Taking West Michigan to new heights involves many hands at work, including local contractors. The Gerald R. Ford International Airport is proud to collaborate and build deep-rooted connections with the community. We've interviewed several of these local businesses to hear their fun facts, statistics, and favorite parts of working at the Airport. A special thanks to Turner Construction Company.
The capital expansion program, Elevate, includes an expanded concourse, a new control tower, more parking, enhanced rental car capabilities and improved baggage inspection technology. To learn more about our partners and the economic impact, visit https://flyford.org/elevate/community/.
Turner is a North American-based, international construction services company and a leading builder in diverse market segments. The company has earned recognition for undertaking large and complex projects, fostering innovation, embracing emerging technologies, and making a difference for its clients, employees, and community. With over 11,000 employees, the company completes $17 billion of construction on 1,500 projects each year. Turner offers clients the accessibility and support of a local firm with the stability and resources of a multi-national organization.
Turner, headquartered in New York, has maintained a local office in Michigan for the past 50 years.
Turner has over 12,000 employees.
Turner is providing Construction Management Services, including Project Managers, Superintendents, Engineers and Safety Director to the ConRAC project.
Turner has an advanced, robust safety culture that has been implemented for the project. As a company it is both exciting and rewarding to see these innovative practices embraced and implemented as company policy by the Trade Partners.
Lean principles have also been a strong focus of the project Team and accepted, embraced by the Trade Partners. Pre-planning, continuous improvement and look-ahead planning has been greatly beneficial to the project by flushing out constraints and mitigating negative impacts to the project.
The ConRAC project has been an exciting and in some aspects a challenging project. Through a strong commitment from the Airport, Coalition Companies, Fishbeck and the Trade Partners the Team has worked extremely well together with a focus on Building Excellence. The Team has been able to build a strong culture with a focus on continuous improvement in safety, quality and enhancing worker experience.
Turner has successfully completed over 1200 aviation projects at every major airport in the continental United States and manages more than 30 aviation projects annually.