Granite Construction Company of Arizona Wins Marvin M. Black Excellence in Partnering Award for Silverbell Road Sanitary Sewer Interceptor Project
Arizona's Granite Construction was honored today for its work installing new sewer systems under a busy road and near dense developments northwest of Tucson. The project was one of just three to receive the 2009 Associated General Contractors of America's (AGC) Marvin M. Black Excellence in Partnering Award.
"These awards acknowledge and encourage the fact that great builders must also be clear communicators and strong coordinators," said Doug Pruitt, the association's president. "Finesse, patience and planning are as essential as concrete and steel for converting plans into reality."
Since the road reconstruct project covered a major transportation corridor and touched a public park, new housing, a library, an historic Indian village and the Santa Cruz River, Granite Construction had to forge a strong partnership with many different groups. Thanks to a lot of hard work and communications, the company was able to complete the project ahead of schedule and within budget.
"Partnering provided the process to mutually attain the end goals when numerous obstacles surfaced that could derail the project," said Chuck Johnson, Arizona region Construction Manager for Granite Construction. "All stakeholders embraced partnering, in true form, to achieve the aggressive goals of the project."
Pruitt noted that the other two 2009 Marvin M. Black Excellence in Partnering Award winners are Newport Beach-based McCarthy Building Companies for its work building a new patient care tower for Mission Hospital; and Omaha, Nebraska-based Kiewit and Tempe, Arizona-based Sundt Construction for the rehabilitation of I-10 in Tucson.
In addition to the three main award winners, Pruitt said the following companies received special recognition awards for their partnering efforts: Consigli Construction of Milford, Massachusetts for its work building the Lt. Murphy Combat Training Pool in Newport, Rhode Island; Atlanta, Georgia's Ruby-Collins, Hoboken, Georgia's Environmental Pipeline Rehabilitation Inc. and Orleans, Indiana's Reynolds Inc. for their work on Atlanta's Greensferry Basin Sewer Separation Project; Gilbane Building Company of Vienna, Virginia for the new Dickinson School of Law in State College, Pennsylvania; Colorado's MWH Constructors for its work on the Cape Coral, Florida Utilities Extension Program; San Francisco's Swinerton Builders for its work on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Flight Projects Center in Pasadena, California; and Longmont, Colorado's Flatiron for its work on the Lenihan Dam Outlet modifications in Los Gatos, California.
View photos of the winning projects.
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