RCI - Houston Business Roundtable (HBR) Safety Excellence Awards
Richard Construction, Inc. (RCI) participated, for the first time, in the Houston Business Roundtable Safety Excellence Evaluation Process. The HBR’s safety evaluation process in comparison to others was second to none. RCI was nominated by the Houston-Valero Major Projects Team.
An awards banquet was held on Friday, May 19th at Moody Gardens in Galveston, wherein RCI was the recipient of two prestigious awards: General Contractor Medium – “Best of the Best”, and the “2017 Newcomer of the Year.”
Another ABC contractor representing our organization so well; thanks RCI for doing such a great job!


Congratulations!
To The Recipients Of The National S.T.E.P. (Safety Training
and Evaluation Process) Award
Issued by Associated Builders
and Contractors (Diamond, Platinum and Gold Levels):
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APAC-Texas, Inc.
Bo-Mac Contractors, Ltd.
Echo Maintenance
Holes Golden Triangle, LLC
ISC Constructors, LLC
MMR Constructors, Inc.
Ohmstede Industrial Services
PCE Constructors, Inc.
PCL Industrial Construction Co.
Performance Contractors, Inc.
REPCON, Inc.
Turner Industries Group, LLC
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Greenberry Industrial
Safway Services
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BETCO Scaffolds
Richard Industrial Group
Trinity Industrial Services, LLC
Triple “S” Industrial Corporation
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ABC’s STEP: Merit-based safety recognition for the Merit Shop!
Established in 1989 by the ABC National Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) Committee, the Safety Training and Evaluation Process (STEP) program was developed and written by contractors, for contractors. There is no charge for this service (unless you are applying for STEP Diamond or Platinum), and your responses are strictly confidential.
SAFETY IS A CORE VALUE - WITH STEP, YOU CAN BUILD UPON IT
- Organized approach for analyzing and developing safety and loss prevention programs
- The Key Component system forms a 20 point guide to starting, updating or auditing a company-wide safety program
- Incorporates both OSHA required safety data with self-assessment requirements to give a full, wide ranging report on the entire nature of a company's Safety Program
- Designed to benefit both large and small contractors alike
- Recognition for ABC members at both National and Chapter level, with various recognition events held throughout the year
- Can also lead National Safety Excellence Awards and Accredited Quality Contractor recognition
- 2013 STEP data shows STEP participants beat BLS national averages in a number of areas, leading to benefits both when bidding for business and negotiating insurance rates
For more information about STEP, Contact ABC's Safety Department at: (202) 595-1855,
or email them at safety@abc.org.
Thanks and congratulations to all our local ABC member companies that participated in the 2016 S.T.E.P. award process and were recognized for their safety performance.

2015 GTBR Safety Awards Luncheon
On August 18th, 2015 the Golden Triangle Business Roundtable (GTBR), held its annual Safety Awards Luncheon, at the Holiday Inn Atrium Plaza in Beaumont. Several ABCSETX members were nominated, and others were recognized and received awards for their achievements in their overall categories. The winners are as follows:
Construction:
- Large – S&B Engineering and Construction for work performed @ Sunoco Logistics Partners
- Medium – Triple “S” Industrial Corporation for work performed @ Sunoco Logistics Partners
- Small – Echo Maintenance, LLC for work performed @ TOTAL Port Arthur Refinery
Maintenance:
- Large – Echo Maintenance, LLC for work performed @ Motiva Enterprises Port Arthur Refinery
- Medium – Zachry Industrial Services, Inc. for work performed @ ExxonMobil Beaumont Complex Lubricants & Specialties
- Small – B&E Resources, Ltd. for work performed @ Chevron PALP
Specialty:
- Large – Brock Services, LLC for work performed @ TOTAL Port Arthur Refinery
- Small – Brock Services, LLC for work performed @ Flint Hills Resources
Also, this is the second year that the “Donald T. Bouman’s Contractor Safety Award” was given. This prestigious award went to: Echo Maintenance, LLC!
Congratulations to all the Safety Achievement Award recipient companies and their employees on jobs well done; you make us proud! 
"Aggregate Technologies safely removed 340 precast panels weighing more than 2,000 pounds each from a fully operational federal office located on a busy city block by working at night and using two specially designed cranes mounted atop the 22-story building." read the official program. The award was given at the 25th Annual Excellence in Construction Awards Gala held on March 5, 2015, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Pictured below is Ben Ard, ATI project supervisor, and Nabil Mimouni, engineer, receiving the award. Details about the project are on the web site. This ABC Eagle award will join the previous award earned by ATI in 2012 for the M.D. Anderson Alkek Expansion project.


