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Fourth Quarter 2008 Leadership Issue GENERA D L TE CO IA N C T O R S A C S T A O E R H S T G EO CH Georgia RGIA BRAN CONSTRUCTION TODAY Leading with Emotional Intelligence Maximizing Opportunities for Personal and Industry Leadership • 2009 Legislative Outlook Winner • Best Practices in Construction Safety • YLP: Platform to Develop Leadership Skills AGC of America’s Chapter of the • Developing Tomorrow’s Skilled Workforce Year • 2008 Convention Highlights • Build Georgia Award Winners • Plus...What’s Happening in 2009 AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF GEORGIA BRANCH, AGC Call Before You Dig. It’s the law. Calling just got Easier! 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Taking Safety to the Next Level 20 Best Practices in Construction Safety Workforce & Leadership Development 23 Young Leadership Program: Platform to Develop Leadership Skills 25 Developing Tomorrow’s Skilled Workforce 2008 Convention Highlights 27 Building Relationships and Honoring Industry Achievements 2008 Build Georgia Award Winners (see list and page numbers below) 31 General Contractor First Place Recipients 54 Specialty Contractors First Place Recipients 58 General Contractor Merit Recipients 62 Index to Advertisers 2008 Build Georgia Cover image @www.istockphoto.com/Ugljesa Radivojac Awards Program 42 New South Construction Company, Inc., Specialty Contractor First Place General Contractor First Place Dobbins ARB Maintenance Hangar Renovation Recipients Recipients 43 New South Construction Company, Inc., 54 Harcon, Inc., Crossroads Community Church 31 Allen & Graham, Inc., Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International 54 Harcon, Inc., Parc at Buckhead Historic City Hall Restoration Airport Concourse Cosmetic Upgrades 55 Mayberry Electric, Inc., Crawford & Company 32 Barton Malow Company, 44 New South Construction Company, Inc., Renaissance Middle School Oconee County Jail 55 Mayberry Electric, Inc., Gospel Music Channel Mulkey Enterprises, Inc., 32 The Beck Group, 45 New South Construction Company, Inc., 56 Lenox Square West Mall Overbuild Wesleyan School Fine Arts Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center Taylor Commercial, Inc., 33 Cork-Howard Construction Co., and Administration Complex 57 Union General Hospital – West Wing 46 Piedmont Construction Group, The Ice Life Care Center of Lawrenceville & LDR/C-Section Renovation House 57 Taylor Commercial, Inc., Grinnell Lofts 34 Garbutt/Christman, a Joint Venture 47 Rogers Construction Company, Partnership, Cone Hall Renovation Ashton Woods Rehabilitation Center General Contractor Merit Recipients 48 Rogers Construction Company, 35 Gay Construction Company, 58 Batson-Cook Company Emory University Hospital Expansion – Gwinnett County Animal Welfare 58 Bowen & Watson, Inc. Neuro Critical Care Unit and Enforcement Center 58 Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC 36 Hogan Construction Group, LLC., 48 Chris R. Sheridan & Company, Fowler YMCA Addition & Renovation Sacred Heart Catholic Church 59 Cork-Howard Construction Company 37 Holder Construction Company, 49 Stroud and Company, Gresco 60 Gilbane Building Company Georgia State University 50 Van Winkle & Company, Inc., 60 Headley Construction Corporation Library Transformation Zion Baptist Church 60 Hogan Construction Group, LLC 37 Kajima Building and Design Group, Nichiha 51 Van Winkle & Company, Inc., 61 Manhattan Construction Company 38 LUSK & Associates, Inc., Edata Systems Center at Marble Mill 61 C. D. Moody Construction Company Aurora Theatre – City of Lawrenceville 52 Warren Associates, Inc., 61 New South Construction Company, Inc. Performing Arts Center MRI Relocation and Expansion 61 R. K. Redding Construction, Inc. 39 LUSK & Associates, Inc., 52 Warren Associates, Inc., Georgia College 61 Turner Construction Company Clarkston Community Center & State University – Macon Campus Center 61 Van Winkle & Company, Inc. 40 C. D. Moody Construction Company, for Graduate and Professional Learning 61 J. M. Wilkerson Construction Co., Inc. Crawford Long Middle School 53 J. M. Wilkerson Construction Co., Inc., 41 New South Construction Company, Inc., MARTA Fare Collections System Upgrades Delta Air Lines South Terminal Ticketing 53 WWPS, Inc., Weracoba Creek Water Renovation Quality Improvement Project Georgia CONSTRUCTION TODAY FOURTH QUARTER 2008 5 GENERA D L TE CO Ge orgia Branch, AGC Staff...Your Information Resource IA N C T O R 678.298.4100 toll free: 800.203.4629 www.agcga.org S A C S T A O Georgia Branch, AGC is a statewide Chapter affi liated with The Associated General Contractors E R H S T of America, Inc. (AGC of America). We are a 501(c)(6) non-profi t corporation and professional trade association whose members represent over 625 of the top general contractors, residen- G EO CH tial/light commercial builders, construction managers, design-builders, municipal-utility, heavy RG AN IA BR and highway contractors, specialty contractors, service providers and suppliers comprising the state’s commercial construction industry. Collectively, we bring a strong, infl uential and single Fourth Quarter 2008 Leadership Issue GENERA D L TE CO IA N voice to the industry. For the past 80 years, our greatest source of pride and legacy is serving in C T O R S A C S T A O E R H S T G EO CH Georgia RGIA BRAN an advocacy role to protect and represent our members’ and industry’s best interest. CONSTRUCTION TODAY We are one of 96 chapters affi liated with AGC of America representing over 33,000 members nationwide. Members of Georgia Branch, AGC are also members of AGC of America. This affi lia- tion affords Georgia Branch members with an even stronger industry voice and broader access Leading with to services, resources and activities available on a national level. Emotional Guided by our core principles of Skill, Integrity and Responsibility, our Chapter’s mission Intelligence is “...to be the voice of Georgia’s construction industry, provide valuable member services Maximizing Opportunities for Personal and Industry Leadership t-FHJTMBUJWF0VUMPPL and promote best construction industry practices.” Winner t#FTU1SBDUJDFTJO$POTUSVDUJPO4BGFUZ AGC of America’s t:-11MBUGPSNUP%FWFMPQ-FBEFSTIJQ4LJMMT Chapter of the t%FWFMPQJOH5PNPSSPXT4LJMMFE8PSLGPSDF Year t$POWFOUJPO)JHIMJHIUT t#VJME(FPSHJB"XBSE8JOOFST t1MVT8IBUT)BQQFOJOHJO AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF GEORGIA BRANCH, AGC MICHAEL T. 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