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May 03, 2022
Redmond-based electrical and technologies contractor Sequoyah promoted Kyle Curre to preconstruction manager and hired Zoey Zemanek as senior marketing and communications specialist. Curre, part of Sequoyah's team since 2012, began his career as a field supervisor. The company says his unique combination of practical field experience and conceptual thinking spurred his pursuit of a management career, and starting in estimating, he quickly found his passion in preconstruction, engineering and pre-planning. Zemanek is assisting the marketing team in project pursuits, as well as internal and external communication campaigns.
Associated General Contractors of America named Boise State University as one of its most successful student chapters of 2021. BSU's chapter won the Construction Management Skills Award for its effort to restore the historic “woodshed” at Schick-Ostolasa Farmstead. To go along with the award, the chapter received $2,000, as well as an additional $1,000 travel stipend to attend AGC's annual convention. Two other schools — University of Massachusetts Amherst and Kansas State University — also won awards.
SAK Builders, FPH Construction, Gino Campanoli Crane Service, Sound Glass Sales and Palmer Scholars joined the Associated General Contractors of Washington's Southern District in Tacoma.
Apr 26, 2022
A team from Skanska USA led local students on a tour last week of the Sound Transit L-300 light rail jobsite in Lynnwood. The students toured the garage being built at the Lynnwood City Center station jobsite, and got up onto the station and rail line itself. This was Skanska's third “Youth in Construction” event, which is part of a program it runs with the Office of African American Male Achievement at Seattle Public Schools. A key element to the program is the “Passport Project,” which aims to showcase the breadth of careers available within the industry, such as tradespeople, engineers, BIM technicians, financial managers and marketers.
Transblue, a Seattle-area general contractor, appointed Brett Estok as vice president of business development. Estok is leading Transblue's expansion strategy to enhance its national presence, opening new doors for its business and franchise owners. Estok is prioritizing national projects, including electrical vehicle charging, snow removal services, and property upgrades such as asphalt and roofing projects. He has nearly 10 years of sales and business management experience, most recently in the facility maintenance space. Transblue is a construction management and maintenance firm specializing in residential, commercial, government and multifamily properties.
The Associated General Contractors of America last month presented the AGC of Washington Education Foundation with the $7,000 grand prize of the AGC Innovation Awards. The awards program recognizes members of the construction industry that craft innovative solutions to pressing industry challenges. The Education Foundation was cited for its Core Plus Construction program, which introduces students and educators to construction careers as a way to overcome labor shortages in the industry. The program allows high school students to explore construction careers through construction trades classes that provide credit equivalencies for third year math, science, and English language arts and industry certification.
California-based Harbor Freight Tools is offering $1.25 million this year in its Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence contest. Harbor Freight plans to honor 20 outstanding public high school skilled trades teachers this year. Five grand prize winners will each get $100,000 and 15 others will get $50,000 each. Teachers can submit applications until May 20 to hftforschoolsprize.org. Finalists will be announced on June 27 and winners in October.