尽管2020年看到许多行业被关闭了几个月，而其他行业则被迫li行，但大流行对生产的影响只是对基于犹他州的Big-D建筑的雷达的影响。承包商从不关闭其办公室，并使所有项目都向前发展。新利18备用网址由于需求增加，包括食品和饮料在内，在Big-D的某些部门工作甚至加速了。

“Food and beverage is our wheelhouse,” says Forrest McNabb, president of Big-D’s Mountain West Group and the firm’s National Food and Beverage Group. The groups’ projects in 2020 included Tyson Foods’ new beef and pork processing facility, the ENR award-winning United States Cold Storage addition in Syracuse and the Oatly alternative milk production plant in Ogden.

麦克纳布说：“ 2020年对我们来说是创纪录的一年，因为我们所处的利基市场。”

Big-D由Carpenter（Big）Dee Livingood于1967年创立，已在八个地区办事处增长到1,500名员工（1,700-1,800名流行前），产生了超过10亿美元的年收入。该承包商最近被任命为全美排名前100名承包商之一，并且连续27年一直是ENR 40新利18备用0名承包商。

该公司的山区度假村集团Big-D Signature总裁Mike Kerby说：“ Big-D立即在[Covid]协议上跳跃了一项令人难以置信的工作，这使我们非常适应它。”“我们的人民是我们的首要任务。”

大流行期间，在泰森食品的鹰山牛肉和猪肉加工厂进行了工作。
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计划和协议

During the pandemic, Big-D leadership created a campaign called “Respect & Protect,” which enacted additional safety protocols supported by signage at its jobsites and offices. The company held monthly virtual town hall meetings, presented by President Cory Moore, to address questions, challenges and goals for working remotely and on evolving jobsites.

麦克纳布说：“我们从每月的董事会会议转到了与每个办公室的每周领导会议，呼吁我们在全国范围内做什么，以确保人民和潜艇的安全。”“我们没有错过任何节拍。除了一些选择在家工作的人以外，我们的办公室全额保持了全部负担。我们信任我们的人民做出最好的决定；我们是关于结果，而不是微管理。”

麦克纳布说，尽管承包商不防备，但我们毫发无损地遇到了。”麦克纳布说。“既然灰尘已经解决，那么看到每个人都能通过不断的教练，培训，教育能够完成的工作真是太神奇了。”

美国犹他州锡拉丘兹的美国冷藏设施已获得了2021年ENR区域最佳项目奖。新利18备用网址新利18备用加法增加了大约150,000平方英尺的冷冻空间和24,000平方英尺的冷码头。
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High-Profile Work

“The interesting thing about the pandemic is that while our initial concern was how to keep people safe and still working, no one [predicted] the aftershocks of supply chain issues and labor shortages we’re seeing now,” says Trevor Hunsaker, who leads the firm’s Utah County office.

“在整个行业中，没有人没有受到任何打击。实际上，今天的后果可能比大流行中的后果更粗糙。我们可以控制确保人们的安全，但我们无法控制材料的交通时间。”他说。

Ninety percent of Big-D’s projects are repeat relationships, and McNabb says the firm’s approach to growth is “to not lose any existing customers and to pick up a few new ones each year.”

The contractor was a joint-venture partner with Holder Construction in the recently completed Salt Lake City International Airport Redevelopment. Other recent notable projects include the Lodge at Blue Sky in Park City and the Park Avenue Development in Salt Lake City.

Big-D is also involved in several large multifamily projects around the state, including the $149-million Post House Apartments, the residential component of the high-profile Post District, a 13-acre site spanning one-and-a-half city blocks in downtown Salt Lake City.

“Multifamily projects in Utah had always been 140-160 units with a little parking, but now we’re seeing these very sophisticated and complex projects,” says Rich Hazel, Big-D’s Salt Lake regional president.

In addition to the Lodge at Blue Sky, Big-D’s mountain resorts group also recently completed the $65-million Kings Crown luxury ski-in, ski-out development in Park City and the residences at the Tower Club at Empire Pass, Park City, a $45-milllion, four-story condo project.

“在过去的十年中，帕克城爆炸了，”榛树说。“虽然以前有点安静，但我们现在正在建立世界一流的高级设施，规模和复杂性。我们是一个非常复杂的建筑商，迈克[Kerby]在正确的时间在正确的位置交付。今天的一份小工作是5000万美元；它不再安静。”

386,000平方英尺的蓝天旅馆豪华度假胜地位于帕克城的一个占地35英亩的私人牧场上。该度假胜地位于山的侧面，并结合了调色板和材料，以补充该地区的环境和历史悠久的遗产。
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团队培训

Hazel说，尽管用于登陆项目的模型需要使建筑所有者采购工作，握手，然后将团队之间的工作新利18备用网址分开，但今天的决定是根据项目所有者与项目团队的舒适度做出的。

“客户不再想见老板；他们想与团队结识并与该团队进行重复工作。”“这些项目新利18备用网址更加复杂，业主也是如此。今天的一切都具有更高的水平。”

结果，Hazel说他花了很多时间招募和培训团队。“如果我们拥有合适的团队，合适的人和文化是设定的，那么工作就来了。这是我们任何人在职业生涯中曾经有过的截然不同的商业模式。”

“We work as a team and back each other up,” Kerby adds. “It doesn’t make sense for one project team to succeed and another to fail. This [culture of teamwork] creates a unique bond, and employees of Big-D feel they’re part of something different.”

Big-D还通过一系列名为Big-D University的课程培训自己的劳动力，其中包括为所有新员工教授工作基本技能的三天课程。

此外，Big-D添加了学徒课程，该课程于2020年初获得了NCCER的认可。它包括计划阅读，垂直和水平形式，扁平工作等课程。该课程是课堂教学，在线学习与书面作业和实践课程的混合在一起。

在使用前沿技术方面，Big-D建筑也一直处于行业的最前沿。该公司的内部虚拟设计和建筑部门涉及整个项目的整个生命周期，这项技术帮助该公司在过去几年中使用VDC和BIM完成了170多个项目。新利18备用网址

“They are fantastic working as a team with us to solve problems, and we really appreciate each other and how we operate,” says George Arnold, a partner at Hamilton Partners. Big-D recently constructed two large industrial projects for Hamilton: the I-215 Commerce Center in Salt Lake City and Lake Park Commerce Center in the West Valley.

Big-D led work on the National Ability Center’s Equestrian Center expansion in Park City.
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早期的流行,每个人都scrambling to develop safety protocols and address the unknowns, an earthquake hit five miles from the Lake Park Commerce Center. “Nothing fell, but we had a lot of heartburn over the status of the panels and the integrity of the structure,” Arnold says. “It was scary, and Big-D solved a lot of problems to ensure the integrity of the building and was able to keep the job going. We worked through these issues together, remotely. We trust them implicitly that the decisions they make are for the good of the greater project.”

“We have enough processes and systems that we try not to make any mistake twice,” Hazel says. “We try to be an evolving organization, and we’re very much a corporate business now where cash flow, finance and contracts have taken us to another level. We’re no longer ‘get some work, get some guys, get this done.’”

麦克纳布说：“前进，我们只是每天都要锐化锯，并在我们的工作上变得更好。”“而且我们将继续与客户保持诚实和透明。”