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CONSTRUCTION SAFETY The Construction Safety Leadership Conference A Day to Benefit Safety Professionals
HEALTHCARE CONSTRUCTION BIM in Construction: Cyber-Stroll Through a Future Building and Foresee the Hazards
CRITTENTON HOSPITAL: RETHINKING THE RULES OF THE GAME IN THIS ISSUE: SUCCESSFUL “OPERATION” AT HENRY FORD WEST BLOOMFIELD HOSPITAL
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FEATURES LEGISLATIVE UPDATES 14 New Changes to Construction Industry Indemnity Contracts 16 2012 Lame Duck Legislative Session
24 Rethinking the Rules of the Game Crittenton Hospital Medical Center, Harley Ellis Devereaux and a joint venture of Barton Malow Company and Frank Rewold and Son, Inc. Create a Significant IPD Healthcare Project in Michigan
32 BIM in Construction: Cyber-Stroll Through a Future Building and Foresee the Hazards CONSTRUCTION HIGHLIGHT
18 SUSTAIN|ABILITY Is there a Drone in your Future? Aerial Photos of Site Survey and Construction Progress is Easier Than You Think
CONSTRUCTION SAFETY 34 Minimally Invasive Construction Turner and Albert Kahn Complete Successful “Operation” at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital
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Industry News Safety Tool Kit Marketing on the Level Product Showcase People in Construction/Corporate News Construction Calendar CAM Welcomes New Members Advertisers Index
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PRODUCTION DIRECTOR GRAPHIC DESIGN DIRECTOR OF MARKETING ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
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DIRECTORS OFFICERS Chairman
Gregory Andrzejewski PPG Industries
Vice Chairman
Kevin French Poncraft Door Company
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Todd W. Hill Ventcon, Inc.
Stephen J. Hohenshil Glasco Corporation
Mary K. Marble Marble Mechanical, LLC
Giuseppe (Joe) S. Palazzolo Detroit Spectrum Painters, Inc.
John W. Rieckhoff C.L. Rieckhoff Company, Inc.
Kevin F. Ryan Farbman Group/Huntington Construction
Donielle Wunderlich George W. Auch Company
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William L. Borch, Jr. Ironworkers Local Union 25
Gary Boyajian Consultant
Stevan Bratic Bratic Enterprises, LLC
Marty Burnstein Law Office of Marty Burnstein
George Dobrowitsky Walbridge
Daniel Englehart Peter Basso and Associates, Inc.
Chris Hippler Capital Letters
Dennis King Harley Ellis Devereaux
Nancy Marshall Aluminum Supply Company
Rick Rys Hi Def Color
James Vargo Capac Construction Company, Inc.
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Hobbs + Black Associates Inc. Makes Healthcare News Hobbs + Black Associates Inc., an architectural, engineering and interior design firm headquartered in Ann Arbor, is proud to announce their recent publication in the prestigious AIA Academy Journal of Architecture for Health. The article, A Sustainable Model: Creating Facilities with a Future, was the foremost feature in the 14th edition of the Academy Journal, which was published in late 2012. The article highlights how Hobbs + Black's ground breaking design of the Dearborn Town Center will serve as the gold standard for the future of medicine. Recent healthcare legislation and scientific breakthroughs in the field of medicine have come to shape requirements for new kinds of facilities better suited to modern healthcare needs. Hobbs + Black's experts in healthcare design have welcomed the shift toward a lifestyle of wellness, as opposed to medicine only for the sick. In order to meet the changing needs of the changing healthcare industry, our visionary team of premier architects endeavored to create a distinguished environment that can connect the lifestyles of patients to a wellness facility. The AIA Academy Journal selected Dearborn Town Center as an exemplary case study of superlative architecture for the future of sustainable healthcare. The facility's inventive design combines healthcare offices with retail and residential space. Dearborn Town Center is looked upon as the future direction of ambulatory care centers, which will need to integrate medicine with the lifestyles of community members. Hobbs + Black Associates, Inc. is also pleased to announce its Healthcare Environment Award from The Center for Healthcare Design for the Tucson Medical Center Pediatric Renovation project. With the Healthcare Environment Award, the Center for Health Design recognizes excellence in new or renovated healthcare facility design. The purpose is to recognize innovative environments that contribute to the quality of healthcare. For over 80 years Tucson Medical Center has been the leading provider of comprehensive healthcare services to greater Tucson and the Southern Arizona region. The hospital is widely known for a number of specialties including Women’s and Children’s Health Care. Tucson Medical Center has positioned itself to be the leader in Children’s and Women’s services for the next generation and continuing its long tradition of service to the families of Tucson. The Pediatrics Expansion expands the hospital in order to provide all private Mother Baby patient rooms. The expansion added 13 Mother Baby rooms and 13 converted from semi-private to private rooms for a total of 60 private Mother Baby rooms. The project created a new Identifiable Children’s Hospital with its own entrance, patient and family focused activity center, and the development of all private pediatric rooms. The expansion adds 16 Pediatric rooms and converts 10 from semi-private to private rooms for 44 private pediatric rooms. Conducive to the children’s environment, Tucson Medical Center sought to have a very special environment for their new Pediatrics Unit. The facility expansion is circular, with all of the new private patient rooms surrounding a commons. Features of the commons includes a visible family room available for family interaction, movie night and sharing, a teen room that supports the somewhat different needs of teenagers in a unit with such a variance in population age, a library, conferencing and staff nursing and work space.
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Of particular attention in the commons area is the integration of a pecan tree in the library space. Pecans are native to the region and the branches extend across the sky enhanced ceiling, which turns to a starry sky in the evening. The TMC Children’s Hospital project was published in the December issue of HEALTHCARE DESIGN. Hobbs + Black was founded in 1965 and has full service regional offices in Ann Arbor, Lansing, and Phoenix, AZ.
Gateway Safety Launches New Website Featuring Interactive, Product-Centric Design In coordination with the 100th anniversary of the National Safety Council, Gateway Safety has launched a new website at www.GatewaySafety.com. The site is heavily focused on the company’s products, presenting them in a clear, easy-to-navigate format. Visitors will enjoy a very personal, interactive experience that offers several different paths and options to obtain information on safety products in the Eye, Head + Face, Hearing, and Respiratory Protection categories. Each individual product page displays the unique features and benefits of Gateway Safety’s products in a hands-on, rollover format. “We looked at which areas generated the most traffic on our previous site and what trends were most successful,” explains Katie Mielcarek, marketing coordinator at Gateway Safety, who led the redesign effort. “We also gathered valuable input from customers and users of the site and incorporated these ideas into the new design.” The new website still incorporates the highly popular “Distributor Center,” a section tailored specifically to the needs of Gateway Safety distribution partners. Here, distributors will find helpful support tools, such as product images, literature, and sales rep contact information. Brand new to the site is the “Real Life Stories” section, which hosts testimonials and striking photos from Gateway Safety product users. However, according to Mielcarek, the most popular new section of the site just might be the “Junior Fan Club,” where the youngest Gateway Safety fans will get the opportunity to strut their stuff. Visit the new www.GatewaySafety.com to check them out! For more than 65 years, Gateway Safety has been designing and manufacturing award-winning, cost-effective safety products in eye, face, head, hearing, and respiratory protection. Gateway Safety works hard to provide personal protective equipment that workers want to wear––helping companies increase safety compliance, improve the overall welfare of their employees, and reduce the high costs associated with workplace injuries. With many products independently certified to meet ANSI and CSA standards, Gateway Safety ensures its products are safe, durable, and of the highest quality. For more information, contact: Gateway Safety, Inc., 11111 Memphis Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44144. Phone: 800-822-5347. Fax: 216-889-1200. Web: www.GatewaySafety.com/PR. E-mail: marketing@gatewaysafety.com.
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Ghafari Announces Launch of vPlanner New visual planning software solution facilitating collaborative project management now available for enterprise and project licensing Dearborn-based Ghafari Associates, a leading provider of architecture, engineering, consulting and construction management services, announced the official launch of vPlanner™, a new visual planning and control software solution that supports lean project delivery. Ghafari, recognized industry-wide as an organization at the technological forefront and a champion of lean principles, developed vPlanner to facilitate collaborative design and construction planning by providing a clear visual representation of the logic behind complex project work plans. The solution is now available for licensing on a project-by-project basis or through an enterprise subscription. vPlanner is designed to streamline project pull-planning activities, particularly in multi-discipline situations with overlapping criteria and complex deliverables, for which transparency of the
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overall project plan and its dependencies is critical. It provides a robust and integrated interface that maintains the visual aspects of the planning process using virtual "post-it notes" and supplements them with scheduling, tracking and reporting capabilities. As a client-server application, vPlanner allows multiple users to remotely access and contribute to the development of the overall project plan. Other key features of the solution include multi-attribute visual task fillers, visual groups, real-time layouts, forecasting, last responsible moment calculation, path length visualization, timeline views, task reports and plan completion tracking and reporting. Ghafari developed vPlanner around the methodologies and best practices that it has used to successfully manage a number of 3Denabled, highly collaborative projects that embrace lean principles. These projects have each achieved impressive metrics related to quality, schedule, cost and safety. vPlanner's beta version has already accumulated an impressive list of early adopters, including owners, contractors, architects and engineers from around the country. Ghafari is a leading full-service architecture, engineering, consulting and construction management organization with a 30year history of client focus, quality design and technological innovation. For more information on vPlanner, please visit vplanner.ghafari.com.
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Broder & Sachse Champions Detroit Revitalization Efforts; Buys Office Building Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services, Inc. has announced its purchased of 440 East Congress, an 80,000-square-foot downtown Detroit office building and parking structure, as the company continues its focus on helping to redevelop the city. The purchase is Broder & Sachse’s second project in Detroit. Currently, the five-story building is partially occupied with seven tenants, including the law firm Keller Thoma and Neighborhood Legal Services Michigan. The 90-year old building was renovated in the 1980s. Broder & Sachse will work with contractor Sachse Construction, Birmingham, which has been an integral part of the Rock Ventures developments, and Neumann/Smith Architecture, Southfield, to revamp the common area, exteriors and tenant space. Friedman
Integrated Real Estate Solutions will lease the space. “We believe in Detroit and want to be an active participant in helping to rebuild the Motor City. Many exciting development projects are in the works, especially along the Woodward Avenue corridor. We felt it was a perfect time to grow our investments in Detroit,� said Richard Broder, C.P.M., CEO, Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services. “One of the many reasons we really like this property is because of the convenient on-site parking, which will be a draw for future tenants,� said Broder. “As more and more businesses move into the city, parking will be at a premium, and we’ll be wellpositioned competitively.� Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services, Inc. is a full service commercial, multi-family residential and industrial real estate company. The company provides property management and related services to a diverse portfolio of over 90 properties and 10 million square feet of space. They also provide receivership, construction management, acquisition, development and other real estate consulting services to local and international private investors, institutional clients, and corporations.
