St. Louis, Mo., May 19, 2010 – S. M. Wilson & Co. has hired Tom Kaiman, LEED AP, to lead a new business group focused on managing and expanding the company’s federal government and military construction business. 

Kaiman joins S. M. Wilson as a Project Executive. He was previously Vice President of Operations for Walton Construction Company in St. Louis.

S. M. Wilson has been handling a growing number of construction projects for the federal government in recent years. The firm currently has more than $44 million of federal work underway, including a new Digital Training Facility at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., a Laboratory Renovation at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Columbia, Mo., and a new design-build Dining Facility for the Corps of Engineers at Camp Atterbury, Indiana.

“Tom is stepping in to lead our staff currently working on these projects, and will also lead our efforts to expand this segment of our business,” said Scott Wilson, President of S. M. Wilson. “He will consolidate this work under our new Federal/MILCON business group.” 

Kaiman has ten years of construction management experience. He has led major projects in the military, industrial, retail, education and commercial construction markets. He is accredited as LEED AP by the U. S. Green Building Council, and holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Michigan Technological University.

S. M. Wilson is a full-service construction management, design/build and general contracting firm with headquarters in St. Louis and Rollins Construction Company, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of S. M. Wilson, in Indianapolis. S. M. Wilson is one of the largest general construction and construction management firms in the St. Louis area, and was named a ‘2006 Business of the Year’ by St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay. The company posted $450 million in 2009 revenues, and ranks 140^th in Engineering News-Record’s 2009 list of Top 400 commercial contractors nationwide.

Founded in 1921, the company has built a reputation for high quality of work and outstanding financial and general project management expertise. The company is a proud member of the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis and the Associated Builders and Contractors Heart of America Chapter, as well as the Construction Management Association of America, North America's only organization dedicated exclusively to the interests of professional construction/program management.