b'QUALITY RUNS IN GARY HORSTMANNS BLOODKORTE|YEAR IN REVIEWHorstmann Construction Company One example sticks out: On a job near These days, Gary is chief family handyman. still boasts 24 nameplates on buildingsSt. Louis, aging windows with bad sealsHis superintendents expertise is how he around Highland, Illinois, and they did it allowed water to run between the paneslassoes the 11 kids who call him grandpa in only five years of operation. Though it and into the wall cavities, resulting inwhile simultaneously building a second was a short-lived family business, it structural damage and dangerous mold.bathroom in his sons house. was the perfect training ground for To keep buildings from soaking, WayneThat job site looks a lot different, but Gary Garys long and successful career as Korte developed a window pan system thatruns it the way he always did.a job site superintendent. channeled trapped rainwater back outside. It was a great feeling any time you putIt worked, but installation of these For me, its just another day. We broke up the your hands on something, put somethingpans required extra care and attention floor, put plumbing under the floor, put an together and walk away from it with afrom subcontractors.ejection pump in, and built him a full bath in finished product, Gary said. his basement, he said. Sure, it was harder, and sure, it took Done the right way, I have to say that.In his 36 years with The Korte Company, Garymore time. But thats how Gary ran hisoversaw construction of almost 50 projects.work. Better.His fingerprints are all over hospitals,And after 36 years, he decided hisdistribution centers and military baseshardhat had enough stickers on it. across the country.Each of these was done right, no exceptions,I came to Korte wanting a job, Garydown to the last piece of hardware on everysaid. Thirty-six years later, I had asingle window.career with a very good company, afamily-oriented company.P_63'