DEW Construction Corp. was honored by Key Bank and Vermont Business Magazine as one of Vermont’s fastest growing companies at an awards ceremony held on Monday, September 17 at the Double Tree Hotel and Conference Center. This year, DEW was recognized as one of the 10 fastest growing Vermont companies over the past 10 years, showing a growth of 358% during that period. In addition to the top 10 ranking, the annual 5x5x5 Awards recognize the five fastest growing Vermont-based businesses over the last five years in five industrial sectors: construction, food, technology, service/retail, and manufacturing. DEW has been the recipient of this award five times since 2004. The data is gathered from Vermont Business Magazine’s Vermont 100 list of companies ranked by sales, which runs in its January issue. VBM has run such a list since 1987.
Awards
DEW Makes ENR’s Top 400 Contractors List.
Great news! DEW Construction Corp. is listed number 325 on ENR’s List of Top 400 Contractors for 2011. The list, which is published yearly by Engineering News Record
DEW Wins Best Builder Award
Congratulations to the Waterbury Fire Stations team! The project was selected by the Associated General Contractors of Vermont to receive a 2011 Best Builders Award for Outstanding Quality of Work and Effort in the Building, New Construction category. Don Wells, President, Jeff Davis, Executive Vice President, Tim Heinlein, Project Manager and Larry Bertrand, Superintendent, received the award at AGC’s annual meeting in Burlington. DEW Construction Corp. was hired in 2010 to provide Design/Build services to the Town of Waterbury to build two new energy-efficient fire stations to replace existing fire stations in the Town and Village of Waterbury, Vermont. The Main Street Station site was selected because it was desirable to have the fire station remain in the Village setting. The site, however, is located in a FEMA flood plain. DEW and Architect Wiemann Lamphere, designed and built a structure that could stand up to the 100 year flood level – and two months after we turned it over, and two weeks after the formal ribbon cutting, it was tested by Tropical Storm Irene. The flooding in Waterbury crested just above the 100 year flood level. Remarkably the station fared well – it suffered only a relatively small amount of water damage. The good news – no materials had to be removed or replaced. All in all, a success for flood design and construction.
DEW Wins AGC-VT Best Builder Award
BURLINGTON, VT, DECEMBER 7, 2010: D.E.W. Construction Corp. (DEW) was among five companies awarded an Associated General Contractors of Vermont (AGC-VT) Best Builders Award for Outstanding Quality of Work and Effort at the AGC-VT Annual Meeting held at the Sheraton Hotel on December 7, 2010. DEW received recognition under the New Construction category for using Innovative Construction Technologies on the Tram Haus Lodge project at Jay Peak Resort in Jay, VT. The Tram Haus Lodge is a five-story, 57-suite hotel that offers a mix of studio, 1 and 2 bedroom units along with a bar and restaurant with seating for up to 180, a fitness studio and spa, coffee shop and bakery, a small retail store and a rental and repair shop. The project also includes an underground heated parking garage for hotel guests. The DEW team for the Tram Haus project included Jerry Davis, Senior Project Manager; Willis Whitaker, Superintendent; Dave Lothian, Assistant Superintendent; Karl Bahrenburg, Project Engineer; Andrew Rouille, Project Engineer; Chris Bertrand, Field Engineer and Sonya Samalis, Project Administrator. The Architect for the Project was Gardner Kilcoyne Architects out of Burlington, VT.
2009 Safety Award Winners
It’s official! The DEW SHARP Committee awarded the 2009 Safety Awards late in December. The winners are as follows: 2009 Safety Employee of the Year – Rick Davis Rick is completing his 4th year as a carpenter and his 1st year as a SHARP Committee member. Last year he was a runner-up. He has distinguished himself with his unrelenting pursuit of safety perfection on our jobsites. Not only does he observe and correct problems, but he spends time explaining the consequences of unsafe activity and how to correct it. Rick is a first rate safety advocate and a tremendous asset to our program. 2009 Safety Superintendent of the Year – Dave Stone No, this is not a misprint. Dave prevailed in a very close vote to repeat as our Safety Superintendent of the Year. That’s quite an honor and a huge measure of respect that fellow employees have for him. Dave has been with DEW for 7 1/2 years and is currently completing work at the Congregational Church in Burlington. 2009 Safety Merit Award – Bob Rose The Safety Merit Award was designed to recognize people and organizations that do not fit in our regular award categories. This year, Bob Rose, a superintendent with Pike Company, assigned to the Jeffords Hall project at UVM is our winner. Bob was nominated by four DEW employees who are working with him at […]
