Toronto General Contractor Awarded Best of the Best Innovation Award

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PCL Constructors Canada Inc. (Toronto) was awarded Toronto Construction Association’s Best of the Best Innovation Award at its 155th Annual General Meeting and Best of the Best Awards. The award was bestowed in recognition for the strategy and outcomes achieved delivering Lakeridge Health’s new long-term care home, Lakeridge Gardens (Ajax, Ontario), the first project to be completed under Infrastructure Ontario’s Accelerated Build Pilot Program. The Lakeridge Gardens project team received accolades for its innovation and passion for finding new and improved ways to tackle challenges. The Toronto Construction Association Best of the Best Innovation Award recognizes companies whose achievements genuinely … Read more

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A Chat with Jake Marsac, Senior General Superintendent at Messer Construction

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Cohesive team, mutual respect key to successful projects By Chris Maday Schmidt Senior General Superintendent Jake Marsac possesses more than a dozen years of experience in the construction industry, with the last five years at Messer Construction (Cincinnati, Ohio). In his position, Marsac directly manages field operations for multimillion-dollar scopes of work. Throughout his day-to-day responsibilities, he focuses on safety, quality, schedule and budget, while valuing teamwork, quality, collaboration, ingenuity, stewardship and relationship development. Join Construction Superintendent as Marsac shares advice for breaking into the trades, mitigating the labor and materials shortages, and more. (Q) How did you end up … Read more

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Net-Zero Energy Targeted for Physical Sciences and Engineering Building at Yale University

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The preconstruction contract for Yale University’s $365-million Physical Sciences and Engineering Building project was awarded to Turner Construction Company. This project will feature forward-thinking sustainability efforts, including carbon reduction to lower energy and carbon impact during the construction process. The building will also target net-zero performance and rely on a concerted prefabrication and Lean strategy. The physics and engineering research complex will include a 253,000-square-foot research laboratory building, a 48,000-square-foot addition to Wright Laboratory and a 220-space parking garage. The facility will include an advanced instrumentation development center, research labs, offices, seminar rooms, social spaces, chemical safety facility and delivery … Read more

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Lean, Mean, Materials Handling Machine

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A fresh look at material handling operations By Ken Cornell Did you know that evaluating material handling operations may provide the key to a more productive, safe and profitable jobsite? And superintendents who embrace change on this front give their companies a competitive advantage. Evolution of safety practices Since the establishment of OSHA in the 1970s, safety protocols and standards have continued to evolve. In fact, the pace of change has rapidly increased with the consistent introduction of new technology and processes that are pushing the industry forward in terms of field operations. Typically, slower to adopt change, construction organizations … Read more

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New $60M Engineering and Research Building Epicenter for Excellence, Innovation in SE Georgia

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Construction has recently been completed on Georgia Southern University’s new Engineering and Research Building, a facility primed to serve as the epicenter for engineering excellence and innovation in southeast Georgia. The $60-million facility was designed to facilitate academic and institutional partnerships, inspire creative engineering and accelerate academic success for students in the College of Engineering and Computing. JE Dunn Construction, serving as general contractor on the project, broke ground in December 2018 and completed construction in January 2021. The team was led by Georgia Southern alum, Ryan Edward Price. Price graduated from Georgia Southern in 1997 with a B.S. in … Read more

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