22nd Annual Excellence in Construction Awards
A Celebr ation of Outstanding Construction Projects, Safety Performances and diversit y progr ams
Feb. 22, 2012 • Arizon a B iltmore • Phoenix
1533_0212 Truly exceptional achievements.
With the 22nd Annual
Excellence in Construction Awards,
ABC proudly honors the year’s
most outstanding construction projects
and contractors for their remarkable
achievements in leadership, safety,
innovation and diversity.
CII page 2 National Excellence In Construction Awards
Panel of Judges / 3 page 4 Eagle Winners
Specialty Contractor Categories / 4 Electrical / 4 Exteriors / 5 Interiors / 5 Mechanical / 6 Other Specialty Construction / 7 Sitework/Landscape / 7
General Contractor/Construction Management Categories / 8 Commercial / 8 Community/Public Service / 8 HealthCare / 9 Industrial / 9 Infrastructure/Heavy / 10 Institutional / 11 Other Construction / 12 Preservation/Historical Restoration / 13 Public Works/Environmental / 14 Renovation / 14 Residential / 15 Mega-Projects / 15 page 17 Pyramid Winners Specialty Contractor Categories / 17 General Contractor/Construction Management Categories / 19 page 22 National Safety Excellence Awards
Panel of Judges / 23 page 24 Excellence Winners General Contractor / 24 Heavy and Civil Engineering Contractor / 24 Specialty Contractor / 24 page 25 Merit Winners General Contractor / 25 Heavy and Civil Engineering Contractor / 25 Specialty Contractor / 25 page 26 National Diversity Excellence Awards
Panel of Judges / 27 Associate / 27 Supplier / 27 Subcontractor / 27 General Contractor / 27 page 28 Contractor of the Year Award page 29 2011 STEP Diamond Recipients page 30 Index of All Winners page 32 Program Sponsors On a higher plane of innovation and quality.
2011 Excellence in Construction Award Recipients
The Excellence in Construction Awards
honor the skill and creativity of the
entire team—contractor, owner, architect
and engineer—responsible for an outstanding
merit shop construction project. The 2011
award recipients exceeded expectations
in innovation and quality.
2 Panel of Judges
Richard Belle President Belle Communications, LLC Bethesda, Md.
Mike Fredebeil Senior Vice President Willis North America, Inc. Atlanta, Ga.
David Harris President Emeritus National Institute of Building Sciences Washington, D.C.
Richard Hayes Director, Knowledge Resources The American Institute of Architects Washington, D.C.
Dede Hughes Executive Vice President National Association of Women in Construction Fort Worth, Texas
Sherwood Kelly Athena Associates, Ltd. Franklin, Tenn.
David Lickteig Construction Management, Retired Central Washington University Ellensburg, Wash.
Tucker Ophof Director, Membership Development Design-Build Institute of America Washington, D.C.
Jason Robertson Director, Business Development CRB Engineers Kansas City, Mo.
Andrew Wright Managing Senior Editor ENR.com New York, New York Eagle Winners Specialty Contractor Categories
Contractor Project Name Project Location Client/Owner Architect Engineer Architect/Engineer GC General Contractor
Electrical-Commercial Less than $2 Million
Helix Electric Manse Elementary School Pahrump, Nev. Nye County School District Carpenter Sellers Del Gatto Architects Harris Consulting Engineers Affordable Concepts, Inc. GC Helix brought interactive whiteboard, audio enhancement and security systems to a 54,000-square-foot rural Nevada elementary school, as well as a sustainable geothermal system.
Electrical-Commercial $2-10 Million
All Star Electric, Inc. Renaissance Hotel at Bluebonnet Baton Rouge, La. Wampold Companies Gensler Craig Hebert Engineering, LLC
All Star Electric overcame numerous scheduling and manpower challenges to help transform a 12-story precast eyesore into a four-star hotel and ballroom complex.
Electrical-Industrial Less than $2 Million
MMR Constructors, Inc. Cleco-Teche 4 Blackstart Unit Baldwin, La. Cleco Sargent & Lundy
L-Con Constructors GC
A team effort allowed MMR Constructors to complete this $1.9 million, 33 megawatt black start unit designed to provide emergency electricity to nearly 300,000 people in the event of a total system failure.
4 Specialty Contractor Categories Eagle Winners
Electrical - More than $10 Million
Interstates Companies EGT, LLC Export Grain Terminal Longview, Wash. EGT, LLC T.E. Ibberson Company GC T.E. Ibberson Company
Interstates executed a $15.7 million design-build electrical contract for the first U.S. grain export terminal constructed in more than 20 years, using lean systems and offsite prefabrication to prevent congestion onsite.
Exteriors - All Contract Amounts
Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing City of Houston Central Permitting Center Houston, Texas City of Houston Studio RED Architects Haynes Whaley Associates, Inc. GC Manhattan Construction Company Due to unforeseen deterioration, Chamberlin patched 380 percent more of the exterior façade than originally estimated while performing a 10-month triple wythe masonry restoration for this LEED Gold city building.
Interiors - All Contract Amounts
Ingram Enterprises, Inc. Ruby Diamond Auditorium Tallahassee, Fla. Florida State University Gilchrist Ross Crowe Architects H2Engineering, Inc. GC LLT Building Corporation Ingram implemented creative field engineering and coordination with MEP subcontractors while performing framing, insulation, sealant, plaster and ceiling work on this $38 million LEED Gold concert hall renovation and addition.