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At the 2013 ABC-National Legislative Conference in Washington, DC, the Southeast Texas Chapter was awarded the “Joe M. Rogers Award”, which is presented to those ABC chapters in each of ten divisions with the highest dollar amount above $50 per member company raised for ABC PAC and $100 per member company for the Free Enterprise Alliance.
This award was established in 2009 by the ABC PAC Board of Trustees and the Free Enterprise Alliance to honor the legacy of the late Joe M. Rodgers. During his time as an ABC member, Joe served as a founding member of ABC’s Mid-Tennessee chapter as well as its president. In 1976, he was elected ABC National Chairman. Joe’s continuous dedication to the principles of free enterprise and his accomplishments in leading the initiative that turned ABC into a major political force as well as coining the phrase “Get Into Politics, or Get Out of Business” earned him recognition in 2000 as an ABC Leader of the Century.”
EXCELLENCE IN CONSTRUCTION AWARD FROM ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS

March 2013—WASHINGTON, D.C. – Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today announced that Performance Contractors, Inc.’s work on the Pandora Ammonia/Methanol Turnaround project in Beaumont, Texas, has earned the company an Eagle award in the Industrial - $25-100 Million category of ABC’s Excellence in Construction Awards. Performance Contractors representatives received the award Feb. 20 during the 23rd annual Excellence in Construction Awards celebration at the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
“ABC is proud to recognize Performance Contractors for its outstanding work on the Pandora Ammonia/Methanol Turnaround project,” said Michael D. Bellaman, ABC president and CEO. “This project embodies a commitment to innovation, safety and superior craftsmanship through creativity and skill.”
The Excellence in Construction awards program is the industry’s leading competition, developed to honor innovative and high-quality merit shop construction projects. The award honors all construction team members, including the contractor, owner, architect and engineer. The winning projects, selected from entries submitted from across the nation, were judged on complexity, attractiveness, unique challenges overcome, completion time, workmanship, innovation, safety and cost.
After discovering the scope of the project was much larger than planned, Performance Contractors’ responsibilities for this $84 million project expanded to providing the logistics, equipment and fuel for the entire site.
A panel of industry experts served as the competition’s judges. This year's panel included representatives from the Design-Build Institute of America, Engineering News-Record, the American Institute of Architects, and the National Association of Women in Construction, and representatives from higher education, among others.
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Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) is a national association with 72 chapters representing 22,000 merit shop construction and construction-related firms. Visit us at www.abc.org.
MAY 10, 2012
ISC CONSTRUCTORS, LLC –2012 “ROY COMEAUX SAFETY AWARD” RECIPIENT

