Turner Construction

Its stage is 30% wider and deeper, giving school performers and productions more room to work with.

Dan Owens, project manager for Turner Construction, one of the companies contracted to build this, explained that the whole building that makes up the auditorium is completely new, having cut out three sides of the old building and getting down to the bedrock underneath it.

The landing for its new balcony is where its old exterior wall was located.

That was part of the vision, to be able to fit the whole student body in one space, said Owens about the auditorium's capacity.

Whitaker said, We are incredibly grateful to our maintenance and facility teams for the long hours they put in to ensure our buildings were clean, welcoming and ready for students.

We also thank our partners at Turner Construction and Young & Wright Architectural for working closely with the district to complete as much work as possible before the start of school and minimize disruptions to our students and staff.

Kate Benson, Bush Elementary School's principal, also echoed Whitaker's excitement for the beginning of a new school year.

We loved welcoming back our Twisters to Bush School on Wednesday, Benson said.

This is a great example of this.

Turner Construction helped us launch the construction training program.

And they actually had their head of safety come down and teach, I think it was 10 hours of safety for the class, and he brought with him the real life practical knowledge of what it looks like to be on a job site.

He helped people achieve their OSHA 10, get through safety with the NCCR core, and he built relationships with them through that, that they could ask him real questions.

And by the way, I just want to mention my own personal connection to SunTracks.

This one's kind of abstract and a little funny, but it's a joint venture between Prince Contracting and Turner Construction.

Turner was founded by one of the alums from my college.

So, Swarthmore College, an alum founded Turner Construction.

Now, we were separated a few years in terms of when we graduated.

He graduated in 1893.

Exactly.

Yes, we were much more fun.

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Last Tuesday, Turner Construction, the largest US contractor, told 6,098 people that their personal data had been taken.

Social security numbers, salaries, dates of birth, the bank details used to pay them, and for some, even their passport numbers.

And that's the part that you see, and that's the part that gets reported.

I was everywhere.

I was with the city, with the county, doing trainings from Turner Construction, Carolinas AGC, the Women Business Center, Prospera, the Hispanic Contractors Association of the Carolinas, and many others.

So I was focused and safety, so OSHA.

So I

By May of 2026, land disturbance permits or filings were in the state.

Turner Construction on the White Oak site, they started land clearing.

That's estimated through 2027.

You know, dirt was going to move whether the argument on Facebook was finished or not.

They did a video this past year that was introduced during national conference, Construction Safety Week, it was four tradespeople that were talking, all from New York City.

It was paid for by the Turner Foundation, which is part of Turner Construction.

Very well done.

Four people admitting their vulnerability.