Kwame Building Group has been named construction manager and owner’s representative on a new $10 million facility for St. Louis Community College’s William J. Harrison Northside Education Center in St. Louis. The approximately 30,000-square-foot project will include classroom facilities. Construction is scheduled to begin in winter 2009 and be completed in 2010. The architect is KAI.
Source: Suburban Journals
Guarantee Electrical has been selected to perform electrical work at the new $290 million SunCoke Energy Inc. plant in Granite City, IL. Guarantee Electrical, which has a long-standing partnership with U.S. Steel, is serving as electrical contractor, with 80 to 90 electricians on-site at peak production.
Leslie Guevarra of Greener Buildings reports on the Lawrence Group’s eco-friendly model home built of shipping containers, which is featured at the West Coast Green conference.
Amid neck-craning stacks of shipping containers at an Alameda depot, a building crew has worked for the past two weeks to fashion an eco-friendly, two-story structure from five recycled and refurbished steel cubes that had been used to haul cargo. The project by SG Blocks LLC and the design firm called the Lawrence Group will bring an 1,800-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bath home to San Jose, where the structure dubbed Harbinger House will be the centerpiece on the tradeshow floor of the West Coast Green conference that runs from September 24 to 27. read more…
St. Louis-based Kwame Building Group is serving as construction manager for the $435 million Port Authority of Allegheny County’s North Shore Connector project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. KWAME is part of the joint venture called TriGold, which includes Jacobs Engineering of Pasadena, California and HDR, an architectural and engineering firm of Omaha, Nebraska.
The new 1.2 mile extension will expand Pittsburgh’s current 25 mile light rail transit system known as the “T,” from the Gateway subway station underneath Stanwix Street and the Allegheny River to the developing North Shore area of Pittsburgh. The project includes construction of three new stations. Read more…
On-the-job fatalities in construction were down 5% in 2007, but the decline was less than other industries and the highest of any sector, according to the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The construction industry had 1,178 workplace deaths last year, down 5% from 2006. Construction has reported the most fatal work injuries of any industry for the past five years.
For all U.S. industries, fatal workplace injuries were down 6% last year, the smallest number of on-the-job deaths since the Labor Deparment first reported the census in 1992.
Of the total construction fatalities last year, 38% were the result of fall, according to the data tables.
Source: ENR
Valero Energy Corporation–Benicia has recognized Guarantee Electrical for its outstanding safety record at the company’s Benicia, California refinery through their “Contractor of the Year Safety Award for Large Contractors.” St. Louis-based Guarantee Electrical has provided electrical maintenance, service, instrumentation and electrical construction on capital projects for the refinery since 1969. read more…