5 Eagle Winners Specialty Contractor Categories
Contractor Project Name Project Location Client/Owner Architect Engineer Architect/Engineer GC General Contractor
Mechanical-Commercial Less than $2 Million
Waldrop Mechanical Services A. M. Shipp and A. Mason DuPre Residence Halls Spartanburg, S.C. Wofford College McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture Wade Crow Engineering
Waldrop completed mechanical renovations for two residence halls at Wofford College within a tight 12-week time frame—despite a 14-day delay following the discovery of asbestos.
Mechanical-Commercial $2-10 Million
M&D Mechanical Contractors, Inc. NASA Construct Replacement Building 4602 Marshall Space Flight Center, Ala. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc. Carothers Construction, Inc. GC
M&D Mechanical filled the second story of this 83,000-square-foot LEED Silver office and laboratory building with custom built air handling units, including one measuring 46 feet long and 15 feet high.
Mechanical Projects More than $10 Million
Lee Company Schermerhorn Symphony Center Nashville, Tenn. Schermerhorn Symphony Center Earl Swensson Associates, Inc. I. C. Thomasson Associates, Inc.
American Constructors, Inc. GC After this symphony hall suffered major flood damage, crews worked 24 hours a day to remove MEP systems piecemeal through an eight-by-eight-foot opening, as well as install new equipment and implement a flood protection plan.
6 Specialty Contractor Categories Eagle Winners
Other Specialty Construction Less than $1 Million
Aggregate Technologies, Inc. Albert B. & Margaret M. Alkek Hospital Expansion Houston, Texas M. D. Anderson Hospital HKS Design Build Services GC McCarthy Builders
To accommodate this functioning 12-story hospital, Aggregate Technologies worked in tight conditions during the night to remove more than 100 precast concrete panels weighing up to 16,000 pounds.
Other Specialty Construction More than $1 Million
Metro Fence Company, Inc. FBI Regional Field Office Denver, Colo. ASP Denver LLC Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP GC Lend Lease, Inc.
Metro Fence overcame bad weather, rigid FBI security, design delays and subcontractor sequencing issues to safely erect a half-mile of anti-terrorist crash-rated fencing with no schedule extensions.
Sitework/Landscape All contract amounts
Ruppert Landscape Barbara Truland Butz Healing Garden at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital Rockville, Md. Shady Grove Adventist Hospital Oasis Design Group Roofmeadow Ruppert created a healing garden on the hospital roof while adhering to noise restrictions that required all power tools to be used on the ground to avoid disturbing operating and patient rooms.
7 Eagle Winners General Contractor / Construction Management Categories
Contractor Project Name Project Location orrow Client/Owner m
Architect WINNER er to Engineer Architect/Engineer GREENAWARD GC General Contractor
Commercial - Less than $10 Million
Middleman Construction Company LLC Eagle Veterinary Hospital San Antonio, Texas Eagle Veterinary Hospital / Dr. Kenneth Kirlin Mdn Architects, Inc. Moy Tarin Ramirez Engineers, LLC
Middleman focused on the education of management, field workers and subcontractors to successfully complete this LEED Platinum-certified, $2.5 million veterinary hospital.
Commercial - $10-25 Million
Roche Constructors, Inc. Target Store No. 2717 Lakewood, Colo. Target Stores Target Corporation
Roche incorporated space-saving elements to make the most out of a 5.64- acre site, including building the retail store 20 feet above ground to provide parking for nearly 300 vehicles.
Community/Public Service
Hogg Construction, Inc. Leg Up Farm - Phase One York, Pa. Lou Castriota, Jr. By Design Consultants, Inc.
Hogg volunteered thousands of manhours during 12 years of preconstruction in order to help the owner—the father of a special needs child—get funding for this LEED Silver physical therapy school.
8 General Contractor / Construction Management Categories Eagle Winners
Healthcare - $10-25 Million
Robins & Morton Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center Tallahassee, Fla. Health Care REIT, Inc. SSOE Group TLC Engineering for Architecture
Routine quality inspections and the use of building information modeling allowed Robins & Morton to complete this two-story, 52,000-square-foot cancer center on time with LEED Silver certification.
Healthcare - $25-100 Million
Robins & Morton Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center San Antonio, Texas U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs SmithGroup / Marmon Mok Architecture SmithGroup Building information modeling helped Robins & Morton complete this $39 million rehabilitation center ahead of schedule and under budget, while incorporating elements specific to healing injured soldiers.
Industrial - Less than $5 Million
Crain Construction, Inc. Fiberweb Horizon Building Old Hickory, Tenn. Fiberweb Inc. STG Design Inc. Logan Patri Engineering, Inc.
For this eight-month design-build project, Crain married pre-engineered and traditional structural steel buildings to create a 52,750-square-foot equipment platform and research development center for a manufacturing facility.
9 Eagle Winners General Contractor / Construction Management Categories
Contractor Project Name Project Location Client/Owner Architect Engineer Architect/Engineer GC General Contractor
Industrial - $5-15 Million
EXCEL Contractors, Inc. SNF Flopam Polyacrylamide Facility Line 1 & 2 Plaquemine, La. SNF Flopam CDI Engineering / Waldemar S. Nelson and Co.