ISC Constructors, LLC was the finalist in the Industrial Safety Training Councils Safety 16th Annual “Safety Excellence Through Training” Awards Banquet held May 10th at the Holiday Inn, Beaumont Plaza in Beaumont, Texas.
This annual award ceremony recognizes many of the Golden Triangle’s contractors for their safety training programs and ISC walked away with the most prestigious award of the night; the Roy Comeaux Safety Excellence Through Training Award.
In order to win this award the recipient must not only exhibit superior levels of consistent safety performance but also demonstrate and maintain remarkable levels of effort in their employee safety training programs.
To qualify, contractor companies must provide the following information for review by the ISTC Awards Review Board, consisting of several of the local owner representatives. The award packet must include:
- A recordable incident rate of 1.0 or better,
- A copy of the company’s safety training program(s) for all employees,
- A sample of training documentation (including tests and rosters) for each training program,
- A copy of your company’s OSHA 300 logs for work done in the Gulf Coast area of Southeast Texas during the past five years, and
- A letter from your insurance company verifying the Experience Modifier Rate.
Since the Beaumont office has maintained a recordable incident rate of zero (0) since 2009 locally along with the OSHA Logs and Insurance letter, those items were of easily attainable. However, in order to provide a complete company safety training program it took several hours and days to get that part of the submittal prepared. Our Regional Safety Coordinator, along with an Administrative Asst., copied all the programs, rosters and samples of the tests from all of ISC’s various safety training programs. This, along with organizing all the documentation into a professional look for ISC’s submittal, took the most time to prepare. In all we had five 3” 3-ring binders full of information for our awards submittal.
ISC not only won the Roy Comeaux Award for Safety Excellence through Training Award, but also received awards for:
100% Reduction in Incident Rate - averaged for the three previous calendar years,
Sustained Recordable Incident Rate – achieve a “zero” recordable incident rate for three consecutive years,
2 Million Manhours Worked – achieve 1,000,000 or more manhours without a lost workday case involving days away from work or a fatality,
7 years Worked – achieve one or more years (365 consecutive days) without a lost workday case involving days away from work or a fatality.
Needless to say, ISC – Beaumont Region is very proud of all its Safety Team and Field Safety Managers and the consistent efforts put forth to ensure our associates go home safe each and every day.
ISC’s Vice President- Beaumont Region, Craig Messer, stated, “We are very excited to be recognized by ISTC for our outstanding safety performance and training programs. Our team at ISC has grown here in the Golden Triangle and we feel that this very prestigious award validates the importance of our training programs for all employees. We are honored to be the recipient of the 2012 Roy Comeaux Safety Excellence Through Training Award.”


The Construction Users Roundtable Salutes
2011 Safety Excellence Award Winners
Cincinnati, OH
The Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) is proud to announce its annual Construction Industry
Safety Excellence (CISE) Award Winners and calls upon the industry to continue its
progress in promoting construction site safety across the United States, Canada and the rest of the globe. As one of its core initiatives CURT is committed to working towards continued improvement in construction industry safety performance.
The Construction Users Roundtable is an association of leading corporations dedicated to the
promotion of cost effective construction methods. The members, as major consumers of construction services seek to foster improved construction safety performance through recognition of the achievement of excellence and the promotion of proven effective work practices.
The CISE program seeks to encourage efforts to improve safety by recognizing safety leaders in
all segments of the construction industry. Award applications were distributed to CURT
members as well as leading national contractor associations and local construction user councils
throughout the United States and Canada.
“The CURT Construction Industry Safety Excellence (CISE) Award winners have once again established new levels of safety performance, achievement, and innovation that proves zero incidents can be achieved. Our class of 2010 award recipients have reinforced our belief that owner
companies, contractor companies, and our skilled crafts can partner effectively together to design
and build complex domestic and international projects that meet specific business needs and provide jobs while protecting the health and safety of all workers. CURT is proud to present world class performance and teamwork resulting in the highest commitment to safety as defined by the Owner Safety Blueprint. Please join me in applauding these leaders of industry who by example
demonstrate that construction safety is not just an idea but a reality.”
~ Greg Landis, Co-Chairman, CURT Safety Committee
The CURT CISE Owner Safety Awards were presented to:
Owner Company Operating Entity:
ExxonMobil Refining & Supply-Baytown Refinery
Procter & Gamble Iowa City Plant
Global Facilities Delivery, Eli Lily and Company-Honorable Mention
Specific US Construction Project, 3-12 Months in Duration:
Merck & Co., Inc. QO Lab Project: Durham, NC
Specific US Construction Project 12 Months in Duration:
E.I. DuPont-Cooper River Kevlar™ Spinning Project, Moncks Corner, SC
DuPont-Louisville-VF Expansion Phase 4 Project
The Dow Chemical Company, Engineering Solutions, St. Charles Operations EO Only
Project-Honorable Mention
Specific International Project:
Procter & Gamble Baby Care-October 6 Site
These awards recognize the important role of owners in managing safety performance and achieving excellent results. The winners were selected from among dozens of applications.
The CURT CISE Constructor Safety Awards went to contractors in various categories recognizing their outstanding safety performances over the past three years.
Award recipients were:
NAICS Code 236: General Building Contractors
<or=500,000 man hours/year-Centennial Contractors
>2 million man hours/year-Gilbane Building Company
NAICS Code 237: Heavy Construction Contractors
>500K and < or =2MM man hours/year-Triple “S” Industrial Corporation
>2 million man hours/year-URS Energy & Construction
NAICS Code 238: Special Trade Contractors
<or=500,000 man hours/year-Gribbins Insulation Co., Inc.
>2MM man hours/year-Rosendin Electric, Inc.
Encouraging owners and contractors to adopt the principles outlined in the newly released CURT
publication entitled, “The Construction Owners’ Safety Blueprint,” demonstrates CURT’s commitment to promoting a safer construction industry.
“Safety Improvement will continue to be a key deliverable and core value for CURT and its member
firms. Those who do an outstanding job at reducing construction workers’ injuries are to be
commended,” said Gregory Sizemore, CURT Executive Vice President. He continues, “Owners will
continue to work towards continuous safety improvement.”
CURT announced these prestigious awards and made the presentations at its 2011
National Conference at The Wild Horse Pass, Chandler, Arizona (Phoenix) on November
8, 2011.
Performance Contractors, Inc. Earns National Award from
Associated Builders and Contractors

