Granger Construction, Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council, Contractors and MIOSHA Sign Partnership

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Granger Construction Company, the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Greater Detroit Building Trades Council and the Partnering Contractors recently signed a formal partnership to protect workers during the renovation of the 1956 mechanical engineering laboratory—classroom building, located on U-M's North Campus in Ann Arbor. The facility will receive approximately 141,000 square feet of major infrastructure, programmatic instructional and administrative space improvements. The building will be occupied during the renovation process, which will require work to occur in a ten phase construction plan that eliminates exposure to hazards and minimizes disruption … Read more

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OSHA Helps Workers, Employers Beat the Heat with Smart Phone App, Other Resources

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Every year, dozens of workers are killed by heat, and thousands more experience heat-related illnesses. With summer heat on the rise across the nation, workers and employers are turning to OSHA’s Heat Safety Tool for help staying safe in the heat. In all, more than 148,000 users have downloaded this life-saving app since its launch in August 2011. As temperatures soared well past 100 degrees in Phoenix, Arizona on July 1, OSHA staff joined representatives from the Phoenix City Council, Clear Channel Outdoor, Lamar Advertising, Christy Signs, the American Society of Safety Engineers and the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety … Read more

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NoteVault Makes Top Industry List for Third Consecutive Year

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NoteVault has been included in Constructech magazine’s sixth annual Constructech 50 list. NoteVault, a provider of voice-to-text-based mobile reporting solutions for the commercial construction industry, enables superintendents to quickly and easily report project activity from the field using nothing but their voice and their mobile phone. This information is transcribed and made available through email or a web-based interface. The company was selected for the third straight year based on its ongoing customer satisfaction and growth, product and service offerings and its outreach and educational efforts in the industry. “We’re honored to be listed among the top technology providers in … Read more

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Recent Fatalities Serve as Reminder to Protect Workers from Demolition Hazards

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — On June 20, a construction worker taking down an old Blockbuster Video building in New Jersey was trapped and killed when the last standing wall of a building under demolition collapsed on top of him. Six months earlier, a 25-year-old construction worker in Chicago, Illinois was struck and killed by pieces of falling concrete while conducting renovations on a shopping mall. These tragedies follow the June 5, 2013, collapse of a four-story building undergoing demolition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that killed six people and injured 14. These deaths could have been prevented. To help prevent these tragedies and … Read more

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Rogers-O’Brien Opens Houston Office Led by Local Construction Executive

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  A Texas general contractor with offices in Dallas and Austin, Rogers-O’Brien has reinforced its commitment to Southeast Texas by opening a Houston office led by Regional Vice President Gregg Lynch. <!—more—>Lynch’s 27 years of experience managing teams, offices and regions for a national contractor includes 10 years in Houston, where he expanded a $40-million Houston office into a regional practice with Dallas and Austin offices while approaching $400 million in annual revenues. Projects successfully delivered under his watch covered a broad spectrum of hospital, higher education, corporate, municipal, high-rise residential and hotel facilities. Prior to relocating to Houston, he … Read more

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