Milton District Hospital Expansion Case Study for Design-Build Excellence

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PCL Constructors Canada Inc. has achieved final completion on the Milton District Hospital expansion project. The project achieved substantial completion in April 2017 and Halton Healthcare began providing patient care in the new space in October. Ensuring the existing Milton District Hospital could continue to serve the community during construction was key to the success of the expansion, which was built to meet the increasing care needs of one of Canada’s fastest-growing communities, and to accommodate new technology. Valued at $512 million, the expansion adds 330,000 square feet of space to the existing 125,000-square-foot hospital and features: ​Expanded emergency and surgical … Read more

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A Chat with Tom Arrington, General Superintendent at JE Dunn Construction

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Respect, retention and doing it right the first time By Chris Maday Schmidt Tom Arrington serves as general superintendent – JE Dunn Construction – East Region. He has a wide variety of project experience, with a focus on large-scale, complicated projects. His market sector expertise includes commercial, educational, mission critical and advanced manufacturing. A 39-year veteran of the construction industry, Arrington has been with JE Dunn for more than a decade. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Building Construction from the Georgia Institute of Technology and is OSHA 30-hour and CPR trained. Join Construction Superintendent as Arrington shares his … Read more

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Hard Hat Heroes Wins CURT Award

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NCCER’s Hard Hat Heroes Credentialing Portal won a 2017 Construction Users Roundtable Workforce Development Award. CURT presented the award at its 2017 Awards of Excellence Celebration in November. CURT founded the Workforce Development Awards to recognize companies and organizations for extraordinary, exemplary and innovative recruitment, training and education programs, which encourage people to pursue careers in construction. The Build Your Future military initiative, Hard Hat Heroes, provides a credentialing portal as a way for veterans to receive NCCER credentials for skills and training they received while in the service. Today, there are over 70 task alignments available with more scheduled … Read more

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Turner Construction Company Completes Build-Out of Schneider Electric’s New Regional Office

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  Turner Construction Company’s Special Projects Division in Nashville, Tennessee has completed the build-out of Schneider Electric’s new southeast regional office in Cool Springs, which will consolidate several of its existing Middle Tennessee locations under one roof. Schneider’s new 150,000-square-foot office space in the Two Franklin Park building occupies floors 1, 4, 6, 7 and 8, with additional renovation on floor 5 in preparation for future expansion. Today, more than 800 Nashville-area employees work in the space. Construction began in April on the $11.2-million project, designed and engineered by Gresham Smith & Partners. The state-of-the-art, virtually wireless regional office includes … Read more

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Deepening Labor Struggle Driving Future of Construction

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The construction labor shortage continues to deepen nationally, evident by a historically low unemployment rate of 4.5 percent. There has been minimal growth in the workforce over the last nine months, with no sign of an increase. Because of this, industry professionals can expect project timelines to be extended, wages to increase at a faster rate and all eyes focused on construction technology to offset these challenges. Despite this, the industry continued to hit a mature stage of economic expansion in the third quarter, according to a new report from JLL that tracks national construction trends. Construction spending was up … Read more

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