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SAFETY TOOL KIT The GHS – Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals: What is it? By Daniel E. Strecker, C.R.S. Technologies, Inc. "A globally harmonized hazard classification and compatible labeling system, including material safety data sheets and easily understandable symbols, should be available, if feasible, by the year 2000." - International mandate from UNCED Agenda 21, Chapter 19. simple paragraph written in 1992 and populated by just twentyseven words – words that if they were written in any number of other ways, would not have had nearly the impact they had on the global hazardous materials market or the health, safety and environmental community. A few years ago I was blessed with the responsibility of managing all hazardous materials for a large commercial shipyard. Up until then, I had only heard and read bits and pieces about “The GHS.” My assumption was that it was simply yet another set of regulations whose sole purpose would be to make my life miserable as the newly minted hazardous materials manager. What I found as I began to research my new responsibilities was that the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals is actually not a regulation or standard. The GHS simply established agreed upon hazard classification and communication provisions and provided explanatory information on how to apply that system universally. In the U.S. alone, there were requirements for the classification and labeling of chemicals that fell under the auspices of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency and OSHA. By providing a mechanism to meet the basic requirements of any hazard communication system, which is to decide if a chemical product is hazardous and then preparing a label or Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) as appropriate, the GHS allows each company to take the agreed upon criteria and provisions and implement them throughout their existing regulatory process thereby satisfying the requirements of this patchwork of federal agencies. On March 26, 2012 the United States Federal Register published the final rule as HazCom 2012 and it became effective May 26, 2012.The changes implemented by HazCom 2012 brought the Hazard Communication Standard – 29 CFR 1910.1200in line with the GHS. The new rule is designed to provide your employees with easily understandable information on the safe handling and use of hazardous chemicals, specific criteria for the classification of health and physical hazards and it requires chemical manufacturers to provide labels that include a harmonized signal word, pictogram, and hazard statement for each hazard class and category along with precautionary statements and a specified 16-section format for the MSDS. “What are the benefits of the GHS?” The tangible benefits to companies include: Providing a safer work environment; allowing for improved relations with employees; an increase in efficiency and reduced costs from compliance with hazard communication regulations; application of expert systems resulting in maximizing expert resources and minimizing labor and costs; facilitation of electronic transmission systems with international scope; expanded use
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of training programs on health and safety; reduced costs due to fewer accidents and illnesses; and improved corporate image and credibility. “How long do I have to comply?” HazCom 2012 had an effective date of May 25, 2012. But although the rule is in effect, changes do not occur overnight and OSHA has built in adequate time for completing each task. Employers have until December 1, 2013 to train employees on the new label elements and material safety data sheet format. And they have until June 2016 to fully implement all aspects of HazCom 2012, including hazard classification, new labeling, and training. Chemical producers, manufacturers, importers, and distributors have until June 1, 2015 to fully comply with modifications required by the GHS, with one exception. They may continue to ship products with the current labels until December 1, 2015.
“How do I go about getting ready to implement HazCom 2012?” This will depend on the specific needs of your organization.The only constant factor every organization must take into consideration is time.As previously stated, by December 1, 2013 OSHA requires that all employees be trained on the update to 29 CFR 1910.1200, and by June 1, 2015, organizations must be compliant with all modified provisions of HazCom 2012. What you do from here on out will determine if you are successful in hitting the deadlines. Don’t let those seemingly distant dates deceive you – they’ll sneak up on you if you aren’t prepared.The first step in approaching GHS should be to create a transition plan and start allocating resources directly to your organization’s GHS transition efforts.With that in mind, EHS departments must balance their current workload with everything that needs to be completed to ensure compliance with GHS.This makes putting a comprehensive plan in place all the more valuable to your organization’s successful transition to the new provisions.
Your transition plan should account for: • A Timetable – While the dates are set as to when everyone must comply with HazCom 2012, you can control your internal timetable and delivery dates. • Training – As of the preparation of this article, you have just 10 short months until your employees must be trained. Compiling training materials now ensures your team will be better prepared and ready to train your current and future employees on new pictogram definitions, signal words, hazard classification categories and the new MSDS format. So what can you expect from the GHS? You can expect the new standard to greatly contribute to creating a safer, more efficient working environment and lead to potential cost savings as well.While the GHS transition may seem overwhelming and taxing to an already full workload, organizations that employ the right mix of people, process and technology should have plenty of runway ahead to adopt the updated standards on time or even ahead of schedule.
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Looking for New Business? Leverage Your Past Work By Chris Hippler he quality of your work will always be the foundations of your business. That’s why repeat customers are so valuable; they use your services or products over and over because they know you do good work. But how do you spread the word about your work to attract new business? There are many marketing tactics that can help do the job, but these three have the broadest application, and can yield the best results.
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KEEP YOUR WEBSITE CURRENT Your website is the single most important marketing tool for your business. If your website is over three years old, it’s due for an overhaul. Web technology is constantly evolving; a once state-ofthe-art website can become a relic quickly and reflect poorly on your business. Your website is the online presence of your company and, increasingly, the Internet is the preferred way people research businesses. Word-of-mouth has become word-of-mouse. The website of CAM members should focus on relationships (testimonials), quality of work (case studies), and business credentials (years in business, references, professional organizations, etc.). A regularly updated News/Press Release section or blog will ensure good crawl coverage from Search Engines, which use complex computer algorithms. One factor is whether your website is providing new quality information. The more it produces, the higher it is likely to be ranked. Developing a website is not for rookies. Your site has to look good, and function well. A professionally developed website adds credibility to your company. You do good work. Now, spread the word and attract new business. Chris Hippler is the President of Capital Letters, (www.capitallettersmarketing.com) a business-to-business marketing company that specializes in the commercial and industrial construction industry. Based in Ann Arbor, Capital Letters focuses on getting results for clients through print and online communications. Chris can be reached by phone at (734) 353-9918 or e-mail at chris@capitallettersmarketing.com
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LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
New Changes to Construction Industry Indemnity Contracts By Noreen L. Slank, Collins Einhorn Farrell, PC Jr.: Dad, I’ve been reading our contracts. What’s indemnity? Sr.: The indemnifying company is the stuckee. The stuckee agrees to hold the other side harmless. Jr.: Harmless from what? Sr.: From everything. Jr.: Everything? Sr.: Everything that’s in any way connected to its work. Except if it’s the other side’s sole negligence. Jr.: So why is it fair to make somebody pay for any part of somebody else’s fault? Sr.: Fair? Indemnity shifts risk. Fair doesn’t matter. Fairness is not something that gets mentioned much in the same sentence as indemnity contracts. When cross-complaints and third-party complaints start flying after a construction accident loss, what’s fair doesn’t control. The words of the contract control. Owners, architects and engineers seek indemnity from general contractors. General contractors have their subcontractors agree to indemnify them. And there may be step-over clauses that incorporate upstream language so that downstream indemnifiers assume the same holdharmless obligations that others in the “river” of contracts assumed. There may even be mutual indemnity obligations to sort out. Sometimes the puzzle pieces fit together and when everyone is done tendering the defense of the lawsuit to others in the mix, order emerges from the contractual chaos. Sometimes the parties’ comprehensive general liability insurers are allies in taming the chaos. Often not. The culprit or hero - depending on how
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you view this kind of contractual risk-shifting - is a law that Michigan passed in 1966. It’s not a Michigan invention, though. Many states have the same law. Its nickname among lawyers is the “antiindemnity statute.” This law regulates only construction-industry indemnity contracts. It regulates construction contracts and contracts to repair, maintain, move and demolish structures. If you agree to hold someone harmless for “any and all” claims and lawsuits connected to your work in contracts not governed by this anti-indemnity statute, the contract will kick in and shift the risk. But if the antiindemnity statute applies, the party on the power end of the indemnity contract is not allowed to shift the risk if the injury or damage is caused by or results from that party’s “sole negligence.” And when a construction-industry indemnity contract doesn’t contain the sole-negligence exception, courts will apply the contract just as if it did. That’s how MCL 691.991 worked until the Legislature changed it, effective March 1, 2013. The amendments broaden this law’s reach. Instead of being limited basically to contracts that impact structures, it will now specifically also apply to contracts involving “a highway, road, bridge, water line, sewer line, or other infrastructure, or any other improvements to real property.” And instead of only applying to “construction, alteration, repair or maintenance” and related “moving, demolition and excavation,” the amended law will also apply to contracts for the “design” of these improvements. The sole-negligence exception is tricky. What at first seems clear often becomes murky during litigation. The exception doesn’t mean that the indemnifying party must be negligent to activate its indemnity obligation. The exception requires the party seeking indemnity to either not be negligent or prove that someone else is negligent. Finding another negligent party anywhere is good enough. If the stuckee
under the indemnity contract was negligent, the risk will shift. If a stranger to the contract was negligent, that will do nicely. If the injured worker or his employer was negligent, that negates the sole-negligence exception and activates the indemnity obligation. So this statute can create strange litigation dynamics. A subcontractor sued by an injured worker must decide if it wants to pursue a comparative-fault argument against the worker. It knows that proving that worker’s fault will decrease the damages owed. But it could also negate the sole-negligence exception and cause the general contractor’s share of damages to shift to the sub. Those dynamics persist under the new statute. This amendment provides relief in one context: contracts required by “a public entity.” Indemnity contracts with public entities can no longer require contractors or others in protected categories to agree “to defend” the public entity “or any other party” from claims. Protected entities are contractors and Michigan-licensed architects, professional engineers, landscape architects and professional surveyors. This new rule means that public entities won’t be able to shift attorney fees and costs to others in the mix. And indemnity, in the sense of shifting the consequences of someone’s fault to another, won’t happen at all as to the part of the liability that settles on the public entity. The new law says that the public entity can’t require a protected party to “assume any liability or [to] indemnify” the public entity or anyone else “for any amount greater than the degree of fault” of the protected party. These changes create greater contractual fairness when public-entity projects are involved. Whatever fault settles on the public entity stays there and can’t shift to others. Others in the contractual mix are still free to extract whatever indemnity obligation they decide serves their interest, subject to the sole-negligence exception. But the damages potentially being “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®
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contractually redistributed will not need to include any damages that the public entity owes. The harshness of indemnity is tamed some. To keep this harshness tamed, those involved in public-entity projects should conform their contracts to make sure nothing can contractually trump the benefits of the new amendment. If a general’s contracts continue to require subs to indemnify a public entity/owner, some will argue that the public entity’s damages can still shift to the sub because the sub’s indemnity obligation was not created or required by the public entity. Once the lawyers get to work with this new statute, there will be other arguments about the more difficult public entity sections. One of the early questions may be whether every protected party’s own share of fault includes the fault of its subcontractors and subconsultants. Another is whether the changes apply only to contracts signed after the March 1, 2013 effective date or to damages that occur after that date. And now for some important fine print. For the most part, a “public entity” under these new changes is exactly who we all think they are. But “public entity does not include institutions of higher education” as set out in two sections of Michigan’s Constitution “or their employees or agents.” The universities resisted these changes mightily. The changes are government unfriendly, so one might marvel at how they came about at all rather than grumble over who they don’t apply to. The changes are business friendly, so that must be a big part of the answer. But another big part of the equation is that CAM and a legislative-savvy coalition created the right environment in Lansing to get this job done. John Raimondo, a director at Roncelli, Inc., chairs CAM’s Government Affairs Committee. He explained that, “CAM’s involvement was instrumental in getting this passed. There was a point where it was DOA. Our voice helped. CAM made a difference.”
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LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
ollowing is a brief report of the bills that CAM was watching during the past lame duck session. CAM’s lobbyists, Kindsvatter, Dalling & Associates, were at the Capitol until session ended at 4:30 am, lobbying on behalf of CAM’s interests. CAM was active on a few pieces of legislation and was closely monitoring others.
