Midtown Union
Atlanta
Excellence in safety
Region: Hell Southeast
Sent by: Brasfield and Gorrie
Owner: Granite properties, metlife, residential streetlight
Lead design company: Cooper Cary
General contractor: Brasfield and Gorrie
Civil Engineer: Kimley-horn
Structural Engineer: Long+cover
MEP Engineer: Newcomb and Boyd
Hotel Developer: AMS Hospitality
Brasfield & Gorrie was able to safely execute the simultaneous construction of a 26 -story office tower, a 26 -story residential tower and a 14 -story hotel in a place adjusted to Urban Atlanta, gathering a team that kept the project on the court, keeping the crew safe on the ground, even when four tower cranes and a mobile tracker worked simultaneously.
Heath Wilson, Brasfield and Gorrie Operations Manager, says that the project was a solution proof that has become standards for the contractor. The success of the project was to build a team and forge lasting relationships, he adds, creating a culture that saw that the owner, design and contractor teams come together to solve challenges.
“We have been able to do this by tearing the typical construction silos and the separation between the owner, the design team and the contractor,” says Wilson, who added that the team worked together to find solutions instead of failure.
A security initiative was to equip the tower cranes with anti-choice devices, a practice that Brasfield and Gorrie have implemented throughout the firm. Another was Stcky, or things that can kill you, a security initiative in the project and also published later the whole company. Instead of focusing on traditional metrics, such as registered incidents, the program focuses on categories such as Falls, usefulness, confined spaces and falling objects to anticipate. They are emphasized during daily security meetings and controls are placed before the work begins to mitigate possible dangers. As a result, the project recorded 386,492 hours of the worker in the project with zero lost time accidents and a registered incident rate of 0.51.
