Building Bigger/Stronger Collaborations in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest!

BuildIT was honored to join our partners at Turner Construction, Flatiron/Dragados and the North Coast States Carpenters Union in Seattle on Wednesday, April 29th to discuss workforce development, training programs and the billions of dollars of infrastructure development taking place in Washington State and the Pacific Northwest (PNW).

For several years BuildIT has been partners with the Northern California Carpenters Union under the leadership of Jay Bradshaw, Cesar Sanchez, and Nancy Mateu. Earlier this year the Union announced they had re-organized to become the North Coast States Carpenters Union (NCSCU) so that their geographic region now includes all of Washington, Oregon and northern California - south to the Bakersfield region of the Central Valley.

It was with great pride that BuildIT brought together the executive leadership of Turner Construction and Flatiron/Dragados for this meeting with Jay and his leadership team from the PNW. With discussion topics ranging from marine workforce training programs, small business utilization, Sound Transit, King County, the upcoming naval shipyard projects throughout Puget Sound, to mass timber projects and high-rise developments – it was an incredibly lively discussion with a lot of shared values and opportunities for collaboration.

Thank you to Katie Trimpe and her team from Turner Construction (great new offices, by the way!) to Richard Grabinski, Travis Kraupa and Dave Horn from F/D – to the amazing Jay Bradshaw, Dan Nuncio and Antonio Acosta from the NCSCU.

There is a lot of work to be done… together!