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For the second straight year, Rachel Contracting is humbled to announce that we received the 2021 Minnesota Safety Council (MSC) Governor’s Safety Award of Honor in Occupation Health and Safety!!  Team Rachel earned the award for having an annual incident rate that is better than 91% of the industry average!!!!  At Rachel Contracting, our slogan is “Committed to Safety,” and this prestigious award is a reflection of our employees’ commitment to jobsite safety.

Since 1934, the annual Governor’s Safety Awards program has honored Minnesota employers with exceptional safety performance. Applicants are judged on several years of injury data as it compares with their industry’s national statistics, and on their progress in implementing a comprehensive safety program.

Rachel Contracting was recently featured in the Minneapolis Business Journal, “Cool Offices” highlight.  Our new 28,000 square foot, St. Michael headquarters features, industrial steel beams, a lagging wall, putting green, private offices, huddle rooms, along with the best ICE in town!  Click HERE to read the full article.

Rachel Contracting is excited to have been awarded Subcontractor of the Year from the Minnesota Construction Association at its 26th Annual Awards of Excellence Virtual Gala! We are honored to have been selected for this prestigious award. The Minnesota Construction Association also has a new President, Dave Lyste, a Vice President with Team Rachel! Thank you to the MCA and thank you to Dave Lyste for your leadership!

Rachel Contracting has been a member of the MCA since 2008.

Check out the Virtual Gala: 2021 Awards of Excellence Winners | MCA (mnconstruction.org)

Each year, our members vote on the following criteria to select the award winner:

1. Is proactive. Provides excellent supervision and follow-through on action items.
2. Is a leader in their field of expertise or has skills, abilities, and products that make them the right fit for the job.
3. Provide other project participants with technical, financial, installation, and manufacturing/delivery information to enable efficient decision making processes.
4. Has excellent communication with project participants. Promptly responds to call backs and warranty items. Exhibits a teamwork and partnership attitude.
5. Implements and enforces project safety rules and regulations.

NDA’s DEMOLITION Magazine Highlights the Unique Demolition Project

Rachel Contracting’s demolition crew teamed up with Doran to make way for a new Multi Family project. Rachel was hired to clear the site of the former General Mills Research and Development (R&D) building located at 311 2nd Street SE, Minneapolis.  The work included the total demolition of six buildings that made up the R&D facility.  The buildings were as high as six levels with a total of 384,000 square feet of floor space.  We salvaged the building mechanical equipment along with all of the furniture and fixtures that was left behind from General Mills.  The interior GWB walls, AT Drop ceilings and carpet were selectively removed to get clean concrete floors.  The concrete was then crushed onsite for beneficial reuse.  We recycled over 30,000 tons of concrete and over 1,000 tons of ferrous & non-ferrous metals.  Over 85% of the material generated on the project was recycled. 

The unique project was recently featured in the National Demolition Association’s DEMOLITION Magazine publication.  Check out the full publication at the link below:

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Team Rachel is incredibly honored and humbled to have received the 2020 Jeff Jensen Memorial Construction Safety Excellence Award from the AGC of Minnesota!!!  This award is highly competitive amongst contractors of all sizes.  Our firm demonstrated safety excellence by a very low Experience Modification Rate (EMR) and a Total Recordable Case Incident Rate (TRIR).  The number of man hours that we invest annually on safety training for craft employees, supervisors, managers, and subcontractors is another major component of the Jeff Jensen Safety Award.  EVERY team member contributed to this effort!!!!

As a proud member of the AGC’s CHASE program, Rachel Contracting looks forward to furthering the partnership and fostering a top notch safety culture throughout the industry!!

Engineering News Record, in the October 12, 2020 issue, just published its annual list of the Top 600 Specialty Contractors and Rachel Contracting made the list again. ENR, published by McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., publishes this list each year based upon annual revenues of specialty contractors across the United States. Rachel Contracting earned a ranking of #299.  We are very honored to have moved up a few spots from last year!