BLACKSBURG, Va., Oct. 22, 2012 ? Virginia Tech is a place where construction contractors are busy. Five different company logos are prominently displayed on the front gates of the building projects under way on campus. Those five companies -- Barton Malow Company, Gilbane Building Company, Holder Construction Company, Skanska USA, and The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company -- are five of the largest construction management firms in the country. All five are listed in the top 40 on Engineering News-Record?s current ?Top 400 Contractors List,? and their combined revenues for 2011 exceeded $15 billion.
These firms regularly compete against each other regionally and across the country. Each offers clients a variety of construction-related services in many market sectors. However, they all share a common goal: to provide a safe job site for the men and women who work on their projects.
To further that goal, these firms are joining forces with Virginia Tech to sponsor Virginia Tech Contractor Safety Week 2012. Starting Monday, Oct. 22, each job site will devote a day to focus on its safety challenges and to celebrate its safety successes. A small committee from each site will travel to the other campus job sites to learn firsthand how these companies promote safety. Each committee will include tradespeople and first-line supervisors -- the individuals that make it happen every day. Together, committee members will get a rare chance to collaborate with their peers on construction safety.
The featured event of safety week will be a round table discussion on construction safety involving senior safety professionals from each company. Together this group boasts of more than 100 years of hands-on experience covering all aspects of the construction industry.Topics will range from specific compliance programs to more general trends in the field. This event will be an open forum that encourages questions and comments from the audience.
The round table will be held Thursday, Oct. 25, from 4-6 p.m. at Bishop-Favrao Hall, Room 210. Members of the Virginia Tech and contractor communities who have an interest in construction safety through education, research, compliance, procurement, promotion, and innovation are invited to attend. Parking permits for off-campus attendees can be obtained at Virginia Tech's Visitor and Undergraduate Admissions Center, 965 Price?s Fork Road. Refreshments will be served following the program.
Virginia Tech Contractor Safety Week 2012 is sponsored by Virginia Tech?s Myers-Lawson School of Construction and the Occupational Safety and Health Research Center, supported and administered by Virginia Tech?s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied ?Science.
The Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science is a premier interdisciplinary research institute located at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. The core mission of the institute is to promote, stimulate, and catalyze interdisciplinary and collaborative research at the confluence of engineering, the physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and medicine. The Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science is realizing this mission by harnessing and leveraging the collective talents of Virginia Tech faculty, staff and students and nurturing them in the development and promotion of high-quality and internationally competitive research initiatives that are responsive to societal needs.? ?Strategic research initiatives in nanoscale science and engineering, molecular and cellular biology, sustainable development including energy, water and renewable materials, and cognition and communication have been identified in pursuit of this mission.
Source: http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2012/10/102212-ictas-safetyweek.html
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