Balfour Beatty Employees Join 350 Volunteers for 10th Annual Sharefest Workday

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More than 350 volunteers joined Balfour Beatty Construction May 4, to repair and spruce up seven schools in the Redondo, Torrance, Culver City and Wiseburn School Districts as part of Los Angeles County's 10th Annual Sharefest Workday. An estimated $200,000 in school improvements were made — all at no cost to the schools — by Balfour Beatty Construction employees, contractors, vendors, school staff, students and community members. This is the fourth year the company has supported the community activity, and the first year that additional financial support was provided through Balfour Beatty Construction/Sharefest's 1st annual golf tournament, which helped to […]

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OSHA Launches Initiative to Protect Temporary Workers

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced an initiative to further protect temporary employees from workplace hazards. The announcement was made during a program at the department's headquarters marking Workers" Memorial Day — an annual observance to honor workers who have died on the job and renew a commitment to making work sites across the country safer. OSHA sent a memorandum to the agency's regional administrators directing field inspectors to assess whether employers who use temporary workers are complying with their responsibilities under the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Inspectors will use a […]

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Manhattan Construction Completes Historic Church Building Project

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DALLAS, Texas — Manhattan Construction has completed First Baptist Dallas’s landmark campus in downtown Dallas, Texas. The 500,000-square-foot facility includes a 3,000-seat worship center and sanctuary, with a 150-foot-wide viewing screen spanning two-thirds of the room and seven high-definition projectors making it one of the largest screens in any church in the world. A glass sky bridge connects the worship center to the five-story Horner Family Center, featuring children’s and youth classrooms, a gymnasium, three age-appropriate indoor playgrounds and a seven-story parking garage. In addition, a high-impact cross-tower and fountain are surrounded by three-quarters of an acre of public community […]

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The American Institute of Architects Selects the 2013 COTE Top Ten Green Projects

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment have selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment. The COTE Top Ten Green Projects program, now in its 17th year, is the profession’s recognition program for sustainable design excellence. The program celebrates projects that are the result of a thoroughly integrated approach to architecture, natural systems and technology. They make a positive contribution to their communities, improve comfort for building occupants and reduce environmental impacts through strategies such as reuse of existing structures, connection to […]

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McCarthy Tops Out Concrete Construction for J. Craig Venter Institute on UCSD Campus

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SAN DIEGO, Calif. — McCarthy has recently topped off the last concrete pour for the J. Craig Venter Institute on The University California, San Diego  campus. Completion is slated for later this year. Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects has designed he three-story, 45,000-square-foot laboratory facility. Expected to be the most environmentally friendly and only “net-zero energy” biological laboratory in the world, the new $39-million J. Craig Venter Institute will support approximately 125 scientists and other staff in their mission to further the institute’s goals in genomic research and policy. The location of the facility, on land leased from UCSD at the […]

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