One of the country’s original concrete contractors, Turner Construction Co., recently announced a $280 million contract for The Stanford University Graduate School of Business Knight Management Center
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One of the country’s original concrete contractors, Turner Construction Co., recently announced a $280 million contract for The Stanford University Graduate School of Business Knight Management Center. The northern California job marks the 15,000th major contract in the 106-year history of Turner Construction, which emerged as a standard-bearer thanks to its development of reinforced concrete building methods in turn-of-the-century New York City.
The LEED-certified, 360,000-sq.-ft. Knight Management Center will be comprised of eight buildings, scheduled for Spring 2011 completion. After reflecting on the contracting milestone, plus a host of Knight Center green building features, Turner officials announced a commitment to reduce the company’s carbon emissions by five percent over the next five years. Toward that goal, staff will lower electricity consumption in offices and fuel consumption in company-owned and leased vehicles. Turner pinpointed the CO2 reduction as a member of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Leaders program, an industry-government partnership that works with companies to develop comprehensive climate change strategies. Turner was the first construction management firm to join Climate Leaders, in 2006, and set a greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal.