Keith Wayne has experienced all sides of the construction market cycle in the 33 years since he and his brother, Eric, formed their namesake concrete and civil contracting business in Davidson, N.C. So, for him to call the Southeast region’s current sustained surge “the best” he’s seen is saying something.

韦恩谈到承包商的基石制造业时说:“我们仍在看到整个行业喜欢在东南部工作的想法。”“所有领域的表现都很好,对我们的贸易工作的需求也很强劲。”

最后的评论说明了韦恩兄弟公司(Wayne Brothers Inc.)从当前的强劲市场中受益多少,以及作为ENR东南部年度专业承包商选择的因素。新利18备用在今年的排名中,这家450家公司的2017年东南地区收入总计约9670万美元,比去年调查中报道的8338万美元增长了约16%。最近的主要项目包括为新南卡新利18备用网址罗来纳州查尔斯顿附近的新梅赛德斯·贝尼斯·范(Mercedes Benz)制造工厂完成价值1700万美元的基础工作。

WBI网站和基础设施开发服务的迅速扩展既提高了公司的底线及其人事数量,大约有100名员工致力于这些项目。新利18备用网址今年早些时候,WBI完成了对Intespec Inc.的收购,该公司提供设备安装服务,例如索具和设置,关联的流程管道安装以及系统设计和布局。

根据公司的数据,这为2018年的表现奠定了基础。根据该公司的数据,第一季度的账单为3800万美元。

As with most every other specialty contractor, Wayne Brothers is capitalizing on the success of its clients, which Keith Wayne says is limited to a select group of national and regional general contractors. While most of the firm’s work is based in the Carolinas, WBI has over the years gradually expanded its footprint to neighboring states as clients have followed industrial growth into those areas.

但是,不仅仅是在正确的时间认识合适的人的问题。韦恩·兄弟(Wayne Brothers)对BIM和其他技术的拥抱使该公司在处理重型工业基础和复杂的模板方面具有优势,这需要特殊的强化。

Proftruction副总裁Bobby Phillips说,通过将其所有BIM技术资源融入国内,韦恩兄弟可以将工作完全建模而无需现场决策或修订。

“General contractors build off of our model,” says Phillips, who joined the company in 1986. “You don’t get the disconnect that often occurs when the concrete sub leaves because (its) part of the job is done.”

技术还可以帮助韦恩兄弟(Wayne Brothers)遵守客户的加速时间表,这些日程安排已经变得司空见惯。韦恩(Wayne)列举了格雷建筑公司最近在南卡罗来纳州纽伯里县(Newberry County)对一家前毛毛虫(Caterpillar)工厂进行了翻新,以三星的3.8亿澳元制造工厂为例。

他说:“许多深厚的基础工作必须迅速进行,需要将近24/7的方法。”“我们只需要在短短三到四个月内就完全重建约50万平方英尺。”

格雷南大西洋地区副总裁布雷特·古德(Brett Goode)说:“他们是出色的计划者。”“当他们进入现场时,他们会通过领导和计划来推动日程安排。他们的民事部门在挖掘深刻的基础时为他们提供了更大的灵活性。”

Along with helping solve clients’ problems, technology helps Wayne Brothers compete for the coveted pool of new, younger workers.

韦恩认为,尽管限制了公司的增长,但公司致力于建立熟练,有能力的劳动力的承诺至关重要。韦恩说:“除了基本工具之外,您还需要提供一些东西,因为即使是工艺品工人现在也喜欢从模型而不是商店图纸上建立模板。”

Being able to deliver these and other benefits typically carries a premium that Phillips says most clients are willing to accept. Approximately three-quarters of the firm’s work involves a negotiated price.

“As long as they’re willing to negotiate, we can deliver anything,” he says, adding that a higher price brings higher expectations, “and we have to continually work hard to meet them.”

