MarkWester launches Rising Trade Partners, a mentoring program for emerging firms
A year-long program that pairs small and emerging trade contractors with our estimators, project managers and safety leaders.
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Insights · 12 articles
Insights
News, progress from our sites and the thinking of the people who build them.
Design-build or CM at-risk? Choose the delivery model by risk, not habit
Each delivery model shares risk differently. A short guide to matching the contract to the project, the owner and the market.
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Building inside a working hospital: five rules we never break
Infection control, noise, vibration, utilities and wayfinding. What it takes to build next to patients who cannot be moved.
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MarkWester expands its self-perform concrete and steel crews
More of our own craft professionals on more of our sites, for tighter control of the work that sets the schedule.
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Our performing arts center recognized for construction excellence
Recognized for the acoustic isolation, craftsmanship and schedule discipline behind the region’s newest concert hall.
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Prefabrication is a schedule strategy, not a factory trick
Moving work off site pays off when it is planned around the critical path, not bolted on after the design is done.
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Ready before the storm: our disaster response teams are on standby
Pre-positioned equipment, standing agreements and trained crews mean recovery can start the day it is safe to begin.
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Our utility-scale solar plant reaches mechanical completion
Trackers installed, collector substation energized and the plant now in commissioning ahead of commercial operation.
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Our multi-purpose arena tops out ahead of its opening-night date
The final roof truss is set, the bowl is enclosed and interior trades are moving in on a schedule built backwards from opening night.
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Highway corridor: the final interchange opens to traffic
The fourth and final interchange on the highway corridor opened overnight, completing eleven lane-miles rebuilt under live traffic.
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Highway corridor crews pass one million work hours without a lost-time injury
A milestone earned shift by shift, by every crew and trade partner on the corridor.
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