Sundt Adds Staff in El Paso to Support Recent Growth in Region

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EL PASO, Texas – To support the company’s recent growth in the region, Sundt Construction, Inc. has added project engineer Mike Dominguez, Jr. and field superintendents Dan Norton, Jesus Rivera and Enrique Espalin to its El Paso, Texas team. The general contractor has been expanding in the state for several years, and Texas now accounts for 25 percent of the company’s work. Norton, an industry veteran of more than 30 years, joins the team constructing and renovating several high-rise residential communities for the Housing Authority of El Paso. His extensive background in residential construction will play a major role in … Read more

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Peters Brings Industry Perspective to Construction Safety Advisory Committee

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Andy Peters, AECOM’s senior vice president and chief safety officer, has been appointed to the United States Department of Labor’s Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health. Peters will join a 15-member body that advises Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez on ways to improve workplace safety and health in the construction industry, as well as on related policy matters. Peters has helped to greatly enhance the culture of safety at AECOM. He has established programs such as “Safety for Life” and “Culture of Caring,’’ which include procedures aimed at helping AECOM meet its goal of … Read more

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James Merritt Named Kadean Construction Superintendent

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ST. LOUIS, Mo. – James Merritt has been named construction superintendent by Kadean Construction Company. Merritt, of St. Charles, Missouri, has more than 25 years of construction supervision experience, while also focusing on workplace safety, quality workmanship and meeting completion deadlines. His assignments range from local bridge work to $80-million projects with as many as 300 construction workers onsite. Merritt will immediately serve as co-superintendent on Kadean’s interior build-out of the new Amazon facility at the Lakeview Commerce Center in Edwardsville, Illinois. He’s serving as co-superintendent with Kadean’s Benj Meyer due to the amount of extra coordination required on the … Read more

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A Chat with Don DeNardo, Executive VP and Director of Field Operations for Lendlease

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Change, challenges and the ideal construction project by Chris Maday Schmidt A construction industry veteran with 44 years of experience, Don DeNardo has worked with Lendlease since 1989, most recently as executive vice president, director of field operations. Prior to this, he worked as a superintendent for over four decades in New York City. Join Construction Superintendent as DeNardo shares his insights from working as a superintendent, to overseeing field operations. (Q) What is the biggest change you’ve encountered in the past four decades as far as workforce—e.g., job preparedness, education/training, etc.? The biggest change I have encountered in my … Read more

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OSHA Appoints New Director for its Construction Directorate

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Dr. David Michaels has selected Dean McKenzie as the new director of the agency’s directorate of construction. McKenzie served as director of OSHA’s Office of Construction Services from 2012-13, then became the deputy director in 2013, and has been the acting director since January of this year. With more than 40 years of experience in the field of construction, McKenzie has an exceptional understanding of the safety and health issues facing the industry. He started out in the steel mills of Gary, Indiana as a journeyman millwright in … Read more

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