这包括寻找满足苛刻要求的方法。该公司劳动力改善副总裁约翰·阿什沃思(John Ashworth)回忆起一个涉及大型印刷机械的项目,该项目需要4英尺厚的基础和高地面耐受性。

“It was unlikely we could accomplish both with a single pour,” he says. “We went back to the project engineer and proposed a horizontal break—pouring the foundation to a certain level, then adding a cap that met the tolerance requirement.”

Not only did Wayne Brothers’ suggestion work, it paid off with a follow-up assignment a year later when a facility expansion included adding a new line of equipment with the same foundation requirements.

“他们雇了我们的工作,我们做了that foundation the same way,” Ashworth says.


强调安全

与韦恩兄弟(Wayne Brothers)的项目活动一样,该公司为其安全文化感到自豪,这在过去11年中一直是重点。该公司从招聘过程开始就强调安全合规性,并要求所有员工完成10或30小时的OSHA培训。该公司安全总监Jason Sisk表示,Wayne Brothers的EMR为0.67,OSHA可记录率远低于行业平均水平。

2017年5月,WBI获得了北卡罗来纳州劳动部的首个黄金安全奖,以表彰该公司的发病率至少低于行业平均水平。

然而,即使是最有安全感的公司,也必须保持持续的警惕。Sisk回忆起五年前与设备相关的事件的增加导致成立了一个委员会,该委员会既检查原因又有纠正措施。当事件率降低时,委员会停止了会议。而且,当注意力在其他地方的关注时经常发生,事件开始重发生。

“Now we meet regularly to review what we’re doing and stay alert for new ideas or potential problems,” Sisk says.

That includes augmenting supervisors’ daily pre-task planning session with employees to include an additional session after lunch, and as needed, such as when a crane arrives on site or a thunderstorm arises. Where possible, safety is being factored into each project’s BIM model.


“我看到我们聪明地多样化。获取intespec就是一个例子,因为它补充了我们所做的其他工作。”

- 韦恩兄弟公司(Wayne Brothers Inc.)总裁Keith Wayne。

这些措施和其他措施还导致了将近一年的950,000个工作时间,而没有丢失时间事故。

“We were disappointed that we couldn’t make it to 1 million hours,” Sisk says. “But the important thing is that the employee is recovering, and we’re aiming to go on another streak.”

实现雄心勃勃的安全里程碑可能比克服WBI和其他东南承包商面临的其他挑战更容易。韦恩说,拟议的关税很可能会对公司的主要制造业领域产生阴影,从而影响它“比某些人意识到的要多”。

菲利普斯(Phillips)补充说,有限的劳动力可用性几乎将WBI扩展到了极限,“增加了我们不足以使我们承诺的风险。”

除了吸引更多分包商外,WBI还加强了内部培训工作,包括一项学徒计划,该计划使新移民尽可能多地接触现场经验。

菲利普斯说:“他们是好孩子,他们想学习。”“但是他们只能做很多事情,而没有真正减慢我们的工匠。我们确实需要经验丰富的贸易人。”

Ashworth adds that “a challenge within the challenge” of workforce training is that, unlike previous generations, many new workers didn’t receive the childhood exposure to working outdoors or performing relatively routine construction-related tasks.

他说:“我们必须不断地适应他们需要学习的知识以及他们学习的方式。”

以行业为重点的教育和培训也是WBI另一代世代过渡的基础。埃里克·韦恩(Eric Wayne)于2004年退休,尽管基思·韦恩(Keith Wayne)没有立即退休计划,但他的儿子以赛亚(Isaiah)和丹尼尔(Daniel)现在是该公司的合作伙伴。

“We’re grooming the next generation to take on greater roles as they transition into leadership roles over the next decade or so,” Keith Wayne says, adding that he expects WBI to stay close to its current concrete-based specialty.

他说,与其添加其他学科,“我认为我们巧妙地分散到与我们已经做过的领域相关的领域。”“获取intespec就是一个例子,因为它补充了我们所做的其他工作。”

只要GC需要WBI的专业知识,韦恩说:“我们将在他们需要我们的任何地方去。”