EXCEL collaborated with its steel fabricator and subcontractors to cut the schedule in half prior to mobilization, finishing on time despite the scope of work increasing 33 percent once construction was under way.
Industrial - $15-25 Million
EXCEL Contractors, Inc. Cruzan Condensed Molasses Soluble Recovery Project Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands Cruzan Viril, Ltd. DAVIES Engineering, Inc.
Despite volatile tropical weather, EXCEL finished this water treatment facility in the U.S. Virgin Islands in one year—with no schedule extensions—while coordinating the shipment of all materials and equipment from other countries.
Infrastructure/Heavy All contract amounts
Caddell Construction Co., Inc. Training Roads & Bridges / Phase A Fort Benning, Ga. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Caddell safely built 16 miles of concrete roads and bridges through woodlands inhabited by two endangered species and bordered by state- protected waterways while the Army maintained full access to its nearby training ranges. 10 General Contractor / Construction Management Categories General Contractor / Construction Management Categories Eagle Winners
Institutional - Less than $5 Million
Structure Tone Southwest Cathedral of Hope Interfaith Peace Chapel Dallas, Texas Cathedral of Hope Interfaith Peace Chapel Philip Johnson Alan Ritchie Architects / Cunningham Architects Thornton Tomasetti Structure Tone Southwest took curves and arches to the next level while completing this 8,000-square-foot church facility, which features no right angles or parallel lines.
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Institutional - $5-10 Million
Juneau Construction Company, LLC Georgia Institute of Technology North Avenue Dining Hall Atlanta, Ga. Georgia Institute of Technology Menefee + Winer Architects Newcomb & Boyd Consultants and Engineers With a green roof and $750,000 of value engineering, Juneau completed this 21,900-square-foot dining hall renovation and expansion in 10 and a half months without interrupting service to 2,200 students.
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Institutional - $10-25 Million
Caddell / Clark Joint Venture Warriors in Transition Barracks Fort Campbell, Ky. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD
Aided by a strong joint venture team, Fort Campbell built a new generation of LEED barracks customized for wounded soldiers in combat that includes a healing garden and wheelchair exercise course.
11 Eagle Winners General Contractor / Construction Management Categories
Contractor Project Name Project Location Client/Owner Architect Engineer Architect/Engineer GC General Contractor
Institutional - $25-50 Million
Skanska USA Building, Inc. Texas A&M University Agriculture Headquarters College Station, Texas Texas A&M University System Kirksey Architecture Haynes Whaley Associates / Jaster-Quintanilla Engineers / E&C Engineers & Consultants While building this headquarters for Texas A&M University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Skanska turned the project into a learning experience by holding lectures, tours and sponsoring a capstone class.
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Institutional - $50-100 Million
B.L. Harbert International, LLC U.S. Consulate Compound Karachi, Pakistan Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations - U.S. Department of State PageSoutherlandPage Hankins & Anderson In addition to the Pakistani government refusing shipments of American materials, B.L. Harbert overcame flooding and violence to design and build this sustainable U.S. consulate on time and under budget.
Other Construction Less than $5 Million
Flintco, LLC Tulsa Zoo Mary K. Chapman Giraffe Experience Tulsa, Okla. Tulsa Zoo Management, Inc. Crafton Tull & Associates, Inc.
With craftworkers performing 90 percent of the work from elevations, Flintco built a 930-square-foot giraffe viewing platform using a no- maintenance material made of recycled milk jugs.
12 General Contractor / Construction Management Categories General Contractor / Construction Management Categories Eagle Winners
Other Construction $5-100 Million
Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC Birmingham CrossPlex Birmingham, Ala. City of Birmingham Davis Architects, Inc.
Phased bid packages and BIM coordination software helped Brasfield & Gorrie stay on schedule to deliver this LEED-certified indoor track and Olympic-size pool facility.
Preservation/Historical Restoration - Less than $10 Million
Lund-Ross Constructors, Inc. Hughes-Irons Building Council Bluffs, Iowa Pottawattamie County Development Corporation Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture Morrissey Engineering, Inc.
Lund-Ross performed interior demolition, structural repairs, and façade, flooring and window restorations to turn a 94-year-old auto dealership into high-end residential and commercial space.
Preservation/Historical Restoration - $10-100 Million
Gibbs Construction, LLC U.S. Custom House New Orleans, La. U.S. General Services Administration PDG Architects DBR Engineering Consultants, Inc.
Teamwork was the key to Gibbs’ successful 20-month restoration and sustainable modernization of this 19th century federal government building that occupies a city block in New Orleans.
13 Eagle Winners General Contractor / Construction Management Categories
Contractor Project Name Project Location titute Client/Owner s WINNER In Architect Engineer AWARD ign-Build Architect/Engineer s e erica D GC General Contractor Am f o
Public Works/Environmental All contract amounts
Pinkard Construction Company Central Platte Campus Denver, Colo. City and County of Denver Public Works RNL MKK Consulting Engineers, Inc. / Lund Partnership / Zeiler Pennock, Inc. Pinkard exceeded its LEED Silver goal to achieve LEED Gold certification on this design-build brownfield redevelopment for the city of Denver despite site contamination and routinely digging up hazardous debris.
