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Meet Rachel!Rachel has over 20 years in the areas of customer service, sales, and management experience. For the past 9 years she has dedicated her career to United Rentals Inc., the world's largest rental equipment company where she currently works as a branch manager for one of their middle Tennessee locations. She serves on the 鶹Ƶof Middle Tennessee Construction Leadership Council as active sitting President as well as active Director on the 鶹Ƶof Middle Tennessee Board of Directors.Why did you choose to get involved with your local Construction Leadership Council?My commitment for continuous professional development and to help stay connected to the community and business peers.
Once again, top contractors and subcontractors in Western Pennsylvania stepped up to support an important cause in their community.
With the addition of two new federal bid protests, 鶹Ƶis aware that four AGC-member construction firms have now filed federal bid protests objecting to project solicitations that require a project labor agreement (PLA). All four protests have led the government to voluntarily suspend the contract awards for the procurements while the protests are still pending. As reported recently in this article, the protests utilize a legal theory that 鶹Ƶhelped create with outside counsel at Fox Rothschild. All four protests are pending before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
In a new “Why Should YOU Adopt Lean” educational material series, members of the 鶹ƵLean Construction Committee integrate impactful research with approachable “get started” guide to help more contractors adopt Lean Construction Methodology in the field.
Written by Magen Schlesier, 鶹ƵArkansas CLC Student Chapter Committee Chair
This article was written and originally published by the GCA of Hawaii
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