b'For 36 years, Dan Scott treated the construction sites he led like performance halls.The job was music. The workerswere musicians.Dan conducted the orchestra.Dan, the grandson of a very particular cabinet maker, became a superintendent after just one year working for RalphKorte. It was his canny way of knowingwhat needed to happen and when.Sometimes the beauty of music isnt the notes you hear, but the placement of the empty spaces between notes, Dan says.Spoken like a true artist.Which he isa guitaristand a member of the rock band Effic which formed in the early 1970s. KORTE|YEAR IN REVIEW DAN SCOTTDan spent those years on the road. Six nights a week throughout the MidwestDAN SCOTThauling bandmates and gear in a van that barely ran; being hustled offstage more than once due to bomb scares; getting stranded on a foggy night somewhere near INNOVATION,Carbondale, Illinois; some roadie hitting a pothole on the highway, stopping that old van once and for allif you want to know THEN ANDmore about the 70s, go find Dan.Hell be in his garden, tending what grows NOW there with the same mastery he brought to job sites for the better part of four decades.The baton still in his hand. The song and its empty spaces still stuckin his head.Ralph Kortes first big job was a 60-by-40The industry looks a lot different todayHire the smartest people. Think as hard as machine shed he built on Ernie Troboughscompared to when we first went intoyou work. Thats how you succeed.farm near Hillsboro, Illinois in 1959.business 63 years ago. The tools and technology at our disposal are sometimesAnd thats why we carry Ralphs mindset Ralph always tried to find the best way. Itsmind-bending. The spaces we deliver arewith us everywhere we go.what he did then, and its what his companyincredibly complex.still does now. Its what any good carpenterIts what any good carpenter would do.would do, he says.But in that complexity resides a stunning simplicity. Use the tools at your disposal. P_23 P_24'