Improving Worker Safety and Health in the Building Industry

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CPWR’s Exposure Control Database can help anticipate and control worker exposures to silica, welding fumes, lead and noise. This free online tool allows users to enter a construction task, proposed controls and other variables and obtain a predicted exposure level based on exposure data from trusted sources. A recorded webinar on the database will walk you through its features. January 2019 marks two years since CPWR’s Foundations for Safety Leadership training module was deemed worthy by OSHA to be used as an official elective for the OSHA 30-hour outreach training curriculum. FSL is a free, interactive training curriculum that instructors … Read more

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CPB Contractors Wins $116M Coffs Harbour Health Expansion Main Works

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CPB Contractors has been awarded the Harbour Health Campus expansion main works, which will include a new five-story clinical services building located in New South Wales, Australia. The project is expected to generate revenue of approximately $116 million to CPB. Construction is expected to commence in April 2019 and conclude by the end of 2021. The Coffs Harbour Hospital expansion main works will include: Construction of a new five-story clinical services building with a rooftop helicopter landing site, ICU and surgical, maternity and pediatric inpatient units New connections to the existing hospital building at ground and first-floor levels Refurbishment of … Read more

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Hekla Tower La Défense Under Construction

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Hines and AG Real Estate have appointed Bateg (VINCI Construction France) to build the Hekla tower located in Paris, France. The 220-meter-tall skyscraper will boast six underground levels, a 48-story superstructure, a two-story-high entrance hall and a tree-planted roof terrace. This new office tower, with a surface area of approximately 80,000 square meters, forms part of a project to develop the Rose de Cherbourg area in the heart of the La Défense business district, and will benefit from a landscaped park (1.3 hectares) and a planted walkway above the circular highway. Its façade, composed of 14 kilometers of shading elements, … Read more

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Balfour Beatty, Gammon Construction JV Wins Luxury Mixed-Use Scheme in Hong Kong

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Balfour Beatty and its Far East joint venture, Gammon Construction, have been awarded the Homantin luxury residential project by Gold Topmont Limited. The project, worth HK$2.9 billion (c. £289 million), will become an iconic landmark in the Homantin residential area in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The project involves the construction of six residential towers, a clubhouse, outdoor swimming pool and a two-level basement with carpark areas. To ensure the project’s safe and efficient delivery, Gammon will deploy a wide range of innovative technologies including 3D scanning for data collection, which will ensure an accurate and swift survey process, as well as … Read more

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Transforming Jobsites to Improve Workers’ Health & Well-Being

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By Susan Heinking and Brandon Smrz According to a recent report from integrated real estate services firm Stok, “The Financial Case for High Performance Buildings,” the business case for high-performance buildings traditionally cites energy savings and increased asset value as the most appealing incentives. But another — and arguably greater — form of enhanced value creation that comes through HPBs is rarely discussed: HPBs benefit the people who occupy them, which in turn produce significant positive impacts on a company’s bottom line1.  If this is true for the buildings we construct, what about the jobsite trailers for construction superintendents and … Read more

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