Skanska program helps level the playing fields.Skanska USA Building Inc. announced that it has graduated 46 minority contractors in the first Skanska USA Building Construction Management program in conjunction with New York's Medgar Evers College Medgar Evers College (MEC) is a college campus (offering bachelor's and associate's degrees) of The City University of New York. MEC was founded in 1970 through cooperation from educators and community leaders in central Brooklyn. and the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State Chapter of the National Association of Minority Contractors, Inc. (NYSAM). The program involved small minority business owners and employees attending an eight-week, 12-class program taught by several Skanska instructors--Alton Lewis, Marty Bruno, Carrie Key, Steve Bitterman, Angela Moulton, Dana Jones and Dan Shay--and some outside professionals. Topics taught were marketing your business, estimating, project startup and closeout closeout, closure the finalization of a feeding program in a feedlot. The cattle are sold and a balance sheet is struck which includes the costs of feeding and housing or confining them. , scheduling, accounting, legal, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , safety, bonding and more. "NYSAMC is honored hon·or n. 1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate. 2. a. Good name; reputation. b. to partner with Skanska in its Construction Management Program Construction Building Blocks for minority contractors. We hope that some of those qualified minority contractors will be given the opportunity to become mainstream contractors and work with Skanska and other prime contractors. We also are looking forward to a stronger relationship with Skanska," stated NYSAMC President Elenora Bernard. Skanska received a nice recognition at the event from politicians, government agency representatives, the NYSAM administration, the college and the students. The program was coordinated by Alton Lewis, Vice President, in conjunction with the Skanska diversity committee in New York. "Skanska believes in a level playing field See net neutrality. for all our contractors and by establishing our Construction Management Building Blocks training program for minority contractors, we believe we will help these minority contractors not only to build and grow their businesses but to also help them to become more competitive within the construction industry," said Alton Lewis. |
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