Renovation - Less than $4 Million
Moon Construction Services, Inc. Madison Police Station Addition Madison, Ala. City of Madison, Alabama Osborn & Associates Architects Hodnett • Hurst Engineers, Inc.
Moon Construction Services renovated and expanded the Madison Police Station while minimizing interruptions to its 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a- week operating schedule.
Renovation - $4-10 Million
Consolidated Construction Co., Inc. Gold’s Gym Downtown Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wis. Compass Properties, LLC Consolidated Construction Co., Inc. Pierce Engineers, Inc.
After developing a precise budget to support lease negotiations, Consolidated Construction transformed an urban eyesore into a five-story gym—with no staging area and crane use restricted to off-peak traffic hours.
14 General Contractor / Construction Management Categories General Contractor / Construction Management Categories Eagle Winners
Residential - Multi-Family and Condominium Projects
DonahueFavret Contractors, Inc. The Groves at Mile Branch Creek Covington, La. New Covington Apartments, LP MSH Architects, LLC Scalfano Engineering, Inc.
DonahueFavret completed this 94-unit housing development for mixed- income families ahead of schedule and under budget in an area of New Orleans decimated by Hurricane Katrina.
Residential - Single Family Projects
Bennett Builders, LLC Villa Gardens Lafayette, La. Villa Gardens Limited Partnership Angelle Architects Montagnet and Domingue, Inc.
Bennett Builders safely completed a 95,865-square-foot single-family housing development that incorporated 43 rental homes and nine floor plans two months ahead of the 10-month schedule.
Mega-Projects - $100-150 Million
B.L. Harbert International, LLC U.S. Consulate Compound Dubai, United Arab Emirates Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations - U.S. Department of State PageSoutherlandPage Hankins & Anderson B.L. Harbert overcame unique challenges, such as working through the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in 130-degree temperatures, to complete this LEED Gold-certified U.S. consulate in Dubai four months early.
15 Eagle Winners General Contractor / Construction Management Categories
Contractor Project Name Project Location Client/Owner Architect Engineer Architect/Engineer GC General Contractor
Mega-Projects - $150-200 Million
S & B Engineers and Constructors, Ltd. Enterprise Products Mont Belvieu FRAC V Project Mont Belvieu, Texas Enterprise Products Operating L.P. S & B Engineers and Constructors, Ltd.
Even with a schedule condensed by five months, S & B Engineers and Constructors reported zero incidents during the more than one million hours required to complete this industrial facility.
Mega-Projects More than $200 Million
KBR Building Group | Turner Construction Joint Venture The Boeing Company - South Carolina 787 Expansion - Final Assembly Building North Charleston, S.C. The Boeing Company BRPH Architects-Engineers, Inc. KBR and Turner built this 1.2 million-square-foot airplane assembly plant in just 18 months, surpassing the owner’s sustainability goals while logging four million manhours without a lost time incident.
16 General Contractor / Construction Management Categories Specialty Contractor Categories Pyramid Winners
Electrical-Commercial Interiors Less than $2 Million All Contract Amounts
Encore Electric, Inc. Johnston Products of Dallas, Inc. Advanced Electrical Metering for U.S. Department Anthropologie at Canal Place Suspension Stairs of Veterans Affairs Hospital Buildings New Orleans, La. Multiple Cities Urban Outfitters U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Phillips Partnership Schneider Electric USA, Inc. Mechanical-Commercial Electrical-Commercial Less than $2 Million $2-10 Million hth companies, inc. Gould Electric Inc. Missouri AVCRAD Phase II Thomas Jefferson School of Law Springfield, Mo. San Diego, Calif. State of Missouri Thomas Jefferson School of Law Carrier Johnson + Culture Mechanical-Commercial Michael Wall Engineering $2-10 Million GC Lend Lease, Inc. Lake Mechanical Contractors, Inc. Electrical-Industrial The Peabody Orlando Hotel Less than $2 Million Orlando, Fla. Triad Electric & Controls, Inc. UST Hotel Joint Venture, Ltd. Shell AO/ID DCS Upgrade Project SCA Design Group, Inc. Geismar, La. CHP & Associates, Consulting Engineers, Inc. Shell Chemicals GC Balfour Beatty Construction, LLC Shell Chemicals Mechanical-Industrial Electrical-Industrial Less than $10 Million $2-10 Million Turner Industries Group, L.L.C. Interstates Companies PCLA Turnaround Ag Processing, Inc. Prep & Extraction Upgrade Baton Rouge, La. and Meal Loadout ExxonMobil Dawson, Minn. Ag Processing, Inc. Mechanical Projects Karges-Faulconbridge, Inc. More than $10 Million GC A-Lert Construction Services TDIndustries, Inc. Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus Electrical Houston, Texas More than $10 Million Texas Children’s Hospital Starr Electric Company, Inc. PageSoutherlandPage Cisco Systems Data Center Building One Smith Seckman Reid, Inc. Research Triangle Park, N.C. GC Tellepsen Builders Cisco Systems, Inc. The Wooten Company GC RN Rouse
Contractor Project Name Project Location Client/Owner Architect Engineer Architect/Engineer GC General Contractor
17 Pyramid Winners Specialty Contractor Categories
Other Specialty Construction Other Specialty Construction Less than $1 Million More than $1 Million
