HOK, McCarthy Chosen as Design-Build Team for UCLA Health Neuropsychiatric Hospital Project

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HOK and McCarthy have been selected by UCLA Health to transform the former Olympia Medical Center in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles, California into a neuropsychiatric hospital. The renovation will transform four hospital buildings into a unified care facility for patients experiencing mental and behavioral health challenges. UCLA Health’s inpatient neuropsychiatric program is housed in the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, located within Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on UCLA’s Westwood campus. The move to the Mid-Wilshire location will allow UCLA Health to help address the region’s unmet need for behavioral health services. All 74 inpatient psychiatric beds … Read more

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Stantec to Provide Architecture, Engineering Design Services for New Airport Control Tower in Anchorage

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Stantec was selected by the Federal Aviation Administration to provide architecture and engineering design services for the new airport traffic control tower and terminal radar approach control base building in Anchorage, Alaska. The facility will provide air traffic control for Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, which also includes the Lake Hood Seaplane Base. ANC is the gateway to Alaska and the U.S. with approximately 5.7-million passengers and more than 3 million tons of cargo passing through the airport each year. The airport, including the future ATCT and TRACON, sits on the traditional land of the Dena’ina people. The ATCT serves as … Read more

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Boldt Surpasses 10M Hours Without Lost Time Injury

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The Boldt Company has achieved a safety milestone: logging 10-million hours without a lost time incident. Safety statistics are reported from the company’s jobsites nationwide and represent self-performed work hours across diverse geographies and projects. Leaders credit operational practices that ensure all employees are educated on safe work practices, work crews have appropriate equipment, and frequent jobsite audits uncover potential problems. For 2022, the company established a Total Recordable Incident Rate of less than one. As a comparison, the construction industry average rate is three, which means three injury cases per 100 full-time equivalent workers. The safety professionals identified the … Read more

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Barton Malow Builders Adds Seasoned Construction Executive Dennis Odisho

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Barton Malow has named Dennis Odisho senior business strategy manager for the company’s Tampa, Florida office. In this role, he will lead work acquisition and the development of market strategies, relationship building and growth opportunities for the Tampa Bay area. He brings nearly 25 years of project management experience to the firm, with an emphasis in the construction of healthcare, education and commercial facilities. Odisho has worked most recently as vice president of healthcare for Reno Boyd and previously as vice president of Berglund Construction’s Florida Division, which he established in 2017. Odisho began his construction career after high school … Read more

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ASCC Safety Summit 2022 Wraps Up

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The American Society of Concrete Contractors partnered with the Tilt-Up Concrete Association to hold its second annual Safety Summit Nov. 10-11 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Safety professionals from the concrete construction industry gathered for a safety program focused on safety and health issues impacting the industry. The program featured key-note speaker Mike Schneider, VP, chief people person, Baker Concrete Construction, Monroe, Ohio. Schneider detailed Baker’s adoption and implementation of the Incident and Injury Free safety culture. IIF is a way of life — behavior, beliefs, values, symbols — that are accepted by all in an organization and communicated and imitated … Read more

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