Safety Awards

Willis Tower Watson Construction Safety Excellence Awards

The Willis Tower Watson Construction Safety Excellence Awards (CSEA) recognized those construction companies who excel at safety and health performance. This program closely examines each candidate’s commitment to safety and occupational health management and risk control. The program showcases companies that have achieved continuous improvements and maintenance of their safety and health management systems. The selection process is comprehensive and includes: the review of a company’s commitment to management, active employee participation, safety training, work site hazard identification and control, and safety program innovation. The 2024 initial judging took place January 8^th – 9^th and finals judging took place March 18^th through the 21^st with the Awards Breakfast on March 22^nd  at the National AGC Conference held in San Diego, CA. AGC/C would like to congratulate the four companies that made it through initial judging and represented our chapter in the finals.

• 1^st Place  - Building Division: Over 2.5 million work hours: Hensel Phelps
• 1^st Place  - Building Division: 500,000 – 1 million work hours: JHL Constructors
• 3^rd Place - Building Division: Under 200,000 work hours: Alliance Construction Solutions 
• 3^rd Place - Building Division: 425,000 – 1 million work hours: Industrial Constructors / Managers, Inc. (ICM)

The Construction Health and Safety Excellence (CHASE) awards recognize firms at the Red, White and Blue levels based on the culture derived from their safety and health programs, maturity of training plans, employee engagement and continuous improvement techniques.

The following firms honored at the Red level in 2023:

• Concepts in Millwork
• Howell Construction
• Waner Construction

The following firms were honored at the white level in 2023:

• ADK Electric
• Adolfson & Peterson Construction
• Baker Concrete Construction
• Brinkmann Constructors
• Bryan Construction
• Carlton Electric
• ICI
• Industrial Constructors / Managers, Inc.
• MTech Mechanical
• Q3 Contracting
• Saunders Construction

The following firms were honored at the Blue level in 2023:

• Belair Sitework Services
• Brinkman Construction, Inc.
• CFC Construction Inc.
• Concrete Frame Associates, LLC
• Encore Electric
• Fiore & Sons Inc.
• Fransen Pittman General Contractors
• GH Phipps Construction Co.
• Glacier Construction Co. Inc.
• Greiner Electric
• Haselden Construction
• Hyder Construction
• JE Dunn Construction
• JHL Constructors Inc.
• Kenny Electric Service Inc.
• McCarthy Building Cos.
• PCL Construction Services Inc.
• Phase2 Company
• Swinerton Builders
• The Beck Group
• The Weitz Co. LLC

The Colorado Stormwater Excellence Program (CSEP), which is the first regulatory agency-recognized, self-policing stormwater compliance management program in the nation. CSEP ranks companies as either Participating or Qualified, based on performance data.

The list of Participating firm(s) include:

• Recruiting new members

The list of Qualified firms in 2024 included:

• Adolfson & Peterson Construction
• Brinkman Construction Inc.
• Fiore and Sons Inc.
• Fransen Pittman General Contractors
• G. H. Phipps Construction Co.
• Golden Triangle Construction Inc.
• Haselden Construction
• Howell Construction
• Hyder Construction
• JHL Constructors Inc.
• Milender White Construction
• PCL Construction Services Inc.
• Swinerton Builders
• The Beck Group
• Waner Construction Co. Inc.

National AGC Safety Awards (NASA) program, where AGC members can evaluate their safety record as compared to other national AGC members. AGC/C member average incident of days away from work is 0.16 and is consistently below the AGC of America average incident rate, which is 0.27 for all work divisions.

The Building Contractor members recognized for achieving Zero or 25% below division lost workday incidence rate in 2023 included:

Building Division:

• Adolfson & Peterson
• Alcorn Construction
• Brinkman Construction
• Calcon Construction
• Fransen Pittman General Contractors
• GH Phipps Construction Companies
• Hensel Phelps Construction Co.
• Howell Construction
• Hyder Construction Inc.
• JHL Constructors
• Mortenson
• The Beck Group
• Waner Construction Company

The following AGC of Colorado Specialty Contractor members were recognized for achieving Zero or 25% below division lost workday incident rate in 2023:

Specialty Division:

• Carlton Electric
• Concepts in Millwork
• Kenny Electric
• Encore Electric
• Sturgeon Electric
• Weifield Group Contracting, Inc.

The following AGC of Colorado Utility/Infrastructure members were recognized for achieving Zero or 25% below division lost workday incident rate in 2023:

Utility/Infrastructure Division:

• Glacier Construction Company, Inc
• BT Construction, Inc.
• Q3 Contracting