2022 Merck Contractor of the Year Award

In 2022 we were nominated by our Construction Managers onsite at Merck West Point, PA's campus for the work we performed that year. In early 2023 we were notified that we won the award!

In 2022 we took on some of the largest and most complex projects in our company's history onsite at Merck West Point. We have performed this work ahead of schedule, and safely. A tremendous effort and execution by our personnel, and the Teams leading these projects.

A few statistics on our work performed in 2022 for Merck:

• •We worked nearly 60,000 hours throughout multiple projects onsite at Merck West Point, PA campus

• Over 8,000 manhours of Project Staff (Exec, PM, APM, etc)

• Over 10,000 manhours of design assist/detailing efforts

• Over 35,000 shop/offsite fabrication manhours.

• We installed nearly 280,000 lbs. of sheet metal, a 90,000 lb. air handling unit, and 7 exhaust fans.

• We removed over 150,000 lbs. of mechanical equipment and heavy gauge ductwork off the roof of a building in operational.

• Our crews worked many weekends throughout 2022, often around-the-clock. This work was performed in 48 hour shutdown periods with large capacity crane lifts.

Our involvement with onsite safety at Merck West Point goes past just the work we perform on the jobs we are contracted on, a few notes on our involvement:

• We have a representative on the Contractor Safety Council, which meets monthly to discuss challenges onsite.

• We used an SOR Incentive program to encourage participation from the trade craft.

• We attended all safety standdowns, stretch and flex, owners’ meetings, and all safety/site meetings hosted by Merck or EPCM’s.

• We participate in the mental health/wellbeing program and has (3) mental health champions among our workforce.

• We maintained a fulltime non-working safety professional onsite every day who manages worker trainings, toolbox talks, and supports SPA’s and JSA’s.

• We have two (2) full time APM’s who handle all site access, JSA’s, and other logistical efforts.

Merck is on the leading-edge of science to save and improve lives around the world, and we are proud to call them a customer of ours.

Thank you to Merck for providing lunch to our Fabrication Shop in June 2023, and presenting us with our '2022 Contractor of the Year' plaque for our work up at Merck's West Point, PA campus in 2022..