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structure, appurtenance, and appliance, that purports to indemnify the promisee against liability for damages arising out of bodily injury or property damage caused by or resulting from the sole negligence of the promisee or indemnitee, is against public policy and is void and unenforceable. ● PREVAILING WAGE It was believed that the Michigan Legislature intended to take up legislation to John Raimondo repeal prevailing wage requirements on school construction work during the “lame duck” legislative session this year. House and Senate leadership was rumored to have already agreed to pass the legislation repealing prevailing wage. The Construction Association of Michigan took a position alongside AGC in opposition and was successful in defeating this legislation. It is believed that bills will be introduced again this year to repeal prevailing wage. ● SCHOOL BOND LOANS CAM joined several other interest groups in opposition as this legislation will reduce school construction across the state. The legislation was a top priority for the Department of Treasury and ultimately the Governor, who signed the legislation into law. The School Bond Loan Legislation sets some limits on school bonding (SB 770, SB 771 and SB 772) was approved by the Senate on its final session day. SB 770 and SB 772 passed along party-line votes, 26-12, with Republicans in support of the legislation and Democrats in opposition. SB 771 only needed to be granted immediate effect by the chamber. The series of bills makes the following revisions to the School Bond Loan Program: ● Restricts availability of qualified loans for new bond issues after the outstanding loan balance reaches $1.8 billion. The cap would sunset on June 30, 2016. ● Sets a single final mandatory repayment date by which all qualified loans, whenever made, must be repaid. ● Allows districts to issue additional bonds and have a later final mandatory repayment date if the district levies an increased millage rate. ● Requires that the millage rate necessary to repay all qualified bonds and qualified loans be recalculated annually based on changes in taxable values, the issuance of new money bonds or refunding bonds, and other circumstances. The recomputed millage would be capped to the extent the district's taxable value declined. “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®
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● PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX REFORM Repealing Personal Property Tax (PPT) Reform was a priority for the Governor, Speaker, and Majority Leader and was signed into law by the Governor. The plan approved does not provide communities with full revenue replacement. That legislation phases out the industrial portion of the tax from 2016-22 with local governments receiving replacement of 80 percent of the revenue they lose, provided the lost revenue equals at least 2.3 percent of a local government's total property tax revenues. That 2.3 percent threshold was lowered from the previous level of 2.5 percent. Local governments can then use a special assessment on industrial property to replace 100 percent of lost revenue for police, fire and ambulance and, under an amendment from the House, jail operations. But the replacement funds will come largely from the use tax, which requires voter approval in the August 2014 primary election to change its current distribution among state funds. Because all the bills are now tied to HB 6026 that makes that change, they all require voter approval for the PPT on industrial property to begin phasing out. Left mostly untouched is the personal property tax on commercial and utility personal property. However, some commercial personal property holders will get a break. Starting in the 2013-14 fiscal year, businesses with less the $40,000 in total commercial or industrial personal property in any one jurisdiction would not have to pay personal property tax to that jurisdiction. All industrial personal property purchased after 2011 will be exempt in fiscal year 2015-16. Then industrial personal property would become exempt as it reaches 10 years old beginning in fiscal year 2015-16. The Act creates a Metropolitan Area, essentially a statewide authority that will accept the use tax funds (between 1 to 1.5 Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com
cents of every 6 cents on the dollar of the tax) and redistribute them to qualifying communities. ● RIGHT TO WORK Michigan has become the 24th state in the union to have a law barring workers with unionized employers from having to pay union dues or a fee. These bills exempt police and fire, however it will impact all other union shops.The law will become effective in the last week of March 2013. ● ALLOW FOR UPDATE TO UNIFORM CONSTRUCTION CODE EVERY SIX YEARS, RATHER THAN EVERY THREE YEARS CAM closely monitored House Bill 4561 sponsored by Representative Joe Haveman (RHolland) which amends the Uniform Construction Code to increase the timeframe in which the director of the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs mustupdate the code from not less than once every three years to not less than once every six years or more than once every three years. The new law amends the Single State Construction Code Act to do the following: ● Includes the International Existing Building Code and the International Energy Conservation Code in the State Construction Code. ● Removes the Michigan Uniform Energy Code from the State Construction Code. ● Requires the Director of the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), within 90 days after the bill's effective date, to begin the process to add, amend, and rescind rules to update the Michigan Residential Code, including the residential energy code chapter. ● Beginning with the 2015 national code change cycle, requires the Director to add, amend, and rescind rules to update the Michigan residential code every three to six years, as the Director determined appropriate. ● Requires the LARA Director to hold a public meeting and give people an opportunity to present data and comments before issuing a written determination as to whether to update the Michigan Residential Code. ● If the LARA Director decides not to update the Michigan Residential Code, allows a person to request the Director to promulgate a rule to amend a section or sections of that code. ● Requires the Director to initiate a rule or give the principal reasons for denying a request to amend the Residential Code, within 90 days after the request was filed, and provides that a denial would not be subject to judicial review. The law as passed also specifies that if the Michigan Residential Code were updated on a
six-year cycle, use of a material, product, method of manufacture, or method or manner of construction or installation provided for in an interim edition of the International Residential Code would be authorized throughout Michigan and would have to be permitted, but could not be mandated, by an enforcing agency or its building official or inspectors. If a material, product, or method in the interim edition were used, however, the enforcing agency, official, or inspectors could require the use to comply with all applicable requirements in the interim edition.
2013 LEGILSATIVE INITIATIVE ● TRANSPORTATION FUNDING Transportation funding is on top of Governor Rick Snyder’s list stemming from his State of the State address to the Michigan Legislature. The Senate has already begun working on their solution as they have introduced 4 out of the expected 9 bill packages, Senate Bills 83-87. The bills are led by Senate Appropriations Chairman, Senator Roger Kahn (R-Saginaw Twp.) and are expected to raise $1.6 billion in new revenue for the transportation revenue. The bill package has three parts: 1) Staturory revenue increases (fuel taxes and registration taxes) 2) A Joint resolution and accompanying companion bills that shift the state from a fuel tax to a sales and use tax for maintaining Michigan’s road network, which will increase the Michigan sales tax from 6% to 8%. 3) A bill that provides certain reforms that will gain a small revenue increase but help with efficiency. The bill package is expected to move very quickly as the Senate would like to see this on the ballot in August of 2013 which means the Governor has to sign the bills in March. The goal the Senate seeks is to create an either/or situation for the voters, similar to Proposal A’s Education funding solution. The legislative package will generate $1.6 Billion in new revenue through an increase in the gas tax and registration. The voters will then have an opportunity to vote on increasing the sales tax by 2%, dedicating this new tax increase to our transportation infrastructure or increasing the gas tax and registration fee increase in August. There will not be a do nothing option, it’s an either/or meaning sales tax increase or gas tax and registration fee increase. As of February 4th, The Michigan House of Representatives has yet to introduce their package of bills on transportation funding. It is expected that the House will have a different version than the Senate and Governor on transportation funding. CAM MAGAZINE
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IS THERE A DRONE IN YOUR FUTURE? Aerial Photos of Site Survey and Construction Progress is Easier Than You Think By Douglas Elbinger, Energy Policy Analyst, Greenlancer Energy, Inc.
ou may have noticed a flurry of activity in current business news that the “drone” is about to take off. You know that the military has been using drones with great success for years, and if you’ve been wondering when the commercial version will be available so you can get your hands on it… well, it’s here. I first noticed the “toy drone” advertised in one of those expensive gift catalogs from Christmas, several years ago. It’s a multi-copter type gadget that flies around your house or outdoors and you control it by remote control, or “RC.” According to tech expert Chris Anderson, of WIRED* Magazine, “It’s safe to say that drones are the first technology in history where the toy industry and hobbyists are beating the military-industrial complex at its own game.” Essentially, personal (hobbyist) and commercial drones have become the next new thing in high-tech gadgets. Unofficial industry estimates peg growth of personal drones in the U.S. from about 200 in 2007 to tens of thousands in 2012. Now fast forward to the commercial grade, industrial strength, UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and imagine that you can easily fly up to the roof of a three-story building and perform a detailed roof inspection with a high-resolution video camera that you can view in real time on your iPad with startling high definition. Whatever you call it - UAV, Quadra copter, drone, bird, multi-copter, camera ship – these devices embed a lot of technology that involves computer autopilots, high-resolution cameras, high speed wireless data connections for video and telemetry, and ground stations in the form of joy-sticks with heads-up displays and real-time video streaming to your mobile device. Not to mention extremely light and strong composite airframe materials with the most advanced battery systems. Commercial drones are typically guided by a GPS or “line-ofsight,” controlled by an operating system on your smart-phone, iPad, or other mobile device. These commercial grade UAVs also incorporate sophisticated technology such as gyroscopes, which measure rates of rotation; magnetometers, which function as digital compasses; pressure sensors, which measure atmospheric pressure to calculate altitude; and accelerometers, to measure the force of gravity - all the capabilities of these technologies are now
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This photo shows Mr. Arnold’s helicopter, a modified Trex-500 camera ship. It’s a standard remote-controlled helicopter with a modified 4 blade head and camera gimbal. It's carrying a Sony Nex-5 with kit lens. In the foreground is the radio transmitter, a 'Spektrum DX-8'.
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embedded in tiny chips that you can buy off the shelf and assembled at home. From another perspective, the difference between the $140 million military drone that flies around Afghanistan at 60,000 feet for 32 hours and carries weapons and yours, is that yours will cost a few thousand dollars and carry a HD video camera up to 400 feet and fly for 20 minutes that you control from your iPhone or other mobile device. As it stands, you don’t need an advanced degree in electronics or FAA certification to fly these on your own …however there is a long learning curve to master the complexities of flying while performing photography and operating control software. Unless you want to do this as a hobby, I’d say hire it done when you need it. As with every new technology, (remember when night-vision technology was only available to the military?) drones have followed the “Moore’s law” curve of increasing performance and decreasing in price to the point where your kids can play with them at home, and more sophisticated models with camera payload are available to do real work on a jobsite. Enough about the technology. You’re probably wondering, “What can this do for me?” As personal or commercial drones become more reliable, practical applications are emerging, especially in the construction and real estate industry. In my search to find someone to do aerial photography of a solar panel installation on a two-story construction project in winter, I discovered one of the area’s leading experts in remote control UAV’s, Harry Arnold, who just happens to be an RC professional and a professional videographer. He explained why he designs and builds his own “birds” that can be flown in any weather. Out of the box commercial UAVs are often too flimsy, have control problems, and tend to break easily if they bump something or have a hard landing. “I build my own airframe and use off-the-shelf flight and control components that I can fix inexpensively and quickly. I design my ‘birds’ to fly in any weather, day or night. I’m also experimenting with infrared and nightvision video.” WHO ARE YOUR TYPICAL CLIENTS? We started out working with construction companies who want low-level aerial site surveys, at a fraction of the cost of hiring a helicopter. When they discovered how fast, versatile, and cost effective this was, they decided to do construction progress videos to beam up to the owners and investors. Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com
When architects, landscape designers, and other subcontractors on the job saw these videos they wanted copies for their own portfolio. The photo-equipped drone bridges the qualitative gap between what you get from Google Earth which is free, and a $1,500 an hour helicopter, pilot and photographer. On a cost benefit, there is no contest. For facility
planning, parking lot and lighting design, and site planning, photo drones are cost effective enough to displace the use of Google Earth and are far less expensive and dangerous than manned helicopters. WHO BENEFITS? Having real-time construction progress documented in video is a valuable
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custom-built radio controlled vehicle to lift camera gear to where it’s needed. Most RC helicopters and UAVs operate within 500 feet of the ground, so RC is a great solution for those close fly-bys. Prices are surprisingly reasonable and Arnold will quote your specific job at no cost or obligation. Based in Detroit, he can fly out of any feasible location. Due to the explosive growth in the use of hobby and commercial drones, there is still a wide “grey” area in the law regarding the use of drones for commercial purposes. Although drones technically aren’t supposed to be used commercially in the U.S., you are okay if you stay below 400 feet, fly within visual line of sight, and away from populated areas, airports, and other restricted air space. The FAA is planning to officially release guidelines to allow commercial use starting in 2015. To learn more about using drone photography on your construction site in the Detroit area contact: Mr. Harry Arnold, Detroit Drone harry@detroitdrone.com www.detroitdrone.com *See complete feature article on the drone boom By Chris Anderson in Wired Magazine / June 2012 http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/0 6/ff_drones/all/ Try this your self as a hobby? Buy a kit ready to fly from DJI: http://www.dji-innovations.com
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Doug Elbinger’s career spans over 35 years as an innovator in management and corporate communications. For many years, as an environmental journalist and producer for ENN.com, he focused his efforts on acquiring an in-depth knowledge of advances and investment opportunities in the renewable energy industry. For more information, comments or dialog, please contact Doug Elbinger delbinger@greenlancer.com – Energy Policy Analyst, Greenlancer Energy Inc. Greenlancer is a renewable energy engineering and consulting firm in Detroit http://www.greenlancer.com. “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®
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n o i t C U r ConSt SAfety P i H S r e D le A e C n e r e f Con A DAy to Benefit SAfety ProfeSSionAlS By Tracey Alfonsi, CAM Director of Education and Safety Services n Wednesday, December 5, 2012, over one hundred safety professionals, project managers, business owners, vendors and instructors gathered at the Detroit-Livonia Marriott for the Construction Safety Leadership Conference. This full day event got its start back in 2006 when it was designed as a Safety Workshop for field personnel.
