Technology, sustainability and leaving your mark By Chris Schmidt In this issue, Construction Superintendent talks with Lynn Walker, a superintendent at  Brasfield & Gorrie with nearly 30 years of experience in the industry. Over the course of his career, Walker has managed 4.2-million self-performed man hours. Here he gives insight into the changes he’s seen in the past three decades, recent challenges, such as the ones faced on the $184-million Omni Nashville Hotel in Tennessee and how he envisions the future role of the superintendent. (Q) How did your career in the construction industry and your path to superintendent begin? […]

MT. VERNON, Iowa — The Tilt-Up Concrete Association recognized the winners of the Alphonse J. Engelman safety awards during TCA’s Annual Convention on Sept. 30 in Houston, Texas. The Alphonse J. Engelman Safety Awards Program honors Al Engelman, a TCA past president and board member, as well as a long-time supporter of the tilt-up industry. Engelman helped introduce this industry awards program that now bears his name. Developed to enhance the TCA’s overall mission to improve the industry through recognition and education, this program emphasizes the safety commitment and achievement throughout the membership. In 2007, this program was renamed “The […]

By Brian Thomas and Vi Nguyen More construction firms are investing in technology tools to ensure a safe environment for employees and partners. In California, Skanska USA is putting jobsite safety in the palm of its executives” hands with a new app. The company developed an electronic report using the iAuditor app to enhance jobsite safety and reinforce accountability and safety practices. Known as the executive site safety visit, or ESSV, app, it is used by executives to perform site safety inspections on jobsites such as the Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s San Carlos Center and the Regional Medical Center in […]

Phoenix, Ariz. — The Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health Consultation Department awarded McCarthy Building Companies with top safety designation, naming the $161-million Banner Estrella Hospital expansion a “STAR Site” through the state’s Construction Voluntary Protection Program. ADOSH representatives conducted an audit of safety and health management systems and practices at the six-story, 279,000-square-foot tower project. The expansion project, which is set to open to patients in March 2014, also contains additional obstetrical suites, additional neonatal intensive care unit capacity, new cardiac catheterization labs and a new endoscopy suite. The Banner Estrella Hospital tower expansion is the only hospital […]