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Uniontown Firm wins awards
Benatec Associates, an engineering firm headquartered in New Cumberland, and with an office in Uniontown, was the recipient of the 2007 Project of the Year Award presented by the Central PA Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers for the successful conversion of Paxton Street in Swatara Township from one-way to two-way traffic. As the prime design professional, Benatec Associates coordinated all aspects of the project with the growing TecPort Business Center, as well as completed roadway improvement plans, right-of-way documents, and the final construction package.
Benatec Associates, an engineering firm headquartered in New Cumberland and Uniontown, was recognized at the 2007 Diamond Awards banquet for their engineering excellence in Two-Way Paxton Street in Dauphin County, S.R. 4008 Bridge Replacement in Adams County and the Findlay connector, part of the Mon-Valley Expressway project in western Pennsylvania.
Uniontown
Army awards contract
BAE Systems has received a $16 million contract from the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command for the remanufacture and upgrade of eight Bradley Combat Systems vehicles to the most advanced Bradley configuration.
BAE Systems, working through its public-private partnership with Red River Army Depot (RRAD), will remanufacture and upgrade the vehicles to the A3 standard. Initial disassembly and subsystem rebuild will be performed at RRAD, final disassembly and structural modifications will be completed by BAE Systems in Uniontown, and final assembly, integration and test will be conducted at the company’s facility in York. The vehicles will be delivered by May 31, 2009.
Including a $1.16 billion contract for the remanufacture and upgrade of 610 Bradley combat systems from the U.S. Army awarded in November 2006, and an additional set of contracts in January worth $412 million, the total value of contracts awarded to BAE Systems for Bradley work is approximately $3.5 billion for fiscal years 2005 – 2007. About 620 Bradley A3 vehicles have been delivered against the Army’s requirement for more than 2,000 total Bradley A3s planned for the fleet, a BAE spokesman said.
McHenry, Md.
Selling online class planned
A three session class on “Buying and Selling on E-Bay” will be offered on Thursdays beginning March 1 and continuing through March 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Garrett College, McHenry, Md. The class will help participants learn how to buy and sell online, create attention-getting titles, upload photos of goods, safeguard financial transactions online and turn long forgotten items into cash.
For more information or to register, persons may contact Krista Wilt at 301-387-3069 or via e-mail at kwilt@garrettcollege.edu. The class is an offering of the Continuing Education and Workforce Development Division of Garrett College.
Pittsburgh
SCORE schedules workshop
SCORE will present a Small Business Basics Workshop on March 17 from 8 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. at Point Park University, Boulevard of the Allies and Third Avenue in the JVH Theater on the second floor, downtown Pittsburgh.
The workshop is designed to help people succeed in starting a new business and in growing an existing small business. All presentations are made by experienced business planners, lawyers, certified public accountants and bank loan officers. The agenda includes: business plan development, market analysis, record keeping, taxes, financial analysis and information on how to get a small business loan. There is a fee that includes a continental breakfast, which will be served at 7:30 a.m. Reduced rates are available for group registrations. Free, one-on-one confidential counseling by a SCORE counselor will be available immediately following the workshop.
For more information, call SCORE at 412-395-6560, extension 130 or 131 or visit SCORE at www.scorepittsburgh.com