Walton Construction St. Louis operations manager Tom Kaiman of Chesterfield, Missouri has been chosen as one of 40 young professionals nationwide to receive the Building Design+Construction’s third annual “40 Under 40” award.

The honor is bestowed to young professionals in the design and construction industry. The editors described the winners as the “next generation of leadership.”

Currently, Kaiman supervises a 40-person team working on 11 projects in three states with a total construction value of more than $100 million. Kaiman is responsible for overseeing design, estimating and budgeting, construction operations and startup.

Kaiman’s early background as an AHL professional hockey player gave him special expertise to work on the $18.5 million St. Peters Rec-Plex Renovation and Expansion project in St. Peters, Missouri, which opened in November 2007. He also worked on the $6 million St. Louis Blues Ice Hockey Practice Facility in Hazelwood, Missouri.

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The Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) has announced its annual call for Project Achievement Award nominations.

The Lambert St. Louis International Airport W1W Airport Expansion was honored last year. Tony Thompson of Kwame Building Group, St. Louis, accepted the award as part of the SPK Team. Other winning projects in 2006 were the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Burbank, CA.

To be eligible, projects, programs or program phases must be completed between June 16, 2006 and June 15, 2007. The competition is open to CMAA members and non-members, and the 2007 awards will be presented on October 9 during the CMAA National Conference & Trade Show in Chicago, Illinois.

Deadline for submissions is Friday, June 15, 2007 at 5:00 pm ET. For more information, visit the CMAA Web site.

Tony Thompson, President and CEO of St. Louis-based Kwame Building Group (KWAME), has been named to the first-ever Midwest Real Estate News “Forty Over 40” list, highlighting excellence in commercial real estate throughout the Midwest.  There are lots of 40 Under 40 lists, so the editor Brian Sutton decided to “recognizes and celebrates expertise and execution rather than youth and potential.”

Midwest Construction magazine has named the Ameristar Conference Center in St. Charles as one of its “Best of 2006” award winning projects in the category of Interior Design/Fitout. Hats off to Walton Construction, the general contractor on the state-of-the-art facility, which was one of only three projects in the St. Louis area to win an award. The Ameristar conference center was completed in September 2006 and includes two ballrooms, five meeting rooms and an executive boardroom providing 19,200 square feet of meeting space.

Kudos to Kwame Building Group of St. Louis for bringing home awards for two of the largest projects in St. Louis history - Busch Stadium and the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport expansion project.

KWAME President Tony Thompson accepted the “Project Achievement Award” award for the Lambert project from the Construction Management Association of America at the CMAA annual conference last month in Tampa.

The $1.059 billion project was managed by the SPK joint venture — a collaboration between Jacobs Engineering (formerly Sverdrup), Parsons Corp. and Kwame Building Group, which led the project team.

KWAME also pulled in two “Best of 2006″ awards from McGraw-Hill’s Midwest Construction magazine, which named the Busch Stadium construction project as “Overall Project of the Year” and the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport expansion project as “Transportation Project of the Year.” Hunt Construction in association with Kwame Building Group served as the design-build contractor on the $270 million Busch Stadium project.