WASHINGTON, D.C .– Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today announced that Performance Contractors, Inc., work on the MPP Recommission Project in BASF/Beaumont, has earned the company a Pyramid Award in the Industrial - $5 - $15 Million Dollar Category of ABC’s Excellence in Construction Awards. Performance Contractors, Inc. representatives received the award Feb. 22 during the 21st annual Excellence in Construction Awards celebration at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Orlando, Fla.
“This project is an outstanding example of the innovation and commitment to superior craftsmanship that embody merit shop construction,” said Michael D. Bellaman, ABC president and CEO.
The Excellence in Construction awards program is the industry’s leading competition, developed to honor innovative and high-quality merit shop construction projects and safety programs. The award honors all construction team members, including the contractor, owner, architect and engineer. The winning projects, selected from entries submitted from across the nation, were judged on complexity, attractiveness, unique challenges overcome, completion time, workmanship, innovation, safety and cost.
This year's competition was open to all construction projects completed by ABC member firms in 2010.
A panel of industry experts served as the competition’s judges. This year's panel included representatives from the Design-Build Institute of America, Engineering News-Record, the American Institute of Architects, and the National Association of Women in Construction, and representatives from higher education, among others.
Richard Construction Earns National Safety Excellence Award from
Associated Builders and Contractors

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today announced that Richard Construction, Inc., Beaumont, Texas, maintained a safety record that has earned the company recognition in the Heavy and Civil Engineering Contractor category of ABC’s National Safety Excellence Awards. Richard Construction’s representatives received the award February 22 during the 21st annual Excellence in Construction awards celebration at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Orlando, Fla.
“ABC is proud to congratulate Richard Construction for its success in maintaining the highest level of construction workplace safety in 2011,” said Michael D. Bellaman, ABC president and CEO. “Creating a safe environment for workers is an ongoing process that requires vigilance and dedication. It is a pleasure to honor this company’s achievement with our National Safety Excellence Award.”
The 2011 National Safety Excellence Award winners were selected from ABC member firms that achieved Platinum status in ABC's Safety Training and Evaluation Process (STEP) program. During the selection process, national safety winners were judged on self-evaluation scores, lost workday case rates, total recordable rates, and interviews conducted by members of ABC’s National Environment, Health & Safety Committee.
The National Safety Excellence Awards are presented in three major North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code categories: NAICS 236 – Construction of Buildings; NAICS 237 – Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; and NAICS 238 – Specialty Trade Contractors.
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