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Tracy Hart, President -- This time of year brings reflection, gratitude and hope for the future of our company, industry and country.

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Scott Green, LEED AP, Manager of Construction Technology -- Unused employee creativity is one of the eight wastes commonly encountered on a project. We’re glad to see our team at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Locks 27 project isn't falling victim.

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Matt Willingham, CSP, Corporate Safety Director -- Ever heard of the belt buckle rule? You should know it before climbing a ladder. 

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Bryce Cooper, Marketing Manager -- If you want to see how versatile concrete can be, a visit to the Saint Louis Art Museum project paints the picture.

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Laura Lusson, Communications Manager -- A friend’s husband is a general contractor, and she laments that the work at their house is always the last to get done. Those aren’t the paying jobs. I was thinking about this on larger, corporate scale and how it applies – or more correctly, does not – at Tarlton.

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Bryce Cooper, Marketing Manager -- Construction is art and science both, reinforced by a recent visit to the Saint Louis Art Museum expansion jobsite.

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Dirk Elsperman, COO -- Picking up where I left off, construction, like a triathlon (or any other race) is a COMPETITION. But let’s take it a little further.

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Stacey Madsen, Project Assistant -- The old saying “say what you mean, mean what you say” may seem simplistic, but it holds much truth in construction.  

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George Fujii, LEED AP, Senior Project Manager -- We had a nice visit from the RCGA Green Challenge participants touring Tarlton’s headquarters, a LEED Silver building we completed in 2004.

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Dirk Elsperman, Chief Operating Officer -- A couple of years ago, I started developing analogies between triathlons and construction. Believe me, you have a lot of time to think while swimming back and forth in the same pool for hours on end.

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