“We were able to do this by tearing down the typical construction silos and separation between the owner, design team and contractor,” Wilson says, adding that the team worked together to find solutions instead of fault.

One safety initiative involved equipping tower cranes with anti-collision devices, a practice that Brasfield & Gorrie has implemented firm-wide. Another was STCKY, or Stuff That Can Kill You, a safety initiative piloted on the project and also subsequently rolled out company-wide. Instead of focusing on traditional metrics like recordable incident rates, the program focuses on categories like falls, utility strikes, confined spaces and falling objects to anticipate failure. Those are stressed during daily safety meetings and controls are placed before work starts to mitigate potential hazards. As a result, the project logged 386,492 worker hours on the project with zero lost-time accidents and a recordable incident rate of 0.51.