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us that it was time to shift our focus. In March 2012, select members of the CAM Safety Committee met with representatives of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) to come up with a plan for a new kind of event. The planning committee included myself, Joe Forgue of JMF Safety, Carl Granger of Woods Construction, Rebecca Drzewiecki of Kelly Services, Steve Aleo of Walsh Construction, and Sean Drzewiecki of Henkel. Together we made the decision to shift the focus from field personnel to management personnel with a responsibility for supervising or implementing safe practices on the worksite. Once the “who” was decided, we began the arduous task of selecting the “what” –
specifically, what topics would be of interest to a diverse group of construction-related personnel? General contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and even some general industry companies would be represented in our audience and it was important we provide instruction addressing subjects that could be universally applied across disciplines. We started with a list of more than thirty topics and eventually narrowed it down to the following twelve: Writing a Safety Manual; Subcontractor Management; Working Safely Without Supervision; EMR/DART/LWD; Pre-Task Planning; PPE Selection; Accident Investigation; Return to Work/Injury Management; Professional Safety Certifications (CSP/ASP); MIOSHA Inspections/Citations; Fleet Safety Programs; and What Does OSHA Certified Mean? We classified each topic as basic, intermediate, or advanced, and hammered out a list of our colleagues who could provide instruction on one or more of the selected topics. THE EXECUTION Predicting what people want is part finger-on-the-pulse, part speculation, and a whole lot of crystal ball consultation. But in this case, we were right on target. Immediately after the conference information was released, registrations started to pour in. We were concerned that one or two of our topics wouldn’t be popular enough to hold the class, but that didn’t turn out to be the case. By November 15th, well in advance of our cut-off date, we stopped accepting registrations because we were simply out of space – all twelve sessions were completely booked. In addition, we sold out all of the available tabletop displays for our vendors. During the lunch session, Martha Yoder, director of MIOSHA, gave everyone some insight about what’s happening in Lansing. She explained how to take advantage of MIOSHA’s services and programs and encouraged everyone to keep up the good work. Yoder praised the efforts of the safety leaders in the room and noted that our efforts in 2012 resulted in Michigan being on track to have the lowest number of workrelated fatalities since the beginning of the MIOSHA program. MOVING FORWARD 65% of the attendees returned their seminar evaluation form. Many included praise such as, “knowledgeable instructors” and “valuable information”. Suggestions for improvement such as, “need to focus on smaller subcontractors” and “need more examples of how-to” will be valuable for
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From left to right: Martha Yoder, MIOSHA; Aaron Munoz, Safety Manager at Limbach Company; and Tracey Alfonsi, Director of Education and Safety Services at the Construction Association of Michigan (CAM).
guiding us as we begin to plan for the 2013 safety training event. I have reviewed each and every evaluation form and followed up
with a few of the participants in response to some of the comments they provided. The Construction Safety Leadership
Conference wouldn’t have been possible without our sponsors. Event sponsors included: Broner Glove and Safety; Marathon; Walsh Construction; and Oakland University. Tabletop sponsors included: Cintas First Aid & Safety; SVS Safety; Edge Eyewear; Efficiency Production; Sdi Systems; CAMCOMP; and MSA. Their post-conference input is another important tool for future events. We learned that there is a fine line between being closely located for convenience and an overcrowded hallway! We also found out that football-shaped stress balls are a popular give-away item. The 2013 Safety Leadership Conference will be held on Wednesday, December 4, 2013. We are in the beginning stages of selecting a larger location and making a list of the subjects that might make a good presentation. I expect that some of our more popular topics, such as subcontractor management and pre-task planning, will return to the agenda. As always, your input and suggestions are greatly appreciated. If there’s something you’d like to see at the next conference, please don’t hesitate to contact me at alfonsi@cam-online.com.
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Rethinking the Rules of the Game By Mary E. Kremposky, Associate Editor pioneering hospital and project team have taken a well-calculated leap of faith into the brave new world of Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). In building the new Cornerstone South Tower addition, Crittenton Hospital Medical Center, Harley Ellis Devereaux and a joint venture of Barton Malow Company and Frank Rewold and Son, Inc. (Barton Malow Rewold LLC) have created one of the first IPD healthcare projects of significant size in Michigan. The results at this 165,000-squarefoot patient bed tower in Rochester Hills prove the worth of the method: equal in quality but lower in cost per-square-foot than comparable
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Photos Courtesy of Barton Malow Rewold, LLC buildings in the region, half the number of Requests for Information (RFI), and an astoundingly low contingency for a $65 million project with a $56 million construction price tag. “This is a shining project,” said Monte Oberlee, Administrator – Environment of Care, Crittenton Hospital Medical Center. “This group has done an outstanding job with something that is new and fresh.” IPD is a collaborative, group “mind meld” drawing together the architect, contractor and key subcontractors from the project’s very inception. Early assembly of a diverse project
team translated into less redesign and reduced costs. “One of the biggest factors in IPD is being able to make more decisions earlier in the process,” said C. Richard Hall, FAIA, Harley Ellis Devereaux, Principal, Healthcare. Unlike traditional projects, Crittenton’s South Tower was created under a single contract linking owner, architect and contractor. By contract, Building Information Modeling (BIM) was the high-tech tool of choice for this grand exercise in collaboration. The contract also established five metrics whose accomplishment released financial incentives for the project team. “Because we “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®
were incentivized, we had a very collaborative environment with all parties opting for what is best for the project,” said Vice President Don Davis, Barton Malow. Less redesign, less rancor and less rework in the field were the hallmarks of a project that released not only the coveted incentives, but also the creative problem-solving of the entire team. Rather than say, ‘This is the way we have always done it,’ we asked, ‘What is the best way to do it?’ ” said Andrew Miller, Barton Malow project manager, LEED AP. The same question steered Crittenton to take this groundbreaking approach that may well help to reduce general healthcare costs. “I really think that this can influence healthcare costs,” said Oberlee. “I don’t think this is just about Crittenton. I think this is about the bigger picture of healthcare. I think it’s about using our resources wisely. We should all be considering how things can be done differently and in a better way. This project is a good example.” Crittenton is blazing a trail and offering a template for Best Practices in the emerging IPD field. “I truly do believe that when it is all said and done people will be looking at us for Best Practices,” said Oberlee. “Some healthcare systems in the area have already come to us and said, ‘Wow, this seems to be going really well for you. How are you doing it? We need to learn about it.’ ” IPD LESSON NO. 1: ONE CONTRACT, ONE TEAM Oberlee convinced the hospital’s Board of Directors to take the IPD leap by driving home a basic point: low-bid doesn’t mean low cost. “The low-bid type of mentality can actually cost an owner a great deal of money,” said Oberlee who has been in facilities management for almost forty years. “I think IPD is the natural outgrowth of construction management kicked up a notch.” At Crittenton, this new approach began with a different type of contract. “In the old world, the owner has two contracts: one with the architect to develop a plan and another later with the constructor to
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the drawing board in the early stages of design. “Between those three subcontractors, we could lock in a great deal very early in the project,” said Hall. This approach resulted in significant savings by virtually eliminating redesign. “In the old world, it is common to have an architect develop a plan, hand it to a constructor who says, ‘Great plan, but way past the budget,’” said Oberlee. “The architect then has to redevelop the plan. In the new world, the IPD process places the constructor, as well as the mechanical and electrical contractor, right beside the architect as the plan is being developed. They resolve issues along the way rather than post-facto. As a result, redesign fees on the project were insignificant if not zero or close to it. I truly believe it is one of the significant savings of the project.” For the South Tower, the structural engineer and structural contractor established a strong working relationship. Harley’s structural engineers drew a typical steel bay and a typical concrete bay. Barton Malow prepared costs and compared scheduling on each option. “We vetted all the variables,” said Hall. “We knew what the costs would be, and we knew what the thickness and size of the columns would be at a very early point. We were on our way; we knew we were not going to redesign it.”
If two heads are better than one, four are even better. The mechanical and electrical contractors worked with the structural team to meet one of Crittenton’s core goals: match the new bed tower’s floor-to-floor heights with the existing East Tower. For patient safety and transport, no ramps were allowed. The glitch is that contemporary bed towers typically have higher floor-to-floor heights than existing older facilities. “We had to ‘skinny up’ the structure as much as possible,” said Hall. “You can get by with a thinner structure going to concrete. With steel, you would have a lot of steel beams you would have to work under.” Following the IPD philosophy, the mechanical and electrical contractors offered their perspective. “In comparing steel vs. concrete, we were going to lose an additional two inches of ceiling space,” said Miller. “The mechanical and electrical contractors discussed the drag on productivity if our ceiling space for their systems shrank to that point. The project benefitted from that depth of analysis. Typically, we wouldn’t make that type of decision that early in the process.” IPD LESSON NO. 3: COLLABORATE AND CO-LOCATE Structural collaboration continued into the detail phase, ultimately boosting productivity
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in the field. “Our concrete team developed a good synergy with Harley’s structural engineer,” said Miller. “There were several sessions where their structural engineer would sit right at the computer with our detailer, working out resteel details that not only could accomplish Harley’s structural goals, but also be the most productive type of details for the crew out in the field.” Together, engineer and contractor would sift through infinitesimal design details to improve the overall project, making full use of the perspective of both disciplines. As a resteel example, “a bar might have a couple of bends, and we would then convert the bend into two bars and splice them together,” said Miller. “The engineer would approve it structurally, and we would have a huge increase in productivity from this change. If we hadn’t been working in such close collaboration, these items would never have been vetted out.” On the MEP side, the mechanical and electrical contractors actually co-located in Harley Ellis Devereaux’s office, working closely with the design engineer. Old world: “It wasn’t like the typical process where Harley would draw the construction documents, and the mechanical/electrical contractors would redraw them basically in their CAD software,” said Miller. New world: “The mechanical and electrical contractors created the construction documents right in the fabrication software,” said Miller. Added Hall, “Basically, they could fabricate their ductwork for mechanical and electrical right from our software.” In this approach, the design, the details, the shop drawings and the fabrication move in one fluid, streamlined, cost-effective flow, reminiscent of lean construction, said Davis. Such close collaboration cut the number of RFIs in half. “Similar projects at a similar point in construction would have 400 RFIs to the architect,” said Oberlee. “We are at around 200, and the building is significantly built.” Slashing RFIs slashes cost. “The intensity or complexity of the RFI also has a large bearing on cost,” said Oberlee. Because of close collaboration, most of the requests were “RFI lite”, meaning the majority were only minor clarifications or even basic confirmations. Oberlee estimates “that the cost per RFI in this project is probably 30 percent of the norm.” IPD LESSON NO. 4: INCENTIVIZE THE TEAM The contracting vehicle is the fuel for this intense collaboration. At Crittenton, the IPD contract established a fee incentive in the contract. The fee incentive is not an add-on; the fee is set aside at the very beginning of the project and is calculated into the cost per square foot. Oberlee explains: “The owner sets a sum of money aside. On day one, we took it from the budget sheet to the committed side of the sheet. Those dollars are spent and form the fee Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com
incentive. If the project meets particular parameters, the dollars become available to enhance the agreed upon fees for both the architect and constructor. There is also language in the contract that says should we have a problem, those dollars will move to contingency and help fix the problem.” Under this arrangement, all the project players coalesce as a team, working together to meet the established metrics. “We are incentivized,” said Davis. “I think that is the
unique thing. In a lump sum situation, the contractor is getting the benefit; the owner is not. You are protecting your own turf. Because of this contract vehicle, we had a very collaborative environment where all parties were asking, ‘What is best for the project?’” The South Tower contract listed five metrics: safety, schedule, cost and budget, BIM and innovative design. Criteria were developed to measure performance for each parameter. “We spent more time on how to measure these
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A green or vegetated roof installed over a truck dock is one of the architect’s surprising touches.
