When it bid steel erection on the McCormick Place expansion, Shakopee, Minn.-based Danny’s Construction Co. Inc. proposed an unusual combination of access equipment that its engineers believed would dramatically improve the ironworkers’ ability to move quickly and safely on the tightly scheduled project.
As it turns out, the firm’s novel scheme of rolling scaffolds, falsework and mobile aerial devices caught the attention of project executives and local safety inspectors. ”It brought a whole new awareness of safety,” says Katie Twomey, vice president for design-builder Mc4West and Bethesda, Md.-based Clark Construction Group.