Hardin Construction Company’s sustainability portfolio includes nearly 20 LEED-certified projects, but none of them has quite lit up the green-o-meter like the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s Green Expansion The Garden’s new visitor center and parking deck received Gold LEED certification. Hardin served as general contractor on project. The Garden’s innovative expansion project earned recognition from the nation’s leading evaluator of environmentally sustainable buildings, and is generating kudos for its abundant environmentally friendly amenities. The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) awarded LEED Gold certification to two elements of the project-a striking new visitor center that captures natural light and features two green … Read more

DENVER, Colo. — Alex S. Palmer & Company announced that Denver’s new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) building project is completed. The Denver-based FBI staff, whose jurisdiction is all of Colorado and Wyoming, is now fully operating in the space. Alex S. Palmer & Company is the developer/owner of the 220,000 gross square-foot office building and 120,000-square-foot adjoining parking garage. The structure’s design and appointments provide a heavy emphasis on security planning and meet all of the required functional and aesthetic goals of the FBI. Located on a 10-acre campus, which formerly served as home to Denver Stapleton Airport, the … Read more

MIDLAND, Mich. — Dow Kokam’s Chief Executive Officer Ravi Shanker was joined by Vice President Joe Biden, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, The Dow Chemical Company Chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris and other dignitaries at a groundbreaking ceremony to commemorate construction of Dow Kokam’s new advanced, large-format battery production facility. The groundbreaking marks the first phase of construction for the high-tech, world-scale manufacturing facility, which will produce affordable lithium-ion batteries to supply the growing electric vehicle (EV) and hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) market. According to Dow Kokam CEO Ravi Shanker, the new facility will enable the company to bring to market … Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. — OSHA announced today that the Severe Violators Enforcement Program directive is effective June 18th. The agency announced in April that it was implementing the program to focus on employers who continually disregard their legal obligations to protect their workers. OSHA’s SVEP focuses enforcement efforts on employers who willfully and repeatedly endanger workers by exposing them to serious hazards. The directive establishes procedures and enforcement actions for the severe violator program, including increased inspections, such as mandatory follow-up inspections of a workplace found in violation and inspections of other worksites of the same company where similar hazards or … Read more