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metrics than on the fact that they had to be measured,” said Hall. The owner and the project team management met at certain milestones and evaluated performance. “There is also a scoring system that dictates how much of the incentive gets distributed,” said Miller. As of January 2013, the project team was meeting every metric. “We are pretty much on track for a successful distribution of the money,” said Oberlee. At the South Tower, this game of risk and reward is producing the latter. In the risk column, the architect and constructor each place a portion of their fee at risk. “We are putting skin in the game, because we have put fee at risk,” said Rewold. “If we do a good job, we get more fee. If we don’t do what we say, we lose fee.” Hall offers his perspective on this “game” of risk and reward: “Architects are always at risk even in standard contracts. Under a standard of care clause, for example, someone might say, ‘You forgot these cabinets. We didn’t tell you about the cabinets, and you didn’t draw the cabinets, but now you are going to buy them.’ These types of disagreements happen. Essentially, architects have been at risk for years, and this is the first chance we have for some reward. This arrangement will keep us on our toes and it will incentivize us.” For their part, owners may be concerned about insufficient competition elevating the project price tag. “Competition still exists in every piece of this puzzle,” said Oberlee. “We believe the way to save money is to put competition, for instance, into which tile we are going to buy and other pieces of the project rather than the overall project number.” Miller added, “Some healthcare organizations maybe concerned about insufficient competition. But the proof is in the results. It didn’t cost us more.” In fact, the project costs
were significantly less than a traditional project. The project team met the owner’s core goal of delivering a quality project at a demanding target of $300 dollars per-square-foot. With much of the tower completed and the unknowns resolved, the project team has bested that difficult mark. The project stands at $298 dollars per-square-foot. Barton Malow benchmarked Crittenton’s South Tower against five comparable facilities constructed in the region. “Those five local projects were built in a range of $348 to $388 dollars per-square-foot,” said Miller. Oberlee adds, “In our case, that square foot cost includes site work and everything else that we’ve done on the project except for purchasing property, which we already owned.” This accomplishment is even more amazing, “because a concrete structure is typically more, and we are still managing to do it at that number,” said Oberlee. “Also, we are 100 percent union on this job. I have been open with the different trades about how successful we are with our costs. Some of them said, ‘What you are saying is that in a 100 percent union environment you are building a facility at this type of cost.’ I think that is significant because those folks frequently get blamed for higher project costs.” The trades on the jobsite have joined the collaborative culture. “The trades have a sense of pride in this job,” Oberlee continued. “In fact, I have even seen some situations on the site where one trade will look at another and say, ‘Stop wasting money,’ because they are very proud of the fact that we are at $298, and that first number isn’t a three. I would like to thank them for their role in the project’s success.” Quality was never compromised to pare down dollars. IPD’s streamlined flow enabled the team to achieve this cost per-square-foot goal. “The cost per-square-foot of this building is much less than peer facilities in the area,” said Davis. “We did not sacrifice quality, and we did not sacrifice fit and finish to achieve that mark.” This quality building was clearly designed for longevity and patient service. “Our value engineering truly focused on the value of the project, and how we best spent the dollars, not how we saved them,” said Oberlee. “In some cases, we added more insulation in places or used copper wire.” Hall added, “Life-cycle costs became more of a determinant than first costs, because you can pummel the first-cost down to the nubs, but then you leave the building to the owner and he now has an expensive building to maintain.” In this case, the team clearly opted for quality. IPD LESSON NO. 5: COLLABORATE IN CYBERSPACE Comparable to replacing a shovel with a hydraulic excavator, BIM is a powerful tool that “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®
feeds into and magnifies the IPD process. “I think BIM is the tool that has allowed IPD to advance to this stage,” said Oberlee. “We were willing as an owner to pay the upfront costs of BIM to gain significant savings later in the project.” BIM was used to lay-out every duct and conduit to avoid clashes. This was particularly useful in a project with stringent floor-to-floor height requirements. “We never got into a condition where we would have to lower the ceiling to fit in the ductwork,” said Hall. Beyond clash detection, BIM was used for the scheduling of concrete pours and the layout of the entire project. “Our concrete people had free access to all the information Harley Ellis Devereaux was putting together,” said Miller. “We shared the model, and we used it to plan our concrete pour sequences by adding our schedule to the model. Also, one of the huge advantages for the concrete team and for the entire project was that we were able – through the use of a couple of other tools in our main office – to translate the model directly into the lay-out engineers surveying gun. This meant we didn’t have hundreds of RFIs to clarify dimensions and locations.” As another example, “We used the mechanical and electrical information that we had in the model to set Unistrut in the concrete structure,” said Miller. “(The mechanical and electrical systems hang off the Unistrut.) We laid all of that out based on the model, and it saved literally hundreds of hours of work on site that would have been spent drilling postinstalled anchors in the structure after the concrete was poured and set.” Thanks to BIM, the digital jobsite has arrived. At the South Tower, the project foremen use the model on the jobsite on a daily basis. “Some foremen take a tablet out into the field to show the crew in 3D what they have to do,” said David Kampo, project manager, LEED Green Associate, Rewold and Son. Kampo has even been incorporating the model information into a digital owner’s maintenance manual. “An owner can pull up the model, click on an air handling unit and the model will tell when it should be serviced and what type of belt and filters it needs,” said Kampo. BLAZING A NEW PATH Crittenton’s new South Tower is a model project that uses IPD and BIM in wonderful synergistic ways. This synergy has produced another enviable result: less contingency. “A $56 million construction project typically has a 10 percent contingency, which would have been about $5.5 million worth of contingency in this project,” said Oberlee. “Because it was built in the computer model first, we became comfortable in moving the contingency to 2 million dollars.” Because of IPD’s early resolution of project issues, “the contingency for the project in actual dollars spent - and Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com
people should hold onto their seats - is probably around $600, 000,” said Oberlee. “We haven’t reached a million dollars in the contingency column yet, and the building is significantly up with all the unknowns resolved to a large degree.” Beyond successful financials, the project team worked in a positive interpersonal climate. “I will bet you that in the three years since we started this project there hasn’t been two minutes worth of heated discussion about
anything,” said Oberlee. “I want to say we almost have fun at these project meetings.” Oberlee added, “I also want to thank the entire project team for taking a shot at this together.” More than building a new building, Crittenton Hospital Medical Center, Harley Ellis Devereaux, Barton Malow Company and Frank Rewold and Son have blazed a path for others to follow. In taking this leap of faith, both the owner and the project team have clearly landed on their feet.
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spaces to bring more daylight into the center of the building.” Using evidence-based design, the tower will offer state-of-the-art patient care. Six nursing satellite stations will be strategically placed throughout each floor for easier patient access, and service room doors will open away from the patient corridor to keep noise from patient rooms. The creation of private rooms will dilutes the concentration of people for further noise reduction. As another innovative measure, “instead
BUILDING A SPACE FOR HEALING A joint venture of Barton Malow Company and Frank Rewold and Son, Inc. (Barton Malow Rewold LLC) is building the six-story tower that has the structural capacity for two additional floors. In fact, the elevator has already been constructed to reach eight stories and to service the existing East Tower, said Hall. The tower rests on 77 drilled piers, some placed to a depth of 50 feet, said Andrew Miller, Barton Malow project manager. Soil conditions were less than ideal, the site once having housed an old farm operation with a high load of organics. “Code changes bumped the building into a higher seismic category, meaning lateral load issues also steered the project toward deeper drilled piers,” Miller added.
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rittenton Hospital Medical Center’s new Cornerstone South Tower addition will result in the greatest physical changes to the hospital’s campus since its opening 45 years ago. The new sixstory tower will create 87 private rooms. “It will not add to our total bed count,” said Monte Oberlee, Administrator – Environment of Care, Crittenton Hospital Medical Center. “We will be moving people out of existing semi-private rooms in the East Tower, in essence creating not only new private rooms, but private rooms as well in this existing tower.” A steel-framed, glass-enclosed bridge will connect the new tower to a nearby parking structure; a six-story, glass curtain-wall clad connector will link the new South Tower to the existing East Tower. Harley Ellis Devereaux designed the exterior to complement the brick and stone palette of the existing medical campus. A green roof installed over a truck dock is one of the architect’s surprising touches. “The green roof hides the truck dock, making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, so to speak,” said C. Richard Hall, FAIA, Harley Ellis Devereaux, Principal, Healthcare. “The green roof will be visible from inside the hospital and usable during good weather.” The interior will offer another breath of fresh air. “I think people will be pleasantly surprised by the openness and the color and the brightness of the new tower interior,” said Hall. With generous expanses of glass, the elevator lobby will be filled with natural light. A whole bank of south-facing windows will draw daylight into the secondfloor lobby registration areas for ambulatory surgery and outpatient services. “The central core of each patient floor will also have a diagonal corridor cutting through it for nursing areas and central meeting rooms,” said Hall. “There will be some open areas and glass walls in the conference
of a traditional open nurse station we have an enclosed collaborative care center,” said Oberlee. “The function of planning a patient’s care will proceed in a quieter way without the noise and conversations bothering patients. We will have every discipline involved, including nutrition services, pharmacists, nurses and doctors.”
The exterior of Crittenton’s new Cornerstone South Tower addition complements the brick and stone palette of the existing medical campus. “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®
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Approximately 396 brick-face precast panels form the exterior walls of this cast-inplace concrete structure. Kerkstra Precast, the Grandville firm that held the prime contract for the exterior cladding, enlisted the services of Gate Precast in Kentucky to manufacture the architectural panels. “The precast walls were fabricated with the brick and insulation on them, and they were hung up in sections,” said Hall. Miller added, “The banding is also precast concrete that was cast in the panel along with the other materials.” Completing the building envelope, the new tower has an EPDM fullyadhered, un-ballasted rubber roofing system. Logistically, Barton Malow Rewold LLC managed a tight site with a host of constraints, said Chief Executive Officer Frank Rewold, Rewold and Son. With the site adjacent to a residential neighborhood, the project team had to manage noise and crane placement, plus follow a variety of city ordinances.
The new South Tower is scheduled for completion in October 2013. “At the end of the day, I believe the owner can say, ‘I have a great building,’” said Rewold. “The building is inexpensively built from a cost standpoint, but from a quality standpoint it’s A-1. Crittenton now has a concrete frame building with brick veneer and a green roof for a little under $300 dollars a square foot.” The project combines the big three: innovations in patient care as evidenced by the collaborative care center; innovations in project delivery as the first sizeable healthcare project to use Integrated Project Delivery (see main article); and innovations in Building Information Modeling (see main article). Beyond being innovative, the new South Tower will be an inviting space with art alcoves and lobby areas filled with natural light. Thanks to Crittenton, Harley Ellis Devereaux, Barton Malow and Rewold and Son, these wonderful healing spaces will soon be available to the community.
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ong before construction is complete and doctors and staff set foot in the Detroit Medical Center Heart Hospital, the Skanska team will have walked every square foot of the building through a computer-generated 3-D model, examining every aspect of the construction process to identify any issues that may arise during construction and operation. A Building Information Model (BIM) is generated individually by the mechanical, electrical and plumbing trades. Combined with the architectural and structural design models, these models will then be reviewed compositely with everyone on the team, working toward a common goal to create a coordinated model to ensure building components fit together and will perform as designed before ground is broken for any building. This process makes a project more efficient, safer and often less expensive. It also allows us to collaborate with the design team to address fixes that couldn’t be foreseen previously. In the construction industry, BIM helps us improve the quality of our structures, while minimizing the budget and duration of the construction process for our clients and, at times, the taxpaying public. The BIM process also allows the trades to get a jump-start on fabricating the plumbing or HVAC elements directly from the model, which often speeds the building and installation process. It helps to increase efficiency in the field and to avoid clashes or particular situations because of the up-front coordination. BIM is catching on quickly industry-wide. Skanska is now using BIM for more than 100 active projects, including the $59 million Heart Hospital we are constructing for Detroit Medical Center with joint venture partner Jenkins Construction. Let me share with you a little more about how BIM works and how it benefits our projects.
