Punch List: Firms shake-up C-suites, Fluor nabs 2 energy jobs

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Development Dive’s Friday Punch Record is a sequence devoted to sharing main constructing headlines that contractors could have missed from the week.

It was one other large week for building headlines. President Donald Trump adjusted tariffs on major building materials, and contech agency Trimble signed an settlement to acquire Document Crunch, an AI startup for scanning contracts.

Learn on for extra building information from this week that builders ought to learn about.

Fluor wins 2 early section initiatives

Fluor introduced two contract awards this week, each wins on early-stage engineering work for main power initiatives in Texas.

In Brownsville, Fluor will carry out front-end engineering and design for a large-scale refinery developed by America First Refining. The mission, billed as the primary new U.S. refinery in additional than 50 years, will finally course of over 60 million barrels of home crude yearly.

Individually, the Irving, Texas-based contractor additionally secured a contract with X-energy for a proposed small modular reactor project in south Texas. The work focuses on mission definition, strategic planning, feasibility evaluation, price management and threat mitigation, based on the discharge.

Fluor will acknowledge the undisclosed contract values for each initiatives within the first quarter of 2026.

—Sebastian Obando

Main companies make govt strikes

A number of contractors made adjustments on the govt stage this week.

Sweden-based builder and developer Skanska elevated John Calvin to vice chairman and account supervisor for its constructing operations within the Mid-Atlantic area, the agency introduced Tuesday in a launch shared with Development Dive. Calvin has spent practically 25 years with the agency, first in Skanska’s Winston-Salem, North Carolina workplace.

Going ahead, Calvin will oversee mission execution and supply in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. In previous roles at Skanska, which included time in Roanoke and Charlottesville, Virginia, Calvin developed partnerships with shoppers corresponding to Virgnita Tech, the College of Virginia and The School of William and Mary.

—Zachary Phillips

As well as, BL Firms, an employee-owned, multidisciplinary structure, engineering, environmental and land surveying agency, has employed Shannon Cavallo as its new CFO.

Cavallo joins the Meriden, Connecticut-based agency, and enters the development trade, after serving as CFO at Goodwill of Western and Northern Connecticut, per the announcement. Cavallo will lead BL Firms’ efforts to remodel monetary and operational information into insights that help progress.

Alongside her CFO duties, Cavallo additionally teaches at Submit College in Middlebury, Connecticut, as an adjunct professor in enterprise intelligence and information analytics.

—Matthew Thibault

Turner Development has a brand new chief info officer on the job. Daybreak Paquette, former CIO at GE Aerospace, has taken on the function on the New York Metropolis-based contractor.

As CIO, Paquette will lead Turner’s enterprise technology strategy, strengthen digital infrastructure and companion with operations and enterprise leaders to ship know-how options that drive efficiency throughout the corporate, based on a LinkedIn publish from Lisa Ballantyne, Turner’s chief administrative officer.

Previous to GE Aerospace, Paquette held know-how roles at Elevance Well being, previously generally known as Anthem.

She recently told Fortune she was energized to tackle the function on the trade’s largest contractor by income.

“What drew me to Turner was the chance to function on the intersection of individuals, initiatives and know-how in a method that immediately impacts how work will get achieved,” she informed the publication.

—Joe Bousquin

OSHA Nationwide Emphasis Program expires

On Wednesday, an OSHA Heat National Emphasis Program expired, precisely 4 years after it was launched.

The NEP’s expiration, nevertheless, doesn’t imply employers can or ought to take a lax view of warmth security, stated Phillip Russell, a Tampa, Florida-based OSHA lawyer with legislation agency Ogletree Deakins.

“I feel essentially the most sensible take away for employers is that it’s best to nonetheless be centered on warmth as a doable office hazard,” Russell informed Development Dive.

The Biden-era program sought to boost consciousness of and dramatically improve OSHA’s concentrate on heat-related hazards within the office, notably in industries like building. The NEP licensed proactive OSHA inspections when the warmth index reached 80 levels Fahrenheit or when the Nationwide Climate Service issued a warmth warning or advisory.

A January 2025 discover extending the NEP from its preliminary expiration confirmed it had carried out about 7,000 heat-related inspections and issued 60 heat citations for violations of the Normal Obligation Clause, the usual used for citations when no particular rule applies. That quantity was a lot increased in comparison with the years previous to the NEP.

Contractors who proceed to be vigilant can nonetheless profit, stated Russell.

“Employers who do one thing, not nothing, will assist staff keep secure and wholesome and keep away from OSHA inspections and citations,” he stated.

—Zachary Phillips

Balfour Beatty US to maneuver places of work

The U.S. arm of London-based infrastructure big Balfour Beatty is making a transfer from one Dallas workplace to a different.

The contractor is transferring out of its workplace at 3100 McKinnon St. and can ultimately transfer into a brand new location at One Victory Park, a 17-story workplace tower simply off of Interstate 35, the corporate confirmed to Development Dive, although it didn’t share precise timing for the shift.

The transfer represents a direct funding within the firm’s staff and North Texas, Pleas Mitchell, president of Balfour Beatty’s Texas and Arizona operations, informed Development Dive.

“With the help of CBRE, we recognized an area that strengthens collaboration throughout our groups, helps how we appeal to and retain prime expertise, and positions us to develop alongside one of many nation’s most dynamic markets — all whereas persevering with to ship distinctive worth for our shoppers and companions,” Mitchell stated.

—Matthew Thibault

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