Cajun Deep Foundations, LLC Holes Incorporated Bayou LaButte 500kV Cut-In Drill Shaft Industrial Terminals Dock 1 Renovation Foundations Houston, Texas Plaquemine, La. Industrial Terminals, LP Entergy Louisiana, LLC River Consulting, LLC Entergy Louisiana, LLC GC Entergy Louisiana, LLC Sitework/Landscape All contract amounts Other Specialty Construction Metro - Total, JV Less than $1 Million U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters Johnston Products of Dallas, Washington, D.C. Inc. U.S. General Services Administration, National The Willow Tree at The Summit Capital Region Grand Prairie, Texas Cagley & Associates City of Grand Prairie GC Clark Construction Group, LLC Cao Perrot Studio GC Manhattan Construction
Contractor Project Name Project Location Client/Owner Architect Engineer Architect/Engineer GC General Contractor
18 General Contractor/Construction Management Categories Pyramid Winners
Commercial Healthcare - $25-100 Million Less than $10 Million Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC AUI Contractors, LLC Mission Trail Baptist Hospital Arlington Municipal Airport Terminal San Antonio, Texas Arlington, Texas VHS San Antonio Partners dba Baptist Health System City of Arlington Earl Swensson Associates, Inc. PGAL Architects Structural Design Group
Commercial - $25-100 Million Industrial - Less than $5 Million
Hoar Construction, LLC T. E. Ibberson Company The Outlet Shops of Grand River South River Tunnel Pump Station Slip Leeds, Ala. Atlanta, Ga. Daniel Corporation / United States Steel GSC Atlanta CMH Architects, Inc. T. E. Ibberson Company Walter Schoel Engineering Co., Inc. Ibberson Engineering, Inc.
Commercial - $25-100 Million Industrial - $5-15 Million
White Construction Company Performance Contractors, Inc. Freedom Crossing at Fort Bliss MSAT2 Project El Paso, Texas Beaumont, Texas Army & Air Force Exchange Service ExxonMobil Good Fulton & Farrell Architects Jacobs Engineering Huitt-Zollars, Inc. / Koegel Associates, Inc. Industrial - $15-25 Million Community/Public Service Todd & Sargent, Inc. Huser Construction Company, Inc. Sanderson Farms Feed Mill The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Kinston, N.C. Community Center Sanderson Farms, Inc. Kerrville, Texas Todd & Sargent, Inc. The Salvation Army Hastings + Chivetta Architects, Inc. / Peter W. Infrastructure/Heavy Lewis Architects & Associates All contract amounts Matkin Hoover Engineering & Surveying / Bill Reiffert & Associates, Inc. / McClure Conti Federal Services, Inc. Engineering Associates / Counsilman-Hunsake / Lake Pontchartrain & Vicinity 149 Caernarvon Rialto Studio, Inc. Canal Floodwall New Orleans, La. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans Healthcare District for the Hurricane Protection Office Less than $10 Million Arcadis, U.S., Inc. Hensel Phelps Construction Co. Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center Emergency Institutional Department & Observation Unit Expansion Less than $5 Million Chula Vista, Calif. Sharp HealthCare SEDALCO, INC. Richard Yen & Associates, Inc. Lou and Nick Martin Campus Center Aark Engineering Inc. Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth Country Day School Bennett • Benner • Pettit Architects + Planners Healthcare Less than $10 Million Institutional - $5-10 Million Leonard Contracting, Inc. Arnold House at Air Force Village SpawGlass San Antonio, Texas Texas State Technical College University Center Air Force Village at Harlingen Rees Associates, Inc. Harlingen, Texas Texas State Technical College ERO Architects
Contractor Project Name Project Location Client/Owner Architect Engineer Architect/Engineer GC General Contractor
19 Pyramid Winners General Contractor/Construction Management Categories
Institutional - $10-25 Million Other Construction $5-100 Million Hoar Construction, LLC Harris County Transportation Plaza, Jury Assembly Forrester Construction Building and Tunnel Renovation Company Houston, Texas Robinson Nature Center Harris County Public Infrastructure Department Columbia, Md. PageSoutherlandPage Howard County Government AECOM / Haynes Whaley Associates GWWO, Inc./Architects Faisant Associates, Inc. / Henry Adams, LLC / Institutional - $10-25 Million ADTEK Engineers Inc.
Straub Construction, Inc. Other Construction Design Build Human Resources Service Center $5-100 Million MCAS Miramar, San Diego, Calif. U.S. Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Hoar Construction, LLC Engineering Command, Southwest Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children RJC Architects, Inc. Concrete Frame Birmingham, Ala. Institutional - $25-50 Million Children’s of Alabama Giattina Aycock Architecture Studio / HKS, Inc. Manhattan Construction HKS, Inc. Company George Bush Intercontinental Airport Automated Pre-Engineered Building People Mover Extension - Terminal A All contract amounts Houston, Texas City of Houston / Continental Airlines SpawGlass Global Real Estate Armed Forces Reserve Center Phase II at Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc. Ellington Field WALTER P MOORE Houston, Texas U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institutional - $25-50 Million Gensler
SpawGlass Preservation/Historical Sam Houston State University James and Nancy Restoration - Less than Gaertner Performing Arts Center $10 Million Huntsville, Texas Sam Houston State University Flintco, LLC WHR Architects Texas Capitol Dome and Texas House of Representatives Chamber Ceiling Repair and Institutional - $50-100 Million Repainting Austin, Texas Caddell Construction Co., Inc. Texas State Preservation Board U.S. Consulate Ford, Powell & Carson Architects Tijuana, Mexico and Planners, Inc. U.S. Department of State Datum Engineering, Inc.