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the owner, contractor and subcontractors in the construction process to easily visualize the project site and probable situations they will face once construction starts. BIM allows our teams to better plan a project before construction begins. By knowing their surroundings and potential hazards, construction managers can better plan based on the elements they know to be on-site, which means the project can be completed faster and less expensively. Better planning means better use of the client’s dollar or taxpayer funding, which means fewer cost overruns and, in fact, an increased likelihood that money can go back into other important services or facility needs. AVOIDING HAZARDS A clear image of the building in the earliest stages of the project gives construction teams the ability to analyze potential issues and create strategies for the construction process, thus avoiding many of the hazardous conditions that would have presented themselves down the line. Our industry is also starting to catch on to the theory that teams using BIM to better understand the details and layout of the site during the planning stages of a project, also see an increase in onsite worker safety. As I mentioned before, we always want to keep in mind the best interests of our clients and the people who will use these facilities in the future. However, just as important is our commitment to the well-being of the people who work on the construction sites each day. As teams are going through pre-construction, or even as new team members join the process already in motion, we can use BIM to introduce new construction teams (or new workers) to the project, significantly decreasing the learning curve and the number of on-site accidents. The bottom line: workers who know their surroundings are less likely to be injured. “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®
INVESTIGATING INCIDENTS Although the use of BIM seems to decrease the number of accidents and creates an environment that allows for a more streamlined process, incidents may still occur. The BIM technology can be used after an incident takes place to more thoroughly review the root causes. The model is just one more tool available to help the team determine what happened and how to decrease the likelihood of a similar situation’s occurring in the future (whether on that project or on others). As we continue using BIM in our projects around the country, we anticipate increased worker safety and efficiency – minimizing headaches for ourselves, saving time and costs for our clients, and creating outstanding structures in their communities.
Steve Smit is a virtual design and construction coordinator based in Skanska’s Kalamazoo, MI office. His contributions include the early review of Building Information Steve Smit Models (BIMs) during preconstruction, managing 3-D coordination processes, assisting in constructability reviews and creating BIM turnover packages for clients. He works closely with the construction team upon project award to develop project-specific BIM implementation plans. Smit’s project experience includes the renovation and expansion of the Morris Inn at the University of Notre Dame, the Stayer Center for Executive Education at Notre Dame, and the Gun Lake Gaming and Entertainment Facility in Bradley, MI.
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MiniMally invasive ConstruCtion Turner Completes Successful “Operation” at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital
By Mary E. Kremposky, Associate Editor orking only a heartbeat away from surgical suites in active use, Turner Construction Company, Detroit, undertook a difficult operation of its own: inserting a vertical expansion in the middle of Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital’s almost one-million-square foot campus. A split screen view of the existing OR and the new expansion would show two active theaters of operation in close proximity: a surgeon threading a catheter from groin to heart as part of a cardiac catheterization in the existing OR, and a construction team routing ductwork in the ceiling plenum of the new expansion. With minimal disruption to hospital services, Turner even stitched together the existing and the new surgical suites housed in this intricate
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expansion designed by Albert Kahn Associates, Inc., Detroit. As the first phase, the project team gave the single-story building below the expansion the medical equivalent of a hip replacement. Thanks to the design and construction team’s surgical insertion of concrete footings and structural steel braces, the building below the expansion can bear the weight of the three new surgical suites, shell space for a fourth and eight prep/recovery rooms now located directly adjacent to the existing surgical suites. Daily life in this bustling medical campus didn’t skip a beat, thanks to Turner’s savvy construction management and Albert Kahn’s calculated placement of the first-story building’s new concrete and steel “bones”. Vital
patient services continued with the least possible interruption as Turner worked beneath the floors and behind the walls of first-floor clinical spaces. The espresso never stopped brewing at Caribou Coffee and the doors of the Live Well Shoppe remained wide open in the hospital’s retail zone known as Main Street. Clearly, Turner is a skilled practitioner of what could be called minimally invasive construction. Like its medical counterpart of minimally invasive surgery, construction procedures were carefully plotted to ease disruption to the life of the “patient” – in this case a major hospital. Turner’s strategy included hand digging to reinforce eleven foundations, restricting use of a crane for steel
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“THE SURGICAL TEAM” More than 23,000 surgeries have been performed in the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital’s 10 state-of-the-art operating rooms originally constructed as part of the facility’s major expansion in 2009, according to a Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) press release. Only three years later, increased patient demand for surgical services prompted the hospital to embark on a surgical suite expansion. For operational efficiency, HFHS elected to cluster the existing and new surgical suites together on the second floor. “Operational efficiency is a key component to any design, because the operational costs of a facility will outweigh the capital costs in no time,” said Mazzara. For patient safety, placing the new suites adjacent to the existing makes full use of existing surgical supply and support spaces and offers circulation pathways quickly accessed throughout surgery. “From a patient safety standpoint, you are far better off collecting the ORs together in one contiguous loop,” said Mazzara. “Less moving of patients also reduces the possibility of patient falls, so there are definite benefits from these adjacencies.” The chosen location was ideal for patients and the hospital, but challenging for the project team. For starters, the building below, originally constructed in the 1970s, was not built to handle the load of a vertical expansion. Accessing a site located in the middle of a large medical campus added further complexity to the project. And complicating every phase was the need to reduce disruption to the hospital. HFHS needed a project team experienced in delivering complex vertical expansions and capable of working together as a true team in a project with a host of unknowns. Enter Turner and Albert Kahn. Both in business for over 100 years, the two firms have been working together steadily since the 1920s, and both took the lead in the recent major expansion of Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital. In fact, almost the same team of individuals reconvened to build this involved vertical expansion, including Charles A. Hornacek, the Turner senior project manager who has
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building hospitals across Metro Detroit for almost 30 years. Both firms have long working histories with the Henry Ford Health System. “We’ve had a long working relationship with Turner that has been very successful for us, primarily because of Charlie,” said Mazzara. “From the perspective of managing a project, they are a superior firm to work with. Albert Kahn has consistently worked with HFHS. They were even involved in the very first hospital for Henry Ford. There is quite a long history between all three companies.” For the vertical expansion, HFHS tapped Albert Kahn’s deep knowledge of the West Bloomfield facility’s technical design, including mechanical, electrical and structural systems. As in all HFHS projects, Turner was on board from the very beginning of the vertical expansion’s design, providing constructability reviews and conducting field surveys to help form a preconstruction estimate.
LOW-IMPACT CONSTRUCTION Placing new footings in the existing singlestory building was the first order of business in this difficult operation. Design-wise, Kahn had to carefully plot the location and shape of the new footings in an area housing the hospital’s MRI, nuclear medicine department, blood bank, central communications hub, and clinical spaces. “Kahn designed the new footings around the existing as much as possible to reduce the impact on critical spaces,” said Hornacek. The objective was to avoid disturbing existing underground utilities while cutting open the floor and excavating. “In the case of the MRI, we had to make sure that we reinforced the footings without cutting into
the special shielding that contains the MRI room,” said Gregory Gertsen, PE, Albert Kahn structural engineer. Kahn designed different shapes for different footings to avoid these obstacles and maintain vital hospital services. Some footings were square and others were rectangular, but all were strategically configured to match the space and minimize the impact to the hospital. Construction-wise, Turner had to devise means and methods for performing and staging the work with the least amount of disruption. Because reducing vibration to sensitive medical equipment was vital, all of the work was done by hand, beginning with cutting the concrete floor. “Instead of jack hammering or something similar, we saw-cut the concrete to minimize vibration,” said Hornacek. The trades even excavated underneath the original foundations by hand. The openings varied in depth from three to 10 feet and in width from 12 to 15 feet. Both the old concrete pieces and the soil were removed from the building with a tried and trusty implement: the wheelbarrow. All the ingredients for concrete placement were also hauled in by wheelbarrow. “There was no way to pump concrete into the openings without impacting the hospital, so this part of the project was done by hand also,” said Mike Dawson, Turner project engineer. Turner determined the best sequence of work for each footing, sometimes excavating a half and sometimes a quarter of a footing at a time to minimize disruption to sensitive clinical areas and to preserve soil integrity. “We looked at what type of clinical spaces was down below and evaluated their operations,” said Hornacek. “Instead of just taking out the whole area, we
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erection and the lifting of two sizeable air handlers to select weekends, and extensive dust control via negative air pressure and continual monitoring of infection control practices. “Surgeries were still going on in a completely safe manner,” said William E. Mazzara, AIA, Director, Facility Design & Construction, Henry Ford Health System. “If we had to stop operations, we would not be doing this work. That is where the talent of knowing how to work in an existing facility pays off. Only certain contractors have the experience to do it.”
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cut as many as possible, and then have a crew working behind excavating by hand and then another crew forming and placing the concrete in a smooth sequence,” said Hornacek. Each footing took approximately one week and sometimes two weeks for installation. This strategy was a success with the hospital operational and the personnel as oblivious as a patient under anesthesia to all the saw-cutting, hand digging and concrete work underway almost beneath their feet. Turner also constructed temporary walls and partitions around each footing worksite as part of its lowimpact approach, added Dawson.
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This air handling unit was disassembled and lifted in pieces via crane over the course of a weekend.
Reassessing the work above the ceiling allowed the hospital’s Live Well Shoppe to remain open during the vertical expansion. The project team re-analyzed the structure and reconfigured the design, eliminating the need to install structural beams in that area. Reconfiguring the ductwork in the area also kept the Shoppe open for business.
did the work in small, manageable blocks, because taking out the whole area would have had a high impact on the hospital. For instance, we just opened a certain amount of floor at one time and dug around the existing footings to avoid an MRI shutdown.” In another instance, Turner excavated a series of strategic, small openings around the central communications hub to avoid disrupting the hospital’s medical records, nurse
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call and other systems. “We cut little holes here and there to undermine the area from below, and then pinned it to the existing footing and poured the concrete in sequence,” said Hornacek. Overall, Turner reinforced 11 footings, installing two or three footings at a time to lower the impact to the hospital but maximize efficiencies with the trades. “Once you begin a process such as saw-cutting, you want to saw-
The second phase of this almost surgical project was the insertion of structural steel bracing for the vertical expansion and in select areas of the first-floor. “We had to put in the bracing to resist the lateral loads on both floors,” said Gertsen. Kahn pinpointed optimal areas for insertion of the first-floor braces, and with the finesse of an orthopedic surgeon, the Turner team installed the steel between several bays of the existing precast structure. Again, the objective was to minimize disruption to the hospital. Turner installed a brace bay and footings directly behind a storage area in Caribou Coffee without shutting down this coffee lover’s paradise. In the Live Well Shoppe, the project team “reanalyzed the structure and reconfigured the design, eliminating the need to install structural beams in that area,” said Hornacek. “We also reconfigured some of the ductwork to that area. The end result is we did the least possible amount of work above the ceiling, allowing us to keep the store open.” The same approach was taken throughout this 10,000-square-foot area of the first floor. After fireproofing the steel bracing and rebuilding the walls, the new structural elements are now ensconced within the existing building. “The steel structure is now inside the walls, and no one would know the difference,” said Dawson.
THE BIG HOIST Turner began construction in February 2012 and completed first floor foundations, structural steel bracing and build-back by midJuly. As a scheduling aid, Turner actually reinforced footings while simultaneously installing the bracing on both floors, as well as the stub columns for the vertical expansion. The stage was set for the installation of the main structural steel frame for the 9,600square-foot vertical expansion. “Marrying steel to an existing precast building lightens the load on the single-story structure,” said Gertsen. For the steel components, the project shifted from hand work to the use of a Groves 550-ton mobile crane, one of the largest mobile cranes “Voice Of The Construction Industry”®
in Michigan. Swinging steel skyward, the massive crane had to reach over approximately 420 feet to place the steel in the middle of the medical campus. Turner worked at night and on the weekends to keep true to its mission of minimal disruption. “We developed a staging area for the crane, and then worked around the clock lifting steel into place throughout the weekend,” said Hornacek. “We shut down areas below the swing of the crane, but come Monday morning, those areas were back in operation.” Turner followed the same weekend drill to hoist two large air handlers into place. The units were disassembled and lifted in pieces with one unit broken down into seven sections and the other into six, said Dawson.
