CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — White Construction Group, a Colorado-based commercial general construction firm, received the 2010 Gold STEP Award and the 2010 Outstanding Safety Program by the Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. The Gold STEP, Safety Training and Evaluation Process, is a contractor-developed program that provides an objective method to analyze and help improve safety and loss prevention programs. The firm has received the STEP Safety Award numerous times in its 25-year history. This year, White Construction Group was also recognized with the 2010 Outstanding Safety Program for General Contractors under 150,000 man hours. “We"re pleased to be recognized again … Read more

ST. PAUL, Va. — A convoy bringing a 400-ton component to Dominion’s Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center project arrived on the construction site early this morning. The arrival of the stator — the largest stationary component of the new electric generator — marks a major milestone in the construction of the 585-megawatt power station. Construction began in June 2008 and is approximately 65 percent complete. The station is on schedule to begin generating electricity commercially in the summer of 2012. The $1.8 billion power station will produce enough electricity to power 146,000 typical homes at peak demand. The project is … Read more

VALPARAISO, Ind. — Six hundred construction jobs could be created over the next two years with the construction of the new Porter hospital main campus, Porter Health System CEO Jonathan Nalli said Thursday.   Those jobs could support a payroll between $60 million and $65 million, Nalli said. Beyond being a replacement hospital, the new facility at the northwest corner of Ind. 49 and U.S. 6 in Liberty Township could spur the economy and help move Northwest Indiana out of the recession, he said. Without specifying a number, Nalli said new jobs would also be created by the need to … Read more