{"id":7398,"date":"2016-10-05T13:28:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T13:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minutes.machine.market\/?p=7398"},"modified":"2016-10-05T13:28:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T13:28:33","slug":"hurricane-matthew-takes-aim-at-south-floridas-construction-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machine.market\/blog\/hurricane-matthew-takes-aim-at-south-floridas-construction-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Matthew takes aim at South Florida\u2019s construction boom"},"content":{"rendered":"

The construction site at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science<\/a> is a hub of activity as usual but instead of building up, workers are lowering and securing the mobile crane\u2019s boom, removing debris and hauling tools and supplies to an interior space or bundling them up and tying them down.<\/p>\n

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Skanska USA in South Florida, overseeing construction of Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science in Miami, FL.<\/p><\/div>\n

The builder\u2019s storm preparation plan is in full-on mode.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you start planning for a hurricane the week it comes you are in deep trouble,\u201d said MacAdam Glinn, who heads Skanska USA in South Florida<\/a>, overseeing its active construction projects including the Frost Science Museum. \u201cWe put our hurricane plans in our project plans.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Over at Moss Construction<\/a>, which has several tower cranes dotting the downtown Miami skyline, crews are at also at work battening down, but the tower cranes, unlike mobile cranes, aren\u2019t lowered but rather are set to \u201cweather vane\u201d or spin with the wind, said Scott Gerard, vice president of environmental, health and safety for Moss Construction, which has about 20 projects ongoing in South Florida, including Brickell Heights, 1010 Brickell and SLS downtown, Icon-Fort Lauderdale and the All-Aboard stations in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. In addition to diligent housekeeping outside, there are computers, architectural drawings and documents to keep safe and dry, and although it isn\u2019t glamorous, all those porto-potties have to be secured, he said.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not clear yet if South Florida will take a direct hit from Hurricane Matthew \u2014 but with a building boom underway across the region, no construction firm wants to be caught unprepared.<\/p>\n

According to the Miami Herald<\/a>, \u00a0That\u2019s because unfinished buildings invite in water and wind that could increase the damage. Window openings without glass must to be boarded up so the winds don\u2019t create uplift and potentially rip off the roof. Those decorative privacy screens attached to fences around job sites can become sails \u2014 those have to come down. Extra generators and pumps are brought in for post-storm clean up. And how about supplies and debris on a construction site, like timber and roof tiles and tools?<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t clean up your site, every piece of timber and shoring and tools become a flying missile that now only damages building but could endanger people \u2014 and it is 100 percent preventable,\u201d said Glinn of Skanska, with projects ongoing at Broward Health North, Chris Everett Children\u2019s Hospital and Barry University, among others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cleaning up debris and securing loose objects at job sites as well as residences and commercial properties is also the law, said Greenberg Traurig attorney Robert S. Fine. In Miami-Dade, county law is triggered once a severe weather alert goes into effect. In Broward, a building official will give the order, but in both cases, besides the potential toll on persons and property there could be legal consequences for not complying, Fine said.<\/p>\n

Jose A. Faria, a senior instructor with the School of Construction within Florida International University\u2019s College of Engineering and Computing and a construction safety expert, said fortunately the government offers a playbook.<\/p>\n

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) partners with real estate and construction trade associations to get its information out about how construction companies should prepare and respond to a hurricane threat. OSHA recommends that every company has a safety plan in place, with someone appointed to direct securing and evacuating the construction site before the storm as well as cleanup and restarting the job site after the hurricane has passed. \u201cFollow the government guidelines \u2014 that is extremely important,\u201d Faria said.<\/p>\n

While the proliferation of job sites around South Florida could make residents nervous for their safety, it shouldn\u2019t, said Moss\u2019 Gerard. Safety officials at Moss and its competitors openly share best practices for hurricane preparedness with one another because \u201cit only makes South Florida stronger,\u201d Gerard said.<\/p>\n

And one other thing that shouldn\u2019t make residents nervous: all those tower cranes seemingly blowing freely in the wind during a storm. \u201cThat\u2019s by design, for safety,\u201d Gerard said.<\/p>\n

BY NANCY DAHLBERG\u00a0<\/span>ndahlberg@miamiherald.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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