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Minnesota-Based Pipeliner Achieves Safety Milestone

Construction Equipment

United Piping (UPI), based in Duluth, Minnesota, finished 2019 with a record of 2.5 million hours worked without a lost-time injury. The company is a pipeline contractor that works in pipeline maintenance and construction, fabrication, horizontal directional drilling, hydrostatic testing, and…

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Reopening Minnesota: What Businesses Need to Know about Workplace Safety and Preventing the Spread of Covid-19

Safety Services Company

Business reopening is now in Phase III of the Stay Safe Plan , initiated by Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz. Basic Guidelines per Minnesota’s Stay Safe Initiative. These guidelines should also meet the state executive orders associated with health and safety in the workplace. Outlining a Covid-19 Preparedness Program in Minnesota.

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Minnesota Contractors Argue Against Testing, Vaccination Mandates

Pro Builder

Minnesota Contractors Argue Against Testing, Vaccination Mandates. The Associated General Contractors of Minnesota, along with other construction trade groups, took a stance against the state’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirements, saying the mandate would be costly and time consuming. cbroderick. Fri, 08/27/2021 - 09:51.

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Minnesota School Projects Study Says Unions Increase Safety Without Higher Costs

ENR Construction

New study says that union construction projects are similar in cost to non-union projects because higher union labor costs are offset by savings in other project components such as materials and safety, but critics point to prevailing wage laws that may have skewed its findings.

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Excellence in Safety Award of Merit 35W Minnesota River Bridge Design-Build

ENR Construction

The 60-year-old bridge spanning the Minnesota River has been replaced with a twin-structure crossing that provides long-needed added traffic capacity while also eliminating flooding issues at the approaches.

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Fire door safety: How can specifiers help?

Construction Specifier

In 2019, a fire in a Minneapolis, Minnesota, high-rise apartment building resulted in five fatalities. The post Fire door safety: How can specifiers help? During the inquiry into this incident, it was revealed most of the self-closing doors were not functioning properly the night of the fire, allowing smoke and flames to spread.

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No summer vacation for the GC Kraus Anderson

BD+C

-based general contractor Kraus-Anderson has been busy this summer, having finished the construction and/or remodeling of several education, public safety, and healthcare projects in Wisconsin and Minnesota. They include: A new 37,000-sf fire station was added to an existing police station in Minnetonka, Minn.

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