Institutional - $50-100 Million Preservation/Historical Forrester Construction Restoration - $10-100 Million Company Adolfson & Peterson Department of Employment Services Construction, inc. Headquarters Denver Public Schools North High School Historic Washington, D.C. Renovations and Addition District of Columbia - Denver, Colo. Department of Real Estate Services Denver Public Schools Devrouax & Purnell Architects / DVA Architects Humphries Poli Architects / Klipp Structura
Contractor Project Name Project Location Client/Owner Architect Engineer Architect/Engineer GC General Contractor
20 General Contractor/Construction Management Categories Pyramid Winners
Public Works/Environmental Residential - Multi-Family and All contract amounts Condominium Projects
Grimm Construction Company, Inc. Synergy Construction, Inc. Water One Facility 3 (Phase V) Potala Village Water Treatment Plant Everett, Wash. Kansas City, Kan. Potala Village, LLC Water One Charles Morgan & Associates Black & Veatch Corporation KPFF Consulting Engineers / Abossein Engineers / CG Engineering Renovation Less than $4 Million Mega-Projects $100-150 Million Benchmark Construction Company, Inc. Hensel Phelps Construction Co. The Women & Babies Hospital NASA Mobile Launcher Main Entrance Renovation Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Lancaster, Pa. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lancaster General Health Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc. Noelker & Hull Associates, Inc. Barton Associates, Inc. Mega-Projects $150-200 Million Renovation Wolverine Building Group Less than $4 Million Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital Breaking Ground Contracting Grand Rapids, Mich. Breaking Ground Corporate Office Renovation Spectrum Health Jacksonville, Fla. Jonathan Bailey Associates / URS Breaking Ground Contracting Zinser-Grossman Ebert Norman Brady Architects Baker Klein Engineering, P.L. / TLC Engineering Mega-Projects for Architecture $150-200 Million
Skanska Shook Renovation - $4-10 Million Miami Valley Hospital Southeast Addition Gibbs Construction, LLC Dayton, Ohio 1009 Poydras Street Premier Health Partners New Orleans, La. NBBJ 1009 Poydras, LLC Korda Engineering John C. Williams Architects, LLC Morphy Makofsky, Inc. Mega-Projects More than $200 Million Renovation - $4-10 Million Hensel Phelps Construction Co. Hogg Construction, Inc. U.S. Southern Command Headquarters DoubleTree Resort at Willow Valley Miami-Doral, Fla. Lancaster, Pa. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Willow Valley Associates, Inc. Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc. / BRPH Newcomer Associates, Inc. M.C. Dean, Inc. / Critchfield Mechanical, Inc. / The Crosby Group / Brittingham & Associates Renovation - $10-100 Million Structural Engineer
SpawGlass Bush Intercontinental Airport Terminal C Ticketing, Baggage Claim and ITT Level Remodel Houston, Texas Houston Airport System / Continental Airlines Parsons
Contractor Project Name Project Location Client/Owner Architect Engineer Architect/Engineer GC General Contractor
21 For making safety integral to excellence.
2011 National Safety Excellence Award Recipients
From exceptional safety records to rigorous
training and education programs, winners of
the National Safety Excellence Awards excelled
in all 20 components of ABC’s Safety Training
Evaluation Process (STEP), demonstrating an
extraordinary commitment to safety.
22 Panel of Judges
Paul Lamarre Corporate Safety Director Hall Contracting of Kentucky, Inc. Louisville, KY 2011-12 ABC National Environment, Health & Safety Committee Chair
Craig Shaffer, CSP President SafetyWorks, Inc. Dillsburg, PA
Ralph Riley Safety/Workforce Programs Manager S&B Engineers & Constructors, Ltd. Houston, TX
Mike Moak Corporate Safety Director Keller, Inc. Kaukauna, WI
Rich Baldwin, CSP Corporate HSE Manager PCL Construction Enterprises Denver, CO
Michael Caughey HSE Manager STARCON International La Porte, TX
Ed Foulke Partner Fisher & Phillips, LLC Atlanta, GA
Robert Hume Corporate Safety Director NOVA Group, Inc. Napa, CA
Wayne Hopkins Safety Director Alpha Insulation & Waterproofing, Inc. Marietta, GA
Daryl Guercio Corporate EHS Compliance Manager The Shaw Group, Inc. Baton Rouge, LA
Todd Meek Corporate Safety Director Lauren Engineers & Constructors, Inc. Abilene, TX
Mike Fredebeil Vice President Willis Atlanta, GA
Gary Birchall DuPont Charlotte, NC
Michael Lentz Vice President, Director of EH&S Lend Lease, Inc. New York, NY
23 Excellence Winners
NAICS 236 General Contractor
D.E. Harvey Builders, Inc. Houston, Texas
Keystruct Construction, Inc. York, Pa.
