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…

The American Concrete Pavement Association has recognized Kwame Building Group/Green Joint Venture for their work on the reconstruction of taxiway F, L & S at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. The project was rated the “best commercial service and military airport concrete paving project completed in Missouri in 2007.” A St. Louis-based program and construction management firm, Kwame Building Group (KWAME) has completed several major projects at Lambert-St. Louis.