Landau Building Co. continues ongoing renovations of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall. The Civil War Room is being restored.

Local veterans of that war used this room from 1906 to the mid-1930s to hold meetings and to house collections of their flags, books, prints and relics. Landau also will replace the 780 seats in the music hall.

Castcon Stone Inc. was awarded a $500,000 contract to produce precast concrete stairs and landings for use in the new Port Authority Transit Hub Station located beneath the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. Castcon will supply 105 flights of concrete stairs and 36 landings. The final delivery for the project will be made in 2013.

Landau Building Co. completed a new Cardiac MRI room at UMPC Presbyterian Hospital in Oakland.

Burns & Scalo Roofing was awarded roofing contracts for Okonite, Findlay; Appliance Dealers Cooperative, Imperial; and Nova Chemical, Moon.

The Spina Bifida Association of Western Pennsylvania said its camping and retreat program will now be known as FireFly Camps and Retreats. C.H. Lynch Jr., executive director of the SBAWP, said the association was planning to offer more of its services outside of the Wexford campus.

Carbis Walker LLP is the newest member of The Builders Association of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania.

4CTechnologies and its new GIS division, 4CGeoWorks, obtained business partner status with ESRI, a geographic information system technology firm.

PPG Industries' architectural glass business won a 2009 Pro-Comm Award of Excellence from the Business Marketing Association. The company's "Greening of Architectural Glass" campaign was recognized by a panel of national marketing experts for its exceptional product positioning and brand development. The award was shared by five Pittsburgh-based advertising, digital marketing, graphic design, marketing communications and public relations firms: Brunner, Mullen, Pipitone Group, Vance Wright Adams & Associates, and Yearick-Millea. The national BMA Pro-Comm Awards recognize excellence in business-to-business marketing and communications.

J. Victor Conrad, founder of Pinnacle Financial Strategies, an independent wealth management firm, was named a 2009 Five Star: Best in Client Satisfaction Wealth Manager by Crescendo Business Services.

The Allegheny Chapter of the CPCU Society (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters) qualified for the Gold level of the Society's 2008-2009 Circle of Excellence Recognition Program. The program recognizes chapters for their efforts to achieve specific benchmarks in chapter performance.

Attorney James W. Carroll Jr., partner, Rothman Gordon P.C., was elected a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, the highest recognition by colleagues of sustained outstanding performance in the profession, exemplifying integrity, dedication and excellence.