Butler High School has provided over fifty years of hope and confidence for nearly 20,000 young people of Jefferson County and will continue to do so for many years to come.
Calhoun Construction served as the General Contractor for a complete HVAC upgrade to the facility. Along with HVAC, all windows are being upgraded along with classroom upgrades and site work. This is a 2 year phased project with 5 separate completion dates throughout the project.
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Square Footage: 200,000 sq ft
Year Completed: 2016-2017
Project Location: Louisville, KY
Contract Type: General Contractor
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The University of Louisville Medical-Dental Research Building (MDR) is a 116,672 SF building that was built in 1962 in Louisville, KY. The building serves as a home-base for reseach of Anatomical Science and Neurobiology, Cardiology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Neurology, and several other facets of the medical industry. Working for the University of Louisville, Calhoun Construction recently completed a major renovation within this facitily for the Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology. Their research focuses on the form and function of developing sensory systems.
The renovation project that Calhoun completed was Phase 7 of a multi-phased renovation to the seven-story MDR building. Phase 7 consisted of a 2,445 SF renovation of the 4th Floor, where all the work had to be performed with the building remaining operational. The renovations included complete demolition of the existing lab areas and new rooms being constructed for new offices, student work areas, open labs, wet lab, surgery areas, RIG rooms, and a behavioral area. Calhoun installed all new finishes, laboratory casework, fume hoods, exhaust snorkels, and reworked and installed new mechanical and electrical systems. The contracted project schedule was for 15 weeks. Due to extensive planning and critical coordination, Calhoun was able to cut the schedule down to 13 weeks and enable the Owners to move into the space 2 weeks early.
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Year Completed: 2016
Project Location: Louisville, KY
Contract Type: General Contractor
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Facility Solutions is a regionally based construction firm providing Integrated Facility Maintenance and General Contracting services in ten states. They offer rapid response and 24/7 availability.
In addition to providing Integrated Facility Maintenance (IFM) and Project Management services, Facilities Solutions offers Call Center Services, Emergency Preparedness, Recovery and Build-back solutions.
Their IFM program provides routine services for general building and facility repairs including electrical, plumbing, carpentry, millwork, glazing, carpet replacement, painting, ATM construction/installation/replacement, doors, parking lot repair, exterior lighting and signage installation, sidewalk repair, roof evaluations and repairs, above grade waterproofing, landscaping and grounds maintenance.
Calhoun Construction Services provides the 24/7 emergency service for Facility Solutions in multiple Walgreens locations throughout Indiana and Kentucky. Calhoun’s services have included pharmacy renovations, painting, drywall repairs, exterior brick repairs, store front windows and doors, parking bollards, electrical service and generator installations to maintain the stores during elecrtical outages.
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Year Completed: Ongoing
Project Location: Indiana & Kentucky
Contract Type: Trade Contractor
General Electric
General Electric – GE Appliances & Lighting, (formally known as GE Consumer and Industrial), is an American “white goods” manufacturer, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.
General Electric’s Appliance Park opened in Louisville, KY in 1951 on the 1,000-acre manufacturing facility that eventually employed 25,000 full-time employees.
From design to production to service, their goal is to help people improve their lives at home and this manufacturing takes place in Louisville’s very own Appliance Park.
From self-cleaning ranges to ice and water dispensers, to speedcook ovens and refrigerators that make coffee, GE Appliances has electrified and modernized life for more than 125 years with a legacy of invention. They invest in the experience that homeowners have with their products. When people buy from GE, they don’t just get an appliance, they become a member of the General Electric family, a family that is there for one another for the life of the product.
Calhoun Construction serves as a Trade Contractor performing ongoing maintenance to the Louisville facility.
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Year Completed: Ongoing
Project Location: Louisville, KY
Contract Type: Trade Contractor