Thinking About Street Lights, Freeway Signs and Electricity So You Never Have To By Mark Kandborg
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magine you’re gliding along one of Calgary’s freeways late at night. What are some things you’d have a hard time living without? Street lights and road signs would definitely make the list. What about at home? Electricity, certainly. Yet street lights, road signs and electricity are probably things you rarely think about, if ever. Why is that? Because JATEC thinks about them for you, then gets the job done. Now that you are thinking about lights, road signs and electricity, here are some numbers for you to consider. When JATEC recently completed work on a the third leg of the Southeast Stoney Trail, they had moved over half a million kilograms of steel, poured over 1,000 square metres of concrete, drilled 81 piles nearly 700 metres into the earth, erected 73 structures and well over 2500 square metres of signage. After racking up 38,584 man hours, the whole incredible undertaking came in on time and on budget.
The completion of huge projects on time with no time lost to injury or property damage is more than just impressive. It’s JATEC’s signature and a testimony to the company’s commitment to safety in all aspects of the job. “Safety is a huge concern for us,” says JATEC owner Jim Allen, “so we put a lot of our energy into training and teaching to ensure it. The way we see it, safety equals efficiency.” As with all equations, this one works equally well in either direction. Not only does working safely make you more efficient, working ef efficiently keeps you safer. Over the years, the name JATEC has become synonymous with efficiency. One very important key to JATEC’s achieving such a high level of efficiency on these big projects has been their ever-increasing ability to ‘self perform’. “It can be difficult to get sub-contractors with the right equipment to the job site when you want them,” Allen explains. They might need pile trucks or big cranes
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