K&S ASSOCIATES OF ST. LOUIS AWARDED $21.1 MILLION CONTRACT TO BUILD TWO SCHOOLS IN ILLINOIS

SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI September 20, 2007 Construction & Building News

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(PRLEAP.COM) St. Louis, Missouri … The Edwardsville Community Unit School District #7 in Edwardsville, Illinois, has awarded a $21.1 million contract to K&S Associates, Inc. of St. Louis to construct two, new 85,000-square-foot elementary schools. Liberty Elementary School will be built in Edwardsville for K - 2nd grades and Glenn Crossing School will be built in nearby Glen Carbon for 3rd - 5th grades. The District is located about 27 miles northeast of St. Louis.

Identical in their design and construction components, each new school will feature a state-of-the-art gymnasium, classrooms, kitchen and cafeteria, multi-media area, administrative and office space, as well as playgrounds. Project completion for both schools is scheduled for summer 2008.

Thomas J. Kraska, President of K&S Associates, said, “We are very pleased to work with Superintendent Dr. Ed Hightower and the entire Edwardsville team to build these two new elementary schools, which will offer first-class facilities for young students in the Edwardsville school district.”

Woolpert, Inc. of Fairview Heights, Illinois, is the project architect and engineer.

K&S Associates, Inc. was founded in 1972. In addition to full-service general contracting, the company manages complete Design/Build projects and provides comprehensive construction management services for building projects in virtually every construction industry sector, including commercial/industrial, healthcare, military support, government, education, recreational and ecclesiastical.

K&S Associates, Inc. headquarters are at 516 Hanley Industrial Court, St. Louis, Missouri 63144-1902.

For more information, please call Paul D. Sharkey, CFM, Director of Pre-Construction Services & Facilities, K&S Associates, Inc., at 314.647.3535 or visit the website www.ksgcstl.com.

Media relations contact for K&S Associates, Inc.: Jeff Dunlap at 314.993.6925.

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