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around the region // fall


Top Denver-based Mather Architectural Design
chose Hakatai Enterprises glass mosaic tile to help
refurbish the company’s unique master bath-
room. Middle Sukut’s Equipment Safety
Superintendent John Casperson (left) receives
the 2007 Contractor’s Safety Award from Safety
Committee member Dean Pultz.

The Southwest Scene


> A safety milestone, a record tall building and a leader in
renewable energy – plus a number of promotions – are
among the Southwest’s top company news. Genevieve Diesing

Safety Pays Off that light up in the dark.


The Southern California Contractors “Pacific Life had an aggressive
Association recently awarded the 2007 timeline to complete the building at
Contractor’s Safety Award to Santa 45 Enterprise,” said Mike Bell, execu-
Ana, Calif.-based Sukut Construction. tive vice president of Pacific Life’s life
The employee-owned company record- insurance division. “Snyder Langston
ed fewer accidents and lost workdays delivered on-time a high-quality and
than the industry average, it said, by well-built office space, which allows
focusing on safer work practices and our 1,000 associates to work together
environments. more efficiently as we strive to provide
The company organized in small higher levels of service to our clients.”
groups that came up with lists of the
most consistent safety hazards, and
then brainstormed to improve the Green Power Leader
necessary practices. “At the end, you Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel
wind up with some real innovative Corp. announced early this year that
solutions,” Safety and Compliance it would buy more than 1.3 billion kilo-
Director H.F. “Rick” McCourt said. watt hours a year of renewable energy
“Part of it is making sure the safe prac- certificates as part of an effort to lower
tices in place are being followed and no its impact on the environment, it says.
short cuts are being taken.” This purchase will make Intel the single-
largest corporate purchaser of green
Reaching Heights power in the United States, according
Irvine, Calif.-based Snyder Langston to the U.S. Environmental Protection
recently finished construction on a Agency (EPA).
nine-story office tower for Newport “By voluntarily shifting to renewable
Beach, Calif.-based Pacific Life energy, Intel is proving you don’t need to
Insurance Co., which makes it Aliso wait for a signal in order to go green,” EPA
Viejo’s tallest building. The 246,600- Administrator Stephen L. Johnson said.
square-foot edifice accommodates
about 1,000 Pacific Life employees on
5.5 acres. Mixed-Use Contract in Phoenix
Snyder Langston kept a fast pace on Des Moines, Iowa-based Weitz
the project, which began in November Co. LLC was selected by RED
2006, said Senior Project Manager Development LLC and the City of
Chad Olson. The company collaborated Phoenix to perform preconstruction
with the City of Aliso Viejo and devel- and construction services on Block
oper Parker Properties on the Class-A 77, one of three blocks in the CityScape
office tower, which features a pre-cast mixed-use project in downtown
concrete exterior, glass and metal pan- Phoenix. The project includes archi-
els and upper-floor Pacific Life logos tectural, structural, mechanical, elec-

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