Starcon Awards Highlight Success

STARCON

n By Ryne Elfstrom

ABC National Safety Excellence Pinnacle Award and Excellence in Construction Eagle Award

On April 6, 2020 Starcon received the ABC National Safety Excellence Pinnacle Award for our overall safety performance. The Pinnacle Award is the highest honor given by ABC and reflects exceptional long-term safety performance and processes. Congratulations to our team and thank you for your uncompromising commitment to safety excellence!

That same day, Starcon was also named winner of the ABC National Excellence in Construction Eagle Award for our Maintenance & Turnaround Program at the Marathon Canton Refinery. The Eagle Award is the highest award given and honors the nation’s most innovative and high-quality construction projects and safety programs.

The award was earned for the routine maintenance work as well as the two turnarounds completed at the site. Routine maintenance included repair activities on heat exchangers, towers, drums, and extensive pipe work throughout the refinery. Starcon also provided civil services, HVAC, and plumbing work for the plant. This work encompassed 125,606 work hours all performed with zero recordable injuries.

The turnaround projects included the GHT performed during the month of March and the Major turnaround in July and August. The leadership teams for these projects included

Mike Quintus, Erik Silvey, Scott Hepworth, and Steve Miller. The Starcon Team successfully completed both turnarounds working more than 110,000 work hours with no recordable events.

Left to right: Chris Scott, Brian Walker, Carlos Saldana, David Folmar

Chevron Phillips Chemical’s President’s Award

On August 28, 2020 Chevron Phillips Chemical hosted their annual Contractor Safety Forum to recognize exceptional safety performance at their process sites across the United States. At this virtual event, CPChem President & CEO Mark Lashier named Starcon winner of the annual President’s Safety Award for our performance at the Cedar Bayou site in Baytown, Texas.

The President’s Award is the highest honor given at this ceremony and represents the best-of-the-best contractors across the CPChem system. Starcon’s safety performance beat out 77 eligible contractors in this category.

During the observed program year, Starcon completed nearly 275,000 work hours with zero recordable injuries. Congratulations to our entire Cedar Bayou project team for this outstanding accomplishment!

ABC Excellence in Construction Awards for Greater Houston and Illinois Chapters

This fall Starcon was the proud recipient of two excellence in construction awards for the Greater Houston Chapter and Illinois Chapter.

For the Greater Houston Chapter, Starcon was recognized for our performance on the Dow Chemical / Wood Group Mosaic Project in Clute, Texas. This project was one of the first scheduled expansions to support Dow Chemical’s efforts to double their worldwide ethylene production capacity. Major scope of work for this expansion included the installation of three ethylene dryers, one CO2 absorber and the installation of over 10,300 linear feet of pipe averaging 6 inches in diameter. Starcon’s project team managed to complete the project on-time, on-budget and injury free over 139,398 exposure hours. Additionally, this project met all of Starcon’s QA/QC benchmarks and complete client satisfaction.

For the Illinois Chapter, Starcon was recognized for our annual Maintenance & Turnaround performance at the BP Whiting, Indiana Refinery. The BP Maintenance and

Aerial views of Mosaic Project

Turnaround Program was comprised of five major activities: routine maintenance, spring & fall turnarounds, insulation support and the Loss of Primary Containment (LOPC) Program. All projects were completed on-time, on budget and injury free over 191,548 exposure hours.

Each of these projects are now eligible to compete in the ABC National Excellence in Construction Competition in 2021.