Case Study Reveals Rare Safety and Health Insights Unique to Large-Scale Construction Projects ITASCA, Ill., — The National Safety Council today released a special edition of its Journal of Safety Research focused on construction. The special issue includes a research-based case study sharing lessons learned from eight tragic deaths that occurred within 18 months in 2008. These events occurred at the largest privately owned, commercial construction project in U.S. history, the CityCenter and Cosmopolitan Towers in Las Vegas. Upon completion of safety needs assessment surveys conducted at the worksites, four recommendations for management were compiled: General contractors need to demonstrate … Read more
Union Ironworkers Raise the Bar with Continuous Training, Competitions, and New OSHA Relationship
Iron Workers Union reinforces skills development, safety to ensure its ironworkers are ready to meet the construction demands of industry rebound. AUSTIN, Texas — While U.S. industries struggle to rebuild, today’s union ironworkers are preparing to lead the next wave of new business construction. That’s because amidst the economic challenges of the past several years the Iron Workers International Union (www.ironworkers.org) — teaming with the Ironworker Management Progressive Action Cooperative Trust (IMPACT) and the Ironworkers National Training Fund (www.ironworkers.org/organization/Apprenticeship.aspx) — has invested heavily in worksite-ready training programs for union ironworkers. In March, the Iron Workers Union announced an unprecedented … Read more
Hardin Construction Awarded Second Major Project At Medical Center Hospital In Odessa, Texas
ATLANTA, GA – For the second time within a year, Hardin Construction Company, LLC has broken ground on a new project for Medical Center Hospital (MCH) in Odessa, Texas. MCH selected Hardin Construction to build a two-floor vertical expansion of the hospital’s Women’s Center, including a new neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and expansion of the hospital’s maternity ward. The project, valued at $28.9 million, also includes demolishing a portion of the existing central energy plant and constructing a new central mechanical plant, to include road and parking lot repaving and a new playground area. The project recently got underway … Read more
Reno Contracting Construction Trailer Achieves LEED Certification
Unique Green Jobsite Trailer Features Recycled Materials and Energy Efficiency Systems SAN DIEGO — Reno Contracting, announced another first today with the LEED certification of a Job Site Construction Trailer. This is the first and only structure of its kind to achieve such a rating. The trailer serves as the operations offices for the Reno on-site team, and is presently located on a jobsite in Anaheim. The trailer has achieved certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED for New Construction Version 2.2. LEED is the nation’s preeminent program for the design, construction and operation of high performance green … Read more
Raising Energy Efficiency Highlighted at ASHRAE Meeting
ATLANTA, Ga. — Raising efficiency to new levels was the focus of the ASHRAE 2010 Annual Conference held in Albuquerque, N.M. Highlights of the meeting included ASHRAE's receipt of ENERGY STAR for its Headquarters in Atlanta, celebration of the 35th anniversary of publication of the energy conservation standard now known as Standard 90.1 and an update on the ASHRAE Building Energy Quotient program. Some 1,456 attendees took part in the conference held June 26-30 in Albuquerque. A highlight of the meeting was induction of the Society's first female president, Lynn G. Bellenger, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, partner, Pathfinder Engineers & Architects, … Read more