Electrical Connection Member Projects Vie for AGC Keystone Awards

This year’s Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Missouri Keystone Awards features four Electrical Connection member projects competing for top honors in construction excellence. The projects include three by Guarantee Electrical Co. and one by PayneCrest Electric, Inc. Both electrical contractors are members of the St. Louis Chapter of the National Electrical Contractor Association (NECA), which partners with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1 to form the Electrical Connection.

Clockwise from upper left: City Foundry STL by PayneCrest; Powering the COVID Response Effort by Guarantee Electrical Co.; MEMC Global Wafers SOI Building Expansion Project by Guarantee Electrical; and SSM Health Saint Louis University Replacement Hospital by Guarantee Electrical Co.

Guarantee projects vying for the AGC Keystone Awards include:

MEMC Global Wafers SOI Building Expansion Project. In January 2019 Guarantee Electrical Co. was engaged to provide electrical construction services in support of MEMC Global’s addition to its existing clean-room SOI production building, joining a team consisting of L. Keeley Construction Co. and Bilfinger Industrial Services. The assignment is a continuation of over a decade in which Guarantee provides electrical and communications support services to MEMC’s Level 1 Cleanroom facilities and manufacturing processes, especially with respect to providing reliable electrical power and high-speed data communications.
SSM Health Saint Louis University Replacement Hospital. Guarantee Electrical Co. was engaged to join the team led by Alberici Corp. in the construction of St. Louis University’s new 11-story, 600,000-square-foot replacement hospital. Guarantee’s role as the electrical and communications systems contractor was to assure that the university hospital and its medical campus infrastructure are fully supplied with the power and communications systems to continue their two-century-old mission of meeting the St. Louis community’s healthcare and medical educational requirements.
Powering the COVID Response Effort. During the last week of March 2020, Guarantee Electrical Co. joined general contractor Tarlton Corp.and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build out the first alternative healthcare facility conversion in Missouri in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Concurrently, Guarantee was tasked with outfitting temporary triage units and mobile testing stations at multiple area healthcare facilities.

The PayneCrest project competing for an AGC Keystone award is:

City Foundry STL. This project involved the transformation by Steve Smith and Lawrence Group of the historic, former Century Electric Co. foundry complex in Midtown. The biggest challenge for the PayneCrest team while working on the City Foundry STL project was creating a new electrical infrastructure from an existing building, while restoring the historical features of the space. Since the 15-acre lot wasn’t setup for its current use, PayneCrest collaborated with its team and partners to develop solutions tailored for installations.

Winners of the 2020 Keystone Awards will be announced at a to-be-determined celebration event later this year.

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