7/3/24

Announcements

🎆INDEPENDENCE DAY

We hope you enjoy the festivities, relaxation, fireworks, food, and time with loved ones tomorrow as we all celebrate the foundation of our nation's freedom. Here's to "the land of the free and the home of the brave!"

Reminder: July 4th is a work holiday. Please remember to mark your Traqspera timesheet accordingly.

Core Values

SAFETY & WELL-BEING

JULY - Heat Safety Awareness Month

Stay hydrated and keep cool!

Refer to this OSHA Heat Related Quick Card to refresh your memory on the signs and symptoms of heat related illnesses, how to prevent them, and how to treat them.

SAFETY & WELL-BEING

WellWorks Program

It's time to start planning for your Blum Medical Premium Discount! Through Wellworks For You, Blum provides an Insurance Discount Incentive that requires participants to complete four steps. The deadline to complete the steps is October 18th, 2024.

To explain the program, walk-through instructions, and answer questions, HR will be hosting a virtual meeting on July 11th. Contact a member of the HR team if you did not receive a calendar invite to attend.

If you attended the meeting on June 27th, you do not need to attend again.

CONTINOUS IMPROVEMENT & DEVELOPMENT

Stylus - Blum's Resident Selection Tool

The Marketing and Business Development teams have been working together over the last several months to rebrand Blum's Resident Selection software and develop better ways to promote it. One of the results of this work is the new "Stylus" promotional video which explains what the tool is and how it serves senior living communities.

Frank Factors

SWEAT THE DETAILS

Do your research. Dig deep to understand the who, why, what, and how of everything we do. Details often make or break accomplishments. Remember that our clients hire us to solve problems, and problem-solving involves research.

SENSE OF URGENCY

Respond with a sense of urgency. People correlate caring to the timeliness of the response. Don't prioritize the importance of something without responding.

IMPLEMENTING THE FRANK FACTORS

Johnny Branch and University Towers

Have you ever encountered a building with the fire suppression and HVAC hydronic piping systems looped together? Nope. In 1988, that’s exactly how the University Towers building at NC State was constructed. The university acquired the building in May of this year, and no one completely understood the system.

Senior Superintendent Johnny Branch committed to sweating the details to learn the system as best he could. One afternoon, he noticed that while the rooftop units were off, the hydronic system had no way to dissipate the heat. The piping was scalding to the touch. Fearing that the piping temperature would fast approach 150°F and cause the sprinkler heads around the building to burst and discharge, Johnny responded urgently and shut down the system.

Johnny’s commitment to sweating the details and responding with a sense of urgency likely saved the building from a massive flood. Way to go Johnny!

New Hires

June 2024

Billy Nie

Masonry Summer Laborer (Triad)

Danielle Turner

HR Assistant (Triad)

Gonzalo Chavez

Field Engineer (Triad)

Walter Laws

Summer Laborer (Triad)

Diego Sanchez

Summer Laborer (Triad)

Employee Work Anniversaries ?

July 2024

Tony Hall 41 years

Eddie Rippey 15 years

Austin Harrison 12 years

Jimmy Bunker 8 years

Carlos Cortes Castellanos 8 years

Daniel Broussard 6 years

Lloyd Bass 3 years

Richard Segers 3 years

Elias Baltazar 2 years

Noah Edwards 2 years

Austin Evans 2 years

Caitlyn Talley 1 year

Antonio Alvarez-Chavez 1 year

Luis Antunez-Garcia 1 year

Jackson Chastain 1 year

Kenny Golemon 1 year

Nate Pankow 1 year

Marco Blancas 1 year

John Stephens 1 year

Employee Recognitions

SHOUT OUT to the Thomasville MRI Medical Center Project Team!

An impressive temporary entrance, complete with Blum branded windscreen and American flag, stands proudly at the Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center MRI Replacement project.

Superintendent, Jack Hartley says, "The scaffolding is our job site entrance, which is through an exterior window opening we had to take out to remove the MRI machine from the building, and where the new MRI machine will go into in the building in July." This temporary entrance makes it possible for the team to move in and out of the building freely, without having to go through the hospital. What a brilliant use of materials and skills to make a jobsite more efficient and effective, and to represent the Blum name.

Shout out to the Thomasville Medical Center project team for their resourcefulness, and planning and execution skills!

Classroom Day at Stevens Center

On June 27th, the Summer Interns participated in a Classroom Day at the UNCSA Stevens Center in downtown Winston-Salem, where Blum team members taught them about their roles and responsibilities for the project, and what goes on in their respective departments.

Jack McKnight, who is currently an intern on the Stevens Center project, hosted the group along with Superintendent Josh Brundige. In addition to learning about the project's life cycle, the interns were treated to a tour of the historic space.

Kudos to the team for their enthusiasm, and for sharing the passion they have for their roles at Blum Construction and the Stevens Center project!