ABOVE-THE-BOX THINKING HFHS added another caveat to an already demanding project: match the floor elevations of the new and existing operating suites for operational efficiency and patient safety. Turner and Kahn stitched together the two floor levels – a feat not as easily accomplished as it may sound. The floor beams of the new vertical expansion would have to penetrate the existing roof system to accomplish this parity. Once again, Turner and Kahn devised an outof-the-box solution to this puzzle of a floor.
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Design-wise, the need to match floor elevations meant only limited space was available for the new floor beams. “We couldn’t take the roof off, so we had to make sure the steel would fit between the existing roof and our new floor, which was a very tight space,” said Gertsen. “We had to take the girders and push them up two inches into the concrete slab. We actually had the girders up two inches higher than the floor beams. Because of this, we used two different stud types as well.” Construction-wise, Turner actually installed the vertical expansion’s structural steel frame, roof and building envelope without the floor beams in permanent position. “Not installing the floor beams is very unusual,” said Hornacek. “We temporarily raised or elevated the beams, and did not lower them until the envelope was on and the building was watertight.” Following this unique protocol, the sensitive equipment and clinical spaces were never shut down and never exposed to the weather.
BUILDING SYSTEMS By December 2012, the interior walls and systems infrastructure of this new surgical suite was well underway. Almost six feet of medical gases, cryogenic vents, sprinklers and HVAC systems snake through the ceiling plenum.
BIM was used to design and install this network of MEP and medical systems. In one of the last phases, Turner is reconfiguring adjacent spaces in the existing surgical suites. “We are reconfiguring the reception waiting room and locker rooms,” said Hornacek. “We are actually integrating the existing surgery department by opening a wall and tying together the corridor.” Turner built an air lock and maintains a negative air pressure system to keep construction dust out of the existing surgical suites. “The system draws air in and filters the dust out, preventing any dust from sifting through doors and seals and entering the surgical areas,” said Hornacek. “We also sweep the site daily.” Turner is meticulous and conscientious in keeping the new vertical expansion clean and orderly even during active construction. “Charlie and Turner did an amazing job with cleanliness,” said Gertsen. Turner runs a tight ship on every healthcare project, including its current work managing the new emergency department expansion at DMC’s Sinai Grace Hospital in Northwest Detroit. Hornacek is the senior project manager at this current ER expansion, and has also worked on the north addition for Children’s Hospital, Sinai Grace’s radiation oncology facility and inpatient tower build-out, and a
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CONSTRUCTION HIGHILGHT DMC ambulatory care vertical expansion. At Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, each of the existing and new surgical suites is a large, state-of-the-art, 725-square-foot space. “In terms of square footage, they are a great deal larger than what was being built even 10 years ago,” said Mazzara. “A great deal of flexibility is built into the platform. With radiology functions starting to become
integrated with operating room functions, the suites are capable of swinging between a traditional operating room and an interventional operating room.” As more surgeries are being guided by radiographic equipment, the interventional OR prevents any interruption of surgeries for assessment, for the assessment can be performed immediately with radiology equipment in the OR.
For Turner and Kahn, the assessment is in: both firms have clearly performed a successful operation at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital. Delivering a challenging vertical expansion with the least amount of stress to the hospital, the two firms have clearly mastered the art of minimally invasive design and construction. Thanks to this savvy and experienced project team, Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital can expand its ability to save lives and heal patients. The following trade contractors contributed their talents to the Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital Vertical Expansion: • Concrete – E.L.S Construction, Inc., Orion Township • Carpentry – Turner-Brooks, Inc., Madison Heights • Steel – Casadei Steel, Inc., Sterling Heights • Electrical – Motor City Electric, Detroit • Electrical – Williams Electrical, Detroit • Fire Protection – Lawrence-Green Fire Protection, Inc., Detroit • Spray-on Fireproofing – William E. Harnish Acoustical, Inc., Redford • HVAC and Air Handler – Limbach Company, LLC, Pontiac • HVAC, Steam Condensate Piping – MSL, LLC, Detroit • Painting – Madias Brothers Painting Contractors, Inc., Detroit • Plumbing and Med Gas – De-Cal, Inc., Warren • Plumbing and Med Gas – Wolverine Mechanical, Detroit • Roofing – CEI Group, LLC, Howell • Tile – Eldorado Tile & Marble Co., Sterling Heights • Pneumatic Tube – Swisslog Healthcare Solutions, Denver, CO • Rubbish Removal – Grove Recycling, Detroit • Fencing – Industrial Fence & Landscaping, Inc., Detroit The owner, architect or contractor identifies the trade contractors in the Construction Highlight
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In addition, Gateway Safety has added a new Clear In/Out Mirror lens option in StarLite MAG. The clear in/out mirror lenses can help reduce the effects of intense bright light and glare as workers transition from indoor to outdoor tasks. It’s one of Gateway Safety’s most popular lens options. The new Clear In/Out Mirror lens is available in 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 diopter levels. Bifocal safety eyewear allows workers to clearly read instrumentation, work with small parts, or perform other close tasks. Workers in potentially hazardous environments in which eye protection is required cannot switch between regular safety glasses and reading glasses without creating a moment—or more—of noncompliance that can result in errors and eye injuries. Employers can look to StarLite MAG for its great styling, comfort, and all-around impact protection. In addition to the new clear in/out mirror lens, StarLite MAG is available in clear, clear anti-fog and gray lens options. For more than 65 years, Gateway Safety has been designing and manufacturing award-winning, cost-effective safety products in eye, face, head, hearing and respiratory protection. Contact Gateway Safety, Inc., 11111 Memphis Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44144. Phone: 800-822-5347; or Fax: 216-889-1200; www.GatewaySafety.com/PR or E-mail: marketing@gatewaysafety.com.
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G & S Acoustics Introduces Dimensional Acoustic Panels Custom Sculpted Panels add Beauty, Dimension and Quiet to Spaces As designers know, adding dimension to flat surfaces adds interest and beauty to a room. Now, it is possible to specify sculpted, fabric covered wall panels that also provide superior acoustic control with the introduction of Dimensional Acoustic Panels (DAP) from G&S Acoustics. DAP offers the ability to design sound absorbing acoustical panels with sculpted surfaces to create dynamic and unique spaces. The panels are ideal for churches, schools, offices, lobbies, theaters and even high-end residential applications. “DAP panels are an economical way to add both functionality and a design element to a space,” says Herb Golterman, president of G & S Acoustics. “Acoustic control is a necessity, but by adding dimension and Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com
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Metabo’s New High-Torque Die Grinder Features Spindle Lock Feature Makes Accessory Changes Quick and Easy Metabo Corporation, a leading international manufacturer of professional grade portable electric power tools and abrasives for industrial, construction and welding applications, now offers the GE950 G Plus high torque die grinder with spindle lock and wide speed range. The GE950 G Plus features a unique spindle lock. This feature makes accessory changes quick and easy using a single wrench. With its wide speed range spanning from 2,500 rpm – 8,700 rpm, the new die grinder is used for polishing and graining, sanding, deburring, edge finishing, beveling and cutting metal. The GE950 G Plus features a robust 8.5 A LongLife motor, 950 watts of power, a rated load of 7,200 rpm and 27 inch-lbs of torque. This new die grinder is equipped with a hardened and ground 1/4” collet to ensure accurate balance and minimized run out of the accessory. The tool incorporates several advanced motor protection features including thermal overload protection, electronic speed stabilization and an electronic soft start to significantly extend tool life. The GE950 G Plus also features a planetary gear drive that efficiently transfers power from the motor to the spindle and an electronic safety cutoff that protects the tool operator should the tool bind or snag. Other safety features include a side handle that offers the user more control during sanding and finishing applications as well as a soft rubber grip that helps minimize vibration and insulates the hand from heat. Designed for high performance, the GE950 G Plus features a diecast aluminum gear housing, auto-stop carbon brushes, Metabo’s winding protection grid and Vario-Constamatic full-wave
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Maradyne High Performance Fans Offers the Heat 5000 Series for Heavy-Duty Commercial Applications Maradyne High Performance Fans® offers The Heat 5000 Series universal heaters, designed with durability and high performance in mind. Ideal for any heavy-duty vehicle not equipped with heating or defrost capabilities, The Heat 5000 Series features a compact design and out-of-sight mounting inside the cab. Maradyne's The Heat 5000 Series is made with a strong .22 gauge black-finish steel casing, a long-life motor and a durable tube/fin core design. Available in two voltage outputs, the 24VDC model is a solid fit for such heavy-duty applications as farm machinery, construction equipment, marine and military vehicles, buses, RVs and other specialty applications. Maradyne designs only the highest-quality components into its fan assemblies, ensuring all motors are designed for long life no matter how demanding the environment. That level of workmanship is showcased in The Heat 5000 Series design, which offers three speeds supported by a large coil for maximum air flow and measures only 7 3/8" wide by 7 7/16" deep by 7 1/16 " high. The Heat 5000 Series heaters come complete with mounting studs and rear hose connections as well as mounting brackets for the fan control switch. Optional accessories include a Defrost Kit (part #MFA126) and a Louver Kit (part #MFA127). All Maradyne products are backed by a one-year limited warranty. To learn more about Maradyne's heater options, visit www.maradyneHP.com. For more information and dimensional drawings, contact Maradyne High Performance Fans at 800-4037953; Fax: 216-362-6342; write to 4540 W. 160th St. Cleveland, OH 44135; or visit www.maradyneHP.com.
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Lincoln Electric’s Activ8™ Semiautomatic Wire Feeder Now Available in One-Pak® Option Wire Feeder Offered Conveniently Packaged with Compatible Gun Ideal for shipbuilding, offshore, construction or pipe welding operations, the Activ8™ portable wire feeder from Lincoln Electric is the smallest, lightest wire feeder on the market and is now available in a OnePak® configuration that includes a Magnum® PRO Curve™ 300 gun. With the One-Pak®, welders can enjoy the convenience of receiving a wire feeder and gun matched for most applications in the shipbuilding, construction or pipeline industries.
At the heart of the Activ8™ wire feeder is the MAXTRAC® Drive System, which features the following: - Dual gear-driven drive system to ensure positive feeding performance. - Patented wire drive with tool-less drive roller and wire guide changes for quick spool replacement.
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The Activ8™ One-Pak® includes the following: - Activ8™ Wire Feeder with internal contactor, gas solenoid, arc-sensing lead and clip [15 ft (4.5 m)] and a K1500-2 Gun Bushing. - Magnum® PRO Curve™ 300 Gun with 15 ft (4.5 m) gun cable, 1/16 inch (1.6 mm) liner, and K466-10 Gun Connector Kit. Key features of the Activ8™ include: - Designed specifically for 8 in. (200 mm) spools. - Compatible with any DC CV and/or CC power source. - Simple controls include front WFS knob and internal-booted Cold Feed and/Gas Purges, Trigger Interlock and CV/CC switches. - Across-the-arc operation (voltage sensing) uses a sense lead and contactor to enable weld current. - Standard shielding gas apparatus can be used for FCAW-G and GMAW processes. - Tough plastic case, molded from highimpact, flame-retardant material, is durable and lightweight enough to withstand repeated drop testing. The portable wire feeder is capable of feeding self-shielded FCAW or FCAW-G and GMAW (MIG) gas-shielded wires at 50-800 IPM (1.3 – 20.3 m/min). It will handle GMAW wires .023 - .052 in. (0.6 – 1.3 mm) in diameter and FCAW wires of .035 – 5/64 in. (0.9 – 2.0 mm) in diameter. The Activ8™ is rated at 330 amps at 60 percent duty cycle and weighs in at only 27 lbs. (12.2 kg).
