June 29th, 2009 | Doug Bowen | Corporate Culture
Dear Team,
For the third consecutive year, Bowen Engineering has been named one of the top 25 Best Places to Work in America (Medium-Sized Category) by the Great Place to Work® Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
The award is based on a number of criteria, and a key component of these is a random, anonymous survey conducted by the Best Places organization. The survey collects information from 200 randomly-selected Bowen employees. The survey asks a number of questions about Bowen’s culture, day-to-day relevance of our core values, and the trust level between employees and supervisors.
Competition for this award was greater than ever this year, with a significant number of companies competing for the first time. To be named top 25 for three years running is proof that YOU bring our core values to life every day at Bowen Engineering.
YOU are the reason that Bowen Engineering is such a great place to work. Congratulations on this win!
Doug
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June 29th, 2009 | Jon Burns | Project Updates, Zero Injury
The AEP Mountaineer CO2 Capture Project, with technology by Alstom Power, is designed to remove carbon dioxide from flue gas that is emitted from the coal fired power plant. Bowen Engineering has completed the site preparation, grading and drainage culverts, underground piping and concrete foundations. The team is currently self performing the mechanical piping (20,000 lf), insulation (sub) and heat trace (sub) with a Bowen staff of approximately 80 people working two shifts 6 days a week.
The project, which began in July of 2008, will be substantially complete at the end of August 2009 and online in October 2009. Upon completion, we will have utilized approximately 100,000 Bowen personnel hours to support this project. I am excited to report that on July 13th, 2009 we will be celebrating a full year of construction without a recordable injury. Read more
June 9th, 2009 | Kristi Keeker | Our Community
Bowen’s SQP (Safe-Quality-Production) training sessions include exercises to emphasize how SQP can be incorporated in all types of activities, both business and personal. Bowen Senior Vice President and Division Manager Jeff Purdue recently attended a Construction Industry Institute course in which the group participated in a bicycle building competition. The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate how proper planning positively affects the process of building a project. The exercise was so successful, that upon learning about it, the Bowen SQP Steering Committee decided to incorporate a similar competition into the spring 2009 SQP training program that was held at Bowen’s corporate headquarters.
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June 5th, 2009 | Tim Barnett | Resources
June 5th, 2009 | Tim Barnett | Zero Injury
“Drivers and car occupants suffer four out of five fatalities in U.S. highway work zones. For some reason, safety experts say, that statistic has more power to get drivers to ease up on the accelerator in work zones than any concern they may have for the lives and safety of construction workers,” Angelle Bergeron reports for ENR.
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June 1st, 2009 | Natasha Matheny | Corporate Culture, Zero Injury
Bowen recently held SQP (Safe – Quality – Production) training at our headquarters and the Meadow Lake Wind Farm project site in Indiana. SQP, formerly known as Production Management, acquired its new name as the need for emphasis on Safety and Quality ties into our Zero Injury Culture.
Between both locations, there were approximately 30 participants who completed this training. Graduates include: Roger Havill, Josh Kellam, Brian Davis, Corey Padgett, John Vowell, Clay Woodruff, Josh Bohanon, Joe Bastin, Alan Dale, Rem Yoder, Howard McClanahan, Rick Meunier, Joe Gallagher, Chris Jenkins (Miller Electric), Kent Cooper (Miller Electric), Ken Miller (Miller Electric), Carl Hickman (Miller Electric), Todd Brown (Miller Electric), Sam Fackrell, Matt Meyer, Chad Ranson, Bill Freese, Chad Bachmann, Greg Houchin, Mark McClellan, JJ Bray, Paul Creasy, Robert Leary, Brian Panzik, John Armstrong, Scott Staggs, Richard Calvert, and Jacqueline Cardwell.
