The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) recently released its list of 2025 Top Performers, which recognizes its contractor members’ outstanding achievements in safety, quality, inclusion, project excellence and special designations ranked by number of hours worked. The No. 1 2025 ABC Top Performer by work hours is Turner Industries Group LLC, Baton Rouge, LA; followed by BL Harbert International, Birmingham, AL; Brown & Root Industrial Services, Baton Rouge; Performance Contractors, Baton Rouge; and MMR Constructors Inc., Baton Rouge. Click below to see the full list of top-performing contractors.
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Location: Carrollton, GA
Products: Reynobond (MCM); Trespa (HPL)
General Contractor: RaLin Construction
Architect: CDH Architecture
A joint venture between Tanner Health System and Carrollton Orthopedic Clinic, the West Georgia Surgery Center is an outpatient surgery center specializing in orthopedic surgery. The new, 22,000-square-foot center has four operating rooms, two procedure rooms and 16 pre-post rooms. Located across from the Tanner Health Pavilion, there is a pedestrian sidewalk connecting the two facilities. For this project, MillerClapperton fabricated and installed 7,500 square feet of Metal Composite Material panels and 1,900 square feet of High-Pressure Laminate (HPL) panels.
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Construction workers are used to encountering loud noises during a shift. And exposure to loud noises can result in permanent hearing damage, including ringing in the ears and partial hearing loss. While hearing damage can limit a worker’s ability and reduce their overall quality of life, reducing sound pollution can help protect everyone’s hearing in the field. In this article on Construction Business Owner, Rick Pedley, president and CEO of PK Safety, discusses the noise risks for construction workers, and what employers can do to provide proper hearing protection.
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While most architects design homes for other people, it is their own homes that can provide insight into their design process, priorities and philosophy. An architect’s personal residence can offer a peak into their mind and how they translate their ideas into lives spaces without having a client to work for. Often seen as experiments and testing grounds for their own design principles, architects’ residences can push the boundaries of architectural expression. Click below to see six residential projects designed by internationally recognized architects as their own private homes.
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Recommendation: I Would Prefer Not To, a podcast hosted by Ana Miljacki
Interview by: Jack Murphy, The Architect’s Newspaper
Hosted by Ana Miljacki, a critic, curator and professor of architecture at MIT, the I Would Prefer Not To podcast begins with the question, Why do architects turn down commissions? Now in its fourth season, Jack Murphy of The Architect’s Newspaper spoke with Miljacki about the podcast, how it connects to her wider scholastic interests, the intersections of architecture and media, and more.
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