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PEOPLE IN CONSTRUCTION Clark Construction Marketing Manager Sue Kohler announced her retirement from the company, effective December 21, 2012, after 17 years of service at Clark and 40 years in the construction industry. Kohler joined the marketing department at Lansing-based Clark Construction in 1995. In her position as marketing manager, she has Kohler been responsible for all proposals and presentations in pursuit of new projects, the corporate website, public relations, special events, photography and promotional items. In 2011, Kohler was named recipient of the John M. Clark Service award which is presented annually to the Clark employee who demonstrates an exceptional work ethic, service and dedication on behalf of the company and its customers. Michigan Chapter No. 5, a chapter of the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM®), has announced its Industry Partner of the Year 2012. Congratulations to Newton Crane Roofing of Pontiac. The award was presented to Jill Cheff at the annual Inaugural Ball held at the Detroit Institute of Arts on Friday, December 7, 2012.
Construction industry veteran Kirk Frownfelter has joined Walbridge and will serve as general manager of the company’s new west Michigan office. Frownfelter is a veteran of west Michigan, having spent 15 years there developing business in the Kalamazoo area. The company’s office in Kalamazoo, which opened in January 2013, will be Frownfelter responsible for pursuing new business opportunities throughout the western half of the state. Signature Contracting Group, LLC, Redford, has named Gill Foster II managing director as he has acquired all shares from Damon V. Tooles. With this move, Foster becomes the majority owner along with principals and partners, James A. Winter and John A. Szarama. Foster II
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Wigen Tincknell Meyer & Associates of Saginaw has announced that Kurt R. Fogelsonger, AIA, LEED AP BD+C is the new president and CEO of the firm. Joining the firm in 1987, Fogelsonger is a registered architect in Michigan and Wisconsin. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Michigan Fogelsonger Society of Healthcare Engineers and the U.S. Green Building Council. He will lead the 18-person firm as it continues to design facilities throughout the state of Michigan. Douglas W. Kueffner, AIA, a fourth-generation owner of the company, has become Chairman of the Board. Kueffner’s expertise has been specialized in the planning and development of buildings that serve the firm’s commercial, educational and hospitality clients. He will continue his responsibilities in business development and client contact for the firm. SHW Group, one of the nation’s leading educational architecture and engineering firms, has announced the promotion of four individuals at its Berkley office. Patrick Calhoun, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C, has been promoted to principal from associate principal. He is an architect, planner and programmer, and has been with SHW Group for 13 years. Kevin Rettich, PE, LEED AP, has been promoted to principal from associate principal. He serves as the firm-wide director of engineering and has been with SHW Group for two years. Casimir “Caz” Zalewski, PE, LEED AP, has been promoted to associate principal. Zalewski is mechanical group leader and has been with SHW Group for two years. Jeffrey Walenciak has been promoted to associate. Walenciak is a senior electrical engineer and has been with SHW Group for six years. Jay H. Smith, LEED AP, the executive responsible for construction operations for The Christman Company, Lansing, was recently promoted to the position of executive vice president. In this role, he will provide increasingly advanced leadership and responsibility for the construction operations necessary to ensure Smith safety, quality, schedule, and cost control for the firm’s many construction projects. He will also continue to serve as principal in charge of individual projects for a select number of the company’s longest-term clients. Smith has a total of 36 years of experience in construction, and joined Christman in 1984. HKS, Inc., a topfive architectural firm, recently announced the following Detroitbased promotions: Gordon Peck, AIA, Peck Miller was promoted to associate principal/senior vice president; Robert Miller, AIA, PQP, LEED AP BD+C, was promoted to vice president; Camilla Moretti, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, was promoted to associate; and David Schmitzerle, LEED AP, was promoted to associate. HKS, Inc. was founded in 1939 and operates from 30 offices worldwide. Visit us online at www.cammagazineonline.com
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CORPORATE NEWS Woodward, Inc., an independent designer, manufacturer and service provider of control solutions for the aerospace and energy markets, has selected Dearborn-based Ghafari Associates, a leading architecture / engineering firm, to design a new manufacturing / office campus as part of an expansion initiative. The campus development, located in Rockford, IL, marks the first collaboration between Woodward and Ghafari. Ghafari is serving as the architect and engineer of record for the new $200 million campus, which will include a production facility and office complex and total approximately 300,000 square feet. Upon completion, it will serve as the headquarters for Woodward’s Aircraft Turbine Systems (ATS) business group. Woodward opted to phase the design of this campus for future expansion. Ghafari has engaged two local consultants, civil engineer ARC Design and landscape architect Thomas Graceffa Associates, Inc., to assist with the project. Mid-America Real Estate Corporation’s Investment Sales Group recently brokered the sale of the 409,909-square-foot power center West Valley/East Valley Shopping Center located in Saginaw. An affiliate of Phoenix-based Cole Real Estate Investments purchased the center from Pompano Beach, FL-based Sobel Co. for an undisclosed amount. West Valley/East Valley Shopping Center is anchored by Dick’s Sporting Goods, T.J. Maxx, Michaels, PetSmart, Barnes & Noble, Babies ‘R’ Us, DSW, Old Navy, Pep Boys, Burlington Coat Factory, Ulta and Dollar Tree. Ben Wineman of Mid-America Real Estate Corp. and Daniel Stern of Mid-America Real EstateMichigan Inc. were the exclusive brokers in the transaction on behalf of the seller. The buyer was self-represented.
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Lansing-based Clark Construction Company officials proudly joined in the celebration marking the grand opening of the renovated Michigan State University Union. The grand opening was held in January 2013. Clark Construction served as construction manager on the MSU Union project. The MSU Union renovation included upgrades to the first floor concourse, main lounge and reconfiguration and renovation of retail outlets including the coffee shop and Sparty’s Convenience Store. An information desk was created at the intersection of the pedestrian flow, and a new connection to the lower lounge from the upper lobby was constructed. The lounge and lobby received new finishes, including flooring, carpet, paint and furnishings. The One Union Square Food Court was updated and modified to increase food preparation and patron efficiency. Plumbing Professors, Canton, has announced the addition of septic system services to its Canadian service center in Windsor Ontario (YQG). Plumbing Professors is now licensed in Canada to perform septic system inspections, maintenance as well as new septic system design and installations. With this license, Plumbing Professors now adds a full range of septic services to its plumbing, sewer and drain service portfolio in Windsor, Ontario and Essex County, Canada. For more information, visit www.PlumbingProfessors.ca or Contact Dan McGee, Operations Manager Plumbing Professors Canada, at 519-890-1025. Clark Construction Company has been nominated as a finalist for Associated General Contractors of America’s 14th Annual Construction Safety Excellence Award. The nomination underscores Clark Construction’s long withstanding reputation as a national leader in workplace safety. The award will be presented in Palm Springs, CA. Nominees are chosen not only on excellent safety performance, but also effective safety programs from contractors who are committed, comprehensive and unique in their methods of achieving a safe workplace. In 2013, Clark Construction reached a significant safety milestone of having gone over three million worker hours without lost time due to injury. The historic safety accomplishment has covered all Clark Construction projects since 2001. Clark Construction management and staff refuse to accept accidents as an unavoidable aspect of construction and set a safety goal for the company of zero hours of lost time due to injuries. Clark’s safety performance program has earned the company widespread government and industry recognition for its safety accomplishments, receiving several major awards in recent years including: CET Platinum Award from MIOSHA for outstanding accomplishments in safety; CET Gold Award from MIOSHA for outstanding accomplishments in safety; Safety Excellence Award from the Michigan Chapter of Associated General Contractors (AGC); and Outstanding Safety Performance Award from the Accident Fund Insurance Company of America.
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Please submit all calendar items no less than six weeks prior to the event to: Amanda Tackett, Editor: tackett@cam-online.com March 8, 2013 – CAM European Pheasant Hunt Dunn Creek Outfitters, 10446 S. Shaftsburg Rd., Laingsburg, MI 48848 Participants must register ahead of time. The day-long event includes the hunt, birds and dogs, 12 and 20 gauge shotgun shells, and a catered lunch. Bring your own shotgun and hunting license. Birds will be processed for your freezer. $275.00 per person. Contact Gregg Montowski at CAM 248-972-1000.
April 23-24, 2013 – Missouri Concrete Conference Missouri University of Science and Technology, Havener Center, Rolla, MO 65409 Conference presentations will include Type I-L cement, unusual concrete mixtures, recycled concrete aggregate for structures and pavements, alkali-silica reaction (ASR) mitigation and testing, petrography, laserinduced breakdown spectroscopy, problems and solutions with box beams, joints and girders, full depth reclamation, airfield aggregate-related failures, modular slab joint repair systems, building slab moisture remedies, roller compacted concrete residential projects, basics of quality, and World Trade Center concrete. Certificates to document Personal Development Hours will be provided. Additional information is available online at concrete.mst.edu. Registration fee is $130 per person. For registration information, contact Missouri S&T's office of distance and continuing education at 573-341-4200 or macet@mst.edu. For technical information, contact Dr. David Richardson at 573-341-4487 or richardd@mst.edu.
May 7, 2013 – Energy Conference and Exhibition 2013 Suburban Showplace Collection, 46100 Grand River, Novi MI 48374 Hosted by DTE Energy and the Engineering Society of Detroit, this 16th annual conference is designed to educate small to large commercial and industrial businesses on energy technology, products and services that will assist them in successful energy
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management. The 2013 conference will focus on “Energy Efficiency” and will include several seminars and presentations. Sponsorships and Booths are available. Cost to attend is $35 Student Rate; $65 ESD Members; $85 Non-Members; $139 to become a Member of ESD at ½ off, which includes a one-year subscription to Crain’s Detroit Business. For more information, contact Tim Walker, ESD Director of Conferences, 248-353-0735 or visit www.esd.org.
July 25-28, 2013 – American Society of Concrete Contractors – Concrete Executive Leadership Forum The Breakers, Palm Beach, FL To register or for more information, visit www.ascconline.org or call 866-788-2722
September 12 – 15, 2013 - American Society of Concrete Contractors – Annual Conference Sheraton Columbus at Capital Square, Columbus, OH To register or for more information, visit www.ascconline.org or call 866-788-2722
Upcoming Classes for March & April • March 4 - Payment Bonds/A Remedy for Payment on Public Work Projects • March 5 - Excavations: The Grave Danger MTI Certificate Program Requirements (CET #0160) • March 7 - Account Receivable Management & Collections • March 12 - Advanced Bonding • March 19 - Dispute Resolution for the Construction Industry • March 20 - First Aid; CPR & AED COMBINED • April 2, 4 (T & Th), April 8, 10 (M & W) - OSHA 30-HOUR • April 9 - Scaffolds & Platforms - Part 12 - MTI Certificate Program Requirements (CET #0160) • April 18, 25 - Design Phase, Bidding & Proposals (Prerequisite- Blueprint Reading, or Blueprint Reading experience) • April 30 - Estimating (Prerequisite- Blueprint Reading, or Blueprint Reading experience) Visit our website at www.cam-online.com for more information or to register for classes.
COMING UP IN CAMTEC, the training & education division of CAM, offers a wide variety of classes, seminars and presentations on all aspects of construction. All sessions are available at the CAMTEC facility in the CAM headquarters located in Bloomfield Hills, or can be taken to the field on jobsites and office settings, etc. CAMTEC has an extensive listing of educational programs for the construction industry, and new classes are continuously added to the list. Programs are designed for the construction industry and are taught by instructors with experience in the industry practices and standards. Construction industry personnel are encouraged to call or write with suggestions for new course offerings to alfonsi@cam-online.com or dufresne@cam-online.com.
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ADVERTISERS INDEX ASSE (American Society of Safety Engineers) ....................................20 Ace Cutting Equipment..............................................................................50 Aluminum Supply Company/Marshall Sales ........................................6 Aoun & Company ........................................................................................13 Better Bolting ................................................................................................13 Bratic Enterprises, LLC ................................................................................47
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