Flagship Mercyhealth Hospital Houses Only State-Designated Children’s Hospital in Northern Illinois

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Mortenson has reached completion of Mercyhealth’s Javon Bea Hospital and Physician Clinic–Riverside, a $505-million regional tertiary specialty women and children’s hospital, adult hospital and multi-specialty clinic in Rockford, Illinois, marking the end of the largest construction project in the city’s history. The new facility, which houses the only state-designated children’s hospital in northern Illinois, and a regional perinatal center with 52-bed level III (highest level) neonatal intensive care unit, opened to patients in January. Mortenson prioritized hiring locally and women and minority representation on the jobsite, with more than 90 percent of craft workers living within 49 miles of the … Read more

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Topping-Out Ceremony Marks Milestone for The Q Transformation

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A major construction milestone in The Q Transformation to update and modernize the 25-year–old publicly owned Quicken Loans Arena was celebrated with a special topping-out ceremony to hoist the project’s final steel beam into place atop of the arena, located in Cleveland, Ohio. General contractor on the project is Whiting Turner. The topping out culminates almost a year of structural steel work on the project, which began in February 2018. More than 4,750 pieces of steel, equivalent to 1,229 tons, have been installed to form the frame of the arena’s new north atrium and south entrance. The new street-facing exterior … Read more

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Construction of Second Underground Proton Therapy Vault at Siteman Cancer Center Affords Complexity, Challenges

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Kadean Construction has begun building a 48,000-cubic-foot, underground concrete vault to house a 120 ton cyclotron for Siteman Cancer Center’s second proton treatment facility in St. Louis, Missouri. The vault is being built beneath a parking garage on the Washington University Medical Campus, which also includes Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital, in the city’s Central West End. When completed in mid-to-late 2019, the 40-foot-deep vault will house the massive cyclotron, which will produce a focused beam of isolated protons for “pencil-beam scanning,” an advanced form of radiation therapy for patients treated at the S. Lee Kling Proton Therapy … Read more

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John Deere Upgrades Large-Frame G-Series with EH Boom Performance Package

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Improving its popular G-Series large-frame skid steers and compact track loaders, John Deere continues to provide jobsite solutions with the addition of the EH Boom Performance Package. This productivity-boosting feature is available as a factory-installed option on the 330G and 332G skid steers, and the 331G and 333G compact track loaders. The EH Boom Performance Package offers several features to help trim cycle times, speed production and improve jobsite awareness by automating repetitive functions. The electronic self-level feature automatically keeps the bucket, pallet forks or attachment level so the operator does not need to make adjustments when raising or lowering … Read more

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Pure Safety Group Launches Next-Gen Harnesses

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Pure Safety Group has unveiled its Guardian Fall Protection S1 safety harness. The S1 is the first in a series of innovative new harnesses designed with three levels of features for various real-life work scenarios. All harnesses meet OSHA standards, exceed ANSI standards and are CSA certified. The S1 harness is designed with water-resistant contrasting core webbing, label cover and impact indicators for easy inspection, dual lanyard keepers and durable rubber web keepers. The S1 features steel hardware that includes a three-bar torso adjustment for quick and proper fitting, various connection point options for use in multiple applications and a … Read more

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