Lebolo Construction Management, Inc. Boynton Beach, Fla.
Pinkard Construction Company Lakewood, Colo.
SpawGlass Construction Corporation Houston, Texas
The Mundy Companies Houston, Texas
NAICS 237 Heavy and Civil Engineering Contractor
AMEC Power & Process Americas Tucker, Ga.
PCL Industrial Construction Alpharetta, Ga.
Underground Construction Company, Inc. Benicia, Calif.
W.T. Byler Co. Houston, Texas
NAICS 238 Specialty Contractor
Aggregate Technologies, Inc. Houston, Texas
Braun Electric Company, Inc. Bakersfield, Calif.
Color Works Painting, Inc. New Castle, Del.
Hayward Electric Hayward, Calif.
ISC Constructors, LLC Baton Rouge, La.
Mobley Industrial Services, Inc. La Porte, Texas
Valley Electrical Contractors, Inc. Midland, Mich.
24 Merit Winners
NAICS 236 General Contractor
Adolfson & Peterson Construction, Inc. Hendrick Construction, Inc.* Aurora, Colo. Charlotte, N.C.
ASSET Group, Inc. Manhattan Construction Company Oklahoma City, Okla. Tulsa, Okla.
Centennial Contractors* Niking Corporation Fife, Wash. Wahiawa, Hawaii
Coakley & Williams Construction, Inc. Ref-Chem L.P.* Gaithersburg, Md. Pasadena, Texas
NAICS 237 Heavy and Civil Engineering Contractor
Cajun Industries, LLC Lauren Engineers & Constructors, Inc. Baton Rouge, La. Abilene, Texas
ENGlobal PCL Industrial Services Houston, Texas Bakersfield, Calif.
J.F. Allen Company Robert Heely Construction, LP Buckhannon, W.Va. Paso Robles, Calif.
NAICS 238 Specialty Contractor
Absolute Environmental Kwest Group* Contractors, LLC Perrysburg, Ohio Hermitage, Tenn. Miken Specialties, ltd. G.E. Insulation Co. A Member of the Brock Group* Sanford, Mich. Clute, Texas
hth companies, inc. Notch Mechanical Constructors Union, Mo. Chicopee, Mass.
Interstates Companies STARCON International, Inc.* Sioux Center, Iowa La Porte, Texas
* Denotes 2010 National Safety Excellence Award (NSEA) Recipient. Previous years NSEA recipients are ineligible to receive the 2011 NSEA. 25 Committed to Diversity.
2011 National Diversity Excellence Award Recipients
The ABC National Diversity Excellence Awards
recognize members that display exemplary
diversity leadership in their workforce, supply
chain and community with best-in-class
recruitment policies, retention practices,
and training and mentoring programs.
26 Associate Littler Mendelson, P.C. Panel of Judges San Francisco, Calif. Charles Eaton Director Corporate Diversity Hensel Phelps Construction Co. Chantilly, Va. Supplier Otis Jennings United Rentals Manager Greenwich, Conn. Jennings Construction Services Syracuse, N.Y.
Vincent T. Norwillo, Esq. Partner Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP Subcontractor Cleveland, Ohio
Clyde Rainey TDIndustries, Inc. Diversity Director Dallas, Texas Gaylor, Inc. Indianapolis, Ind.
Deborah E.G. Wilder President Contractor Compliance and Monitoring, Inc. General Contractor San Mateo, Calif.
Hensel Phelps Construction Co. Greeley, Colo.
27 Contractor of the Year Award
American Infrastructure was founded in 1939 by Allan A.
Myers, and his son, Allan C. Myers, as a local hauling firm in
the Philadelphia suburbs. The company continues to operate as
Allan A. Myers in Pennsylvania and Delaware, and as American
Infrastructure in Maryland and Virginia, with 1,800 employees
and nearly $500 million in annual revenue.
American Infrastructure is a vertically integrated, heavy civil
construction firm and material supplier with a network of
regional construction offices, quarries and asphalt plants in
the Mid-Atlantic states.
What sets American Infrastructure apart from other contractors
is its homegrown safety culture and “Home Safe Tonight” safety
program. Additionally, employees are required to take and pass
numerous safety classes as part of their career training.
