June 20, 2013  
Safely Exceeding Expectations
Cast in Concrete: The Official Wayne Brothers Blog
 

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May

2013

WBI Receives NCDOL Award

Wayne Brothers received an award on Friday from the NCDOL for 1,000,000 man hours with No Lost Time Accident. This award was presented by Commissioner Berry at the Raleigh Marriott. Our Safety Director, Jason Sisk, accepted the award on behalf of our entire 375 craft, supervision and management team members. We are exceptionally proud to be recognized at this point in our continual  journey toward our company Vision of “Safely Exceeding Expectations”.

We understand from NCDOL that with this award we will become the 19th company in NC since 1998 with comparable risk codes to have achieved the 1,000,000 safe work hour milestone.

We wish to thank the CAGC for the numerous years of support for our continued learning in the area of construction safety. -Keith Wayne, President/CEO 

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Jul

2012

Envision- New Rating System Addresses Nation's Crumbling Infrastructure

"Envision" is a sustainability rating system for infrastructure projects that can help the design team. "Envision applies to almost any kind of civil infrastructure OTHER than buildings," said Bill Bertera, executive director of the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure. "What makes this system stand out ... is that it provides tools that can be applied to an infrastructure project at any point during its life cycle."Sustainable Construction magazine (Summer 2012).

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Mar

2012

USGBC Drafting Robust Data Center Standards

The U.S. Green Building Council is drafting its first set of standards for data-center projects as the growing sector has struggled to meet energy-efficiency benchmarks.

The U.S. data-center construction market increased to about $15 billion today from . . .

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Mar

2011

Construction Jobs | What to Expect

Construction Job Stress

Construction jobs involve the danger of operating machinery, without proper control and high alertness; accidents can happen in an instant.   Also, construction workers often follow a tight schedule with heavy penalty fines imposed if the building is not completed on time; this puts pressure on everyone working on the construction job site to work faster. Thus, people working at a construction project often . . . 

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Mar

2011

Understanding Concrete Test Reports

What is a Concrete Test Report?

A Document that records data obtained from an experiment of evaluation in an organized manner, describes the environmental or operating conditions, and shows the comparison of test results with test objectives.  The data included in a concrete test report is used in specification compliance determination and can be used in quality control evaluations.  Effective use of the data comes from a better understanding of the report . . .

 

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