Turner Construction Company Awards More Than $1 Billion to Minority and Women-Owned Subcontractors in 2013
New York, NY (PRWEB) May 12, 2014 -- Turner Construction Company has a strong record of outreach, education, and long-established partnerships with minority- and women-owned business enterprises (MWBEs) and this comprehensive program has resulted in contract awards and partnerships totaling more than $1 billion nationally to MWBEs each year for the last nine years.
Even during the recent economic downturn, Turner’s firm commitment to outreach remained strong and, since 1979, the company has awarded more than 65,000 contracts, for a total value of more than $22.7 billion, to MWBEs.
The company offers the Turner School of Construction Management which seeks to expand the opportunities available to MWBEs. More than 35,000 small business owners have graduated from the program, many of whom have gone on to win major construction contracts with Turner.
Notable projects that achieved outstanding MWBE inclusion results in 2013 include:
Mercy Health – West Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio - Winner of South Central Ohio’s Healthcare Supplier Diversity Spirit Award for a Major Supplier, the project team exceeded their inclusion goals, achieving an impressive 28 percent economic inclusion to MWBEs.
Maryland Public Health Lab Project – Baltimore, Maryland - The project team achieved a very aggressive 30 percent utilization with local businesses and achieved 33 percent utilization with minority- and women-owned businesses.
“Projects like these demonstrate our commitment to the larger goal of MWBE utilization across all of our work in all of our regions, and also highlight the extraordinary effort of our preconstruction and project teams to make it all happen on each project, establishing inclusion in both goals and actions,” said Karen Sweeney, senior vice president, Diversity, Inclusion and Community.
About Turner Construction Company
Turner is a North America-based, international construction services company founded in 1902. Embracing innovation and emerging technologies, Turner has grown to be the largest builder in diverse market segments and has earned recognition for its safety program and for undertaking large and complex projects around the globe. The firm is a subsidiary of HOCHTIEF, one of the world’s leading international construction service providers. For more information please visit http://www.turnerconstruction.com.
About HOCHTIEF
HOCHTIEF is one of the most international construction groups worldwide. The company delivers complex infrastructure projects, in some cases on the basis of concession models. The Group operates in the transportation infrastructure, energy infrastructure and social/urban infrastructure segments as well as in the contract mining business. With nearly 81,000 employees and a sales volume of more than EUR 25 billion in FY 2013, HOCHTIEF is represented in all the world’s major markets. With its subsidiary Leighton, the Group is market leader in Australia. In the USA, the biggest construction market in the world, HOCHTIEF is the No. 1 general builder via its subsidiary Turner and, with Group company Flatiron, ranks among the most important players in the field of transportation infrastructure construction. Because of its engagement for sustainability, HOCHTIEF has been listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes since 2006. Further information is available at http://www.hochtief.com/press.
Christopher McFadden, Turner Construction Company, http://www.turnerconstruction.com, +1 (212) 229-6145, [email protected]
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