Workers continue to make progress underneath Bascom Hill, where they’re using a custom-made borer to excavate a 640-foot-long tunnel to carry utilities. The project is being managed by the state of Wisconsin’s Division of Facilities Development and Management (DFDM), and the machinery was custom-made by Minger Construction of Jordan, Minn. for the project, under contract of J.H. Findorff and Son, the general prime contractor.

The new Poynette elementary school, which will house grades kindergarten through fourth, is estimated to cost $23 million. Also included in the referendum funds is money for security upgrades at Poynette High School and general building improvements district-wide.“It’s the (school district’s) first brand new building since 1963,” Shappell said. “… This community supported the district many times with additions, which have been great, but this is a generational, educational solution that we’re incredibly excited about.”

Associated Bank has started on the first phase of renovations to the Milwaukee Center office tower in the city’s downtown. Working with architecture firm Rinka and construction firm J.H. Findorff & Son Inc., Associated Bank has started updating the 373,000-square-foot tower at 111 E. Kilbourn Ave.

Findorff, a Madison construction company, has hired about 20 people who have been trained with the Urban League through the HIRE program, a county-wide initiative that aims to help people find jobs. Company president Dave Beck-Engel said the specific training “helps set people up for success.”

“The more employers we have participating, the more people we’re going to have employed and the more success we’re going to have as a community,” Beck-Engel said.

D.C. Everest seniors in the Construction Trades course are getting the opportunity of a lifetime thanks to a building expansion at their school. As part of the $60 million referendum that voters approved in April, the schools within the D.C. Everest School District are undergoing a lot of renovations. One of the largest projects is the expansion at the high school because several new classrooms are being added to the building. Findorff is the construction firm overseeing the project.

UnityPoint Health Meriter has expanded its Child and Adolescent Psychiatry program. They’ve doubled the size of the building at 8102 Wellness Way in Madison, which officials say will help children and teens get an extra level of the in-patient care they need. They have yoga, meditation and outdoor walking paths.

Eurofins Madison is excited to announce that it has begun construction on its new facility, which will take place over the next eighteen months with a scheduled opening of spring 2021. The 108,000 square foot facility, with over 400 employees, will be located at 6304 Ronald Reagan Avenue in Madison, WI.

Lakefront has installed kegs that light up on the side of its brewery, dubbing it Kegnado. What looks like an out-of-control keg-stacking issue is an intentional 40-foot-tall art statement at Lakefront Brewery. The installation of kegs and pony kegs arranged at the edge of the brewery at 1872 N. Commerce St. suggests that a tornado ripped through Lakefront’s packaging area, creating a flurry of kegs up the side of the building. It also lights up. At sundown, the brewery will flip a switch to illuminate the tumult of kegs in LED lights.

All it takes is stepping into the atrium entrance of the new performing arts center at Edgewood High School to know what the space means to the students, staff and future arts patrons. The new McKinley Performing Arts Center features state-of-the-art performance spaces and includes a 465-seat theater, classrooms and rehearsal spaces.

Findorff’s Virtual Construction team was recently featured in Milwaukee Magazine’s Faces of Milwaukee.