With GM's, GC’s and owners overwhelmed, many are grasping for air and some relief.
Our staff has many safety and technology certifications including ladder and asbestos safety which is most closely related to our current COVID-19 situation. We have been in masks and gloves since February 9, 2021, adapting what had been the European separation standard of at least 10’. While we work closely with each other and your staff, we wont work too close and will enforce masks and social distancing to a fault, even placing hand wash and COVID-19 work area signs in places we will need to work with your staff. And we will leave an area that is not following social distance and mask standards, reporting to management and ownership. We will not tolerate endangerment to staff, yours or ours; this will only cause you another 3 week delay if someone gets COVID-19.
When contracted, as a component to assisting you in the most expeditious manner, we request designation as “The Owners Advocate,” per IHG contracting rules and “Safety Officer.” This allows us to work on your behalf to engage with Oracle, IHG, DSR, Assa Abloy, Kaaba, Mitel, HP, Digital Hands and your other vendors and sub-contractors.
We keep you up to date as to status changes, issues discovered/resolved and any date changes. We will push dates UP, rather than let them drag or be delayed.
We mention this as there is always resistance from building trades, many of which think they are immune because they work outside. Our staff have survived Europe and four construction sites in the past 120 days where there were 6 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Since we kept our distance and wear masks, we were not considered exposed. Our staff also take a daily temperature reading and report in with such.