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10 Stories From 2016 That Prove Construction Workers are Great People

January 11, 2017 Shane Hedmond
Heidi Prescott/Beacon Health System

Heidi Prescott/Beacon Health System

In general, we don’t celebrate the good deeds and accomplishments of our friends, family, and co-workers enough.  The fact is, there are plenty of people in this world who spend plenty of their hard earned time, money, blood, sweat, and tears making a difference in peoples’ lives.  Many of those people happen to be construction workers and this 2016 countdown will hopefully serve as inspiration to our reader’s to go above and beyond and use your skills to enrich someone else’s life.

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In News Tags best of, best of 2016, construction junkie best of 2016, heartwarming construction stories, contractors helping people, construction charities, ways contractors give back, ways construction workers give back, morgan's inspiration island, jj white inc, pultegroup built to honor, hill country construction company, skanska
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Construction Foreman Builds Life Sized ‘Where’s Waldo?’ to Cheer Up Kids in Hospital

July 21, 2016 Shane Hedmond
Heidi Prescott/Beacon Health System

Heidi Prescott/Beacon Health System

Nobody likes to see children in the hospital, it just doesn’t seem fair that such a young life should have to spend time inside of one for an injury or illness.  It seems, though, that job sites near children’s hospitals can bring the best out of construction workers.  For example, some construction workers who were on a job across from a 2 year-old leukemia patient last year, wrote a get well message for her on a steel beam that touched her and her family.  But, this year, a construction foreman in South Bend, Indiana has created a real life ‘Where’s Waldo?’ to play with the pediatric patients across the way.

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In Project Management, News, Construction Videos Tags construction, construction feel good story, jason haney, jj white inc, contractor good deeds, where's waldo construction, childrens hospital wheres waldo, life size wheres waldo, contractor helping sick kids
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