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Dakota and its friends and clients celebrated
Dakota’s
15th year anniversary on
the
17th of January 2009. Dakota
celebrated its 15th anniversary with close to 100 attendees, including
employees, clients, friends and major subcontractors.
Dakota’s president, Wenbin Yuan, played solo with his newly formed Blue
Grass band. World famous researcher
Dr. Shijiang Li did a presentation on “What Is This Thing Called Happiness?”
Everyone was either impressed by the band, or by Dr, Li’s vivid
scientific presentation of human brain’s MRI images on its pursuit of
”Happiness” and what are the basic elements that make the brain happy.
Interested persons can request an abstract or request a
Youtube link.
Through its 15 years of hard work, Dakota delivered over $50m worth of
services to a wide range of clients in construction, engineering and GIS related
services. Wenbin thanked Dakota’s
employees, clients, subcontractors and former employees for their dedication to
Dakota’s success.
Dakota
and its joint Venture Kepa Services were
awarded
a $3.5m Navy and Army Joint Forces Design-Build contract at Sioux Falls, SD.
After
providing a detailed
design concept and a competitive pricing with our teaming partners: Gil Hougan
and Miller Sellers, our team won the challenging design-build project.
Under the leadership of Mike Johnson, this project is getting close to
finishing its design phase.
Dakota Awarded Best of 2007 by McGraw-Hill
After
finishing all of the liner work for a $360M Bayshore Town Center project in
2007, Dakota was awarded as Best of 2007 of Midwest Construction by McGraw Hill
construction as one of the few elite in the Midwest.
Dakota continued its success in
performing several more similar types of work for Charter Wire and Derse sites
in Milwaukee and several operating and closed landfill sites.
Dakota
and its teaming partner CSI successfully
completed a $5.0M A.C.O.E.
Ft. McCoy
Design
and Build Project on August 15th
Dakota was
awarded a $5.0M Army Corp of Engineers military housing project in 2007 and
completed the new housing portion successfully on time with its dedicated crew
in severely adverse weather conditions and overcame 100 year storm that washed
our base twice.
Dakota was
awarded a Chicago
$10m
GSA IDIQ
contract
Dakota was
awarded
a $10.0M contract
for the
GSA Chicago IDIQ renovation
project.
Dakota is looking for some additional talented construction managers and
quality control officers who are familiar with federal projects in
the Chicago area for the next five years.
Dakota
ranked among top 15 largest minority contractors in the state of Wisconsin base
its 2007 sales.
Dakota was
ranked in the
past five consecutive years as one of the top minority firms in the state of
Wisconsin by the Business Journal.
Dakota ranked top ten largest minority contractors in the state.
Dakota hired Tom Marach
with 30 years of landfill and earthwork construction experiences
Dakota
hired Tom Marach to expand Dakota's landfill and earthwork services. Tom has
worked on landfill construction and survey engineering for the past 30 some
years for Waste Management, Veolia and several other engineering companies in
Wisconsin. Tom recently joined
Dakota to become Dakota's project manager and superintendent.
Tom will also be our HR manager responsible for recruiting talented
professionals in the coming years.
Dakota completed two
methane control projects for Menomonee River Valley development projects in
Milwaukee under MSI and Hunzinger Construction
Dakota has
successfully completed another two large-scale methane control projects
in
the Menomonee Valley under Hunzinger and MSI, further expanding our liner
installation and grading work capabilities.
Dakota praised for USDA Forest Services
Dakota was
highly praised for its completion of an $800,000 window and siding replacement
project for USDA Forest Services
in
Deleware, OH. Congratulations to Project Manager Paul Herbert and his crew.
Dakota
completed two UST removal and new UST installation projects for WE Energies
Dakota
with its competitive advantage and past performance won two contracts from WE
Energies to install underground storage tanks in two locations. Both
USTs were installed to WE Energies satisfaction on time and within budget.
Todd Ormiston and Rick Kormanik led the effort to get them done in time.
Dakota CEO, Wenbin
Yuan co-authored a History book of Milwaukee recently
A
history book,
“Chinese Milwaukee”, was published by
Arcadia Publishing Company and
is
being
sold
at all major bookstores.
The book was co-authored by David Holmes and Dakota CEO,
Wenbin Yuan. Both Dave and Wenbin were
interviewed by PBS TV that was aired in TV programs in November 2008.
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