28 2011 STEP Diamond Recipients
A&D GC, Inc. Lauren Engineers & Constructors, Inc. Alloy Construction Service, Inc. L-Con Constructors, LLC Atlantic Constructors, Inc. LCS Constructors, Inc. Auburn Constructors, Inc. LD Kerns Contractors Austin Industrial, Inc. Lebolo Construction Management, Inc. Baker Triangle Lewis Electrical LLC Balfour Beatty Construction Manhattan Construction Co. Braun Electric Company, Inc. McKee Electric Company BRYCON Construction Metro Elevator Co., Inc. Burton Construction Mobley Industrial Services, Inc. C. S. Beatty Construction, Inc. Niking Corporation Caddell Constrution Co., Inc. Oakridge Builders Cajun Industries, LLC Pala - Interstate, LLC Centennial Contractors Enterprises, Inc. Paulsen Construction Cianbro Corporation PCL Industrial Construction Company Citadel Builders, LLC Pedrick Sitework Contractors D.E. Harvey Builders, Inc. Rabalais I & E Constructors Flintco, LLC Repcon, Inc. Fogel-Anderson Construction Richard Construction, Inc. Fortune - Johnson General Contractors Rust Constructors, Inc. George & Lynch, Inc. S&B Engineers & Constructors Group Contractors, LLC SDV Construction Inc. Harper Limbach LLC Sollmann Electric Co. Hayward Electric Southern Industrial/Southern Crane Hensel-Phelps Construction Co. STARCON International, Inc. Herzog Contracting Corp. Stellar Huser Construction Co., Inc. Straub Construction, Inc. Insulations, Inc. Sturgeon Services International Interstates Companies Technip USA, Inc. ISC Constructors LLC The Brevard Company J.I. Garcia Construction, Inc. The Mundy Companies J.M. Coull, Inc. TIC - The Industrial Co. Jacobs Field Services, North America Valley Electrical Contractors James Construction Group, LLC W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Johnston Products of Dallas W.T. Byler Co. Juneau Construction Company, LLC Wurster Construction Co., Inc. Kwest Group
29 Index of all winners
A Chamberlin Roofing & H Waterproofing 5 Absolute Environmental Hayward Electric 24 Contractors, LLC 25 Coakley & Williams Construction, Inc. 25 Helix Electric 4 Adolfson & Peterson Hendrick Construction, Inc. Construction, Inc. 20, 25 Color Works Painting, Inc. 24 25 Aggregate Technologies, Hensel Phelps Construction Inc. 7, 24 Consolidated Construction Co., Inc. 14 Co. 19, 21, 27 All Star Electric, Inc. 4 Conti Federal Services, Inc. Hoar Construction, LLC 19, AMEC Power & Process 19 20 Americas 24 Crain Construction, Inc. 9 Hogg Construction, Inc. 8, American Infrastructure 28 21 ASSET Group, Inc. 25 Holes Incorporated 18 AUI Contractors, LLC 19 D hth companies, inc. 17, 25 D.E. Harvey Builders, Inc. Huser Construction 24 Company, Inc. 19 B DonahueFavret Contractors, B.L. Harbert International, Inc. 15 LLC 12, 15 I Benchmark Construction Ingram Enterprises, Inc. 5 Company, Inc. 21 E Interstates Companies 5, Bennett Builders, LLC 15 Encore Electric, Inc. 17 17, 25 Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC ENGlobal 25 ISC Constructors, LLC 24 13, 19 EXCEL Contractors, Inc. 10 Braun Electric Company, Inc. 24 J Breaking Ground F J.F. Allen Company 25 Contracting 21 Flintco, LLC 12, 20 Johnston Products of Dallas, Forrester Construction Inc. 17, 18 Company 20 Juneau Construction C Company, LLC 11 Caddell / Clark Joint Venture 11 G Caddell Construction G.E. Insulation Co. 25 K Co., Inc. 10, 20 Gibbs Construction, LLC 13, KBR Building Group | Turner Cajun Deep Foundations, 21 Construction Joint LLC 18 Venture 16 Gould Electric Inc. 17 Cajun Industries, LLC 25 Keystruct Construction, Inc. 24 Grimm Construction Centennial Contractors 25 Company, Inc. 21 Kwest Group 25
30 L P T Lake Mechanical PCL Industrial Construction T. E. Ibberson Company 19 Contractors, Inc. 17 24 TDIndustries, Inc. 17, 27 Lauren Engineers & PCL Industrial Services 25 The Mundy Companies 24 Constructors, Inc. 25 Performance Contractors, Todd & Sargent, Inc. 19 Lebolo Construction Inc. 19 Management, Inc. 24 Triad Electric & Controls, Pinkard Construction Inc. 17 Lee Company 6 Company 14, 24 Turner Industries Group, Leonard Contracting, Inc. 19 L.L.C. 17 Littler Mendelson, P.C. 27 R Lund-Ross Constructors, Inc. 13 Ref-Chem L.P. 25 U Robert Heely Construction, Underground Construction LP 25 Company, Inc. 24 M Robins & Morton 9 United Rentals 27 M&D Mechanical Roche Constructors, Inc. 8 Contractors, Inc. 6 Ruppert Landscape 7 Manhattan Construction V Company 20, 25 Valley Electrical Contractors, Metro - Total, JV 18 S Inc. 24 Metro Fence Company, Inc. 7 S & B Engineers and Middleman Construction Constructors, Ltd. 16 Company LLC 8 SEDALCO, INC. 19 W Miken Specialties, ltd. / A Skanska Shook 21 W.T. Byler Co. 24 Member of the Brock Skanska USA Building, Inc. Waldrop Mechanical Group 25 12 Services 6 MMR Constructors, Inc. 4 SpawGlass 19, 20, 21 White Construction Mobley Industrial Services, Company 19 SpawGlass Construction Inc. 24 Corporation 24 Wolverine Building Group Moon Construction Services, 21 STARCON International, Inc. Inc. 14 25 Starr Electric Company, Inc. N 17 Straub Construction, Inc. 20 Niking Corporation 25 Structure Tone Southwest 11 Notch Mechanical Constructors 25 Synergy Construction, Inc. 21
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