Business Notes

ACCOUNTING

Schneider Downs & Co. was approved by the Public Companies Accounting Oversight Board to audit companies registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

CONSTRUCTION

PWCampbell was awarded a design/build contract by Keystone Savings Bank, located in Bethlehem, Pa., to complete the renovation of its operations center. The O’Hara construction company also received a design/build contract to complete the renovation of the Henry County Bank in Napoleon, Ohio.

Burns & Scalo Roofing Co. received roofing contracts for Leybold Vacuum, Export; Aldi’s Distribution Center, Saxonburg; Buncher Building No. 21, Leetsdale; UPMC, Natrona Heights, and Jefferson Hospital Courtyard.

Dynamic Building Corp. received contracts for the construction of a new retail/commercial building for Alex Enterprises to be located in Squirrel Hill, and for the construction of Village at Sewickley Hills, a $30 million multifamily development in Sewickley.

Hawthorne Partners Inc. has begun construction and development of the Villas on the Green, a ranch condominium adjacent to the Golf Club of Washington in South Strabane Township.

MANUFACTURING

Alcoa Home Exteriors Inc. formed a strategic alliance with Dayton Technologies, a global leader in PVC-U extrusion technology, to develop products for the home exteriors marketplace.

Bloom Engineering opened a 50,000-square-foot manufacturing, distribution, installation and marketing operation in Pittsburgh.

PUBLIC RELATIONS

Stone Software, a Templeton, Calif., software vendor, selected LarsonO’Brien Advertising and Public Relations as its agency of record.

Sewickley Graphics & Design Inc. was been selected to design and produce the 2003 annual report for Valley Care Association.

TECHNOLOGY

Nature’s Best, a wholesaler/retailer in the natural products industry, has installed a voice-directed distribution system from Vocollect Inc. at its Brea, Calif., warehouse.