Procore’s Groundbreak 2024 was Groundbreaking Fun and Insightful!

Procore’s Groundbreak 2024 event may have just passed but we are still reeling from what an amazing event it was! Senior Project Manager, Jeff Graef ventured to the mile-high city to see what all the excitement was about. The two-day event at the Colorado Convention Center brought together innovative construction professionals worldwide to learn from insightful future-forward sessions and experience groundbreaking technology. In addition to all these incredible opportunities, we got to meet up with the greatest Procore Certified Consultant of all-time, David McDonnel, in person! Dave is a huge reason why Procore launched successfully at MBC and why Procore’s offerings are still a daily tool to help keep us mobilized and optimized. Dave has stuck with us since the very beginning of our Procore journey and we couldn’t have it without him. A big thank you to Procore for an inspiring event and constantly reinventing how we can all be groundbreakers. #buildingontrust #mcdonaldbuildingcompany #mbccares #groundbreaker #innovationandeducation #procore #procorepals #Contech #GBK24 #wegotdaveashirt

Friendsgiving Success - MBC traditional Thanksgiving Feast and Card Signing!

Nothing marks the start of the Thanksgiving season for MBC other than our tradition of Thanksgiving Card Signing and (of course) our Friendsgiving Feast Luncheon! November keeps the Norristown office busy and in the holiday spirit, with staff signing cards to express our thanks to our loyal partners and client and ending the week off right with a well-deserved Friendsgiving Potluck. Check out these friendly faces enjoying one of MBC’s favorite months - National Gratitude Month. Pecan hardly believe we are approaching the end of November but couldn’t miss the opportunity to express our thanks to all of you for being here during this grateful time of year. Let’s keep the good thymes rolling and enjoying the reason for the season. Happy Thanksgiving to you all. Cheers! #mbccares #buildingontrust #mbcfriendsgiving #gourdtimes #thanksgivingseason #turkeyth

Pennsylvania Conference for Women hosts the MBC Ladies for a fantastic Networking Outing

The lovely ladies of MBC enjoyed a jam packed day yesterday at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women in Philadelphia...a day full of inspirational keynotes & speakers, personal & professional development, networking & community. #pennwomen #powerinunity #mbccares #mbcladies

MBC STAFF: Iliana Limon Ali Perkey, CHC Kelly Giuliani (McGettigan) Beth Armbruster, MBA Laura Clevenger Danielle Terpoilli Michelle Tyler

Congratulations, Carpenters Company, on its 300th Anniversary! MBC sponsored and proudly attended their anniversary bash!

McDonald Building Company was proud to sponsor and attend The Carpenters' Company 300th Anniversary over the weekend! What a wonderful time celebrating a historical milestone in Philadelphia with fellow members, AEC colleagues and guests from The Carpenters’ Company of London. While 300 years is certainly a long time, The Carpenters' Company of London dates back over 700 years and both Companies remain the only two existing craft guilds in the world.

Formed in 1724, The Carpenters' Company is the oldest existing craft guild in North America and calls Carpenters Hall museum home, where the first Continental Congress meeting was held in 1774. Lots of history! #mcdonaldbuildingcompany #buildingontrust #carpentersco

MBC STAFF: Paul McDonald Tom McDonald Laura Clevenger

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MBC attends the Fall Membership Meeting hosted by GBCA!

This Wednesday night, MBC was proud to attend the 2024 General Building Contractors Association (GBCA) Fall Membership Meeting. It was an excellent evening of networking, member awards and an interview with Jeremy Grey, EVP of HRP Group, to hear all about their ambitious land acquisition of Philadelphia's refinery yard and the vast development of the new Bellwether District. #mcdonaldbuildingcompany #buildingontrust #thegbca

MBC STAFF: Kelly Giuliani (McGettigan) Erick Tripp Laura Clevenger Jeff Graef

Spring Events are In Full Swing at McDonald Building Company!

Our folks were quite busy last week few weeks out and about supporting various industry organizations that are near and dear to MBC. Last week, we attended Project HOME's 35th Anniversary Gala as a Silver Sponsor and Atlanticare Foundation's 63rd Annual Gala as their annual Corporate Healthcare Champion sponsor, both fantastic organizations and ones we proudly support. And this week we were out on the golf course ⛳ to support the 25th Anniversary Matthew Koenig Memorial AIA Philadelphia Golf Outing as a Course Sponsor as well as the AMFP Greater Philadelphia - Association of Medical Facility Professionals Annual Golf Classic - also both exceptional organizations that we enjoy networking with those in the AEC community and markets we build in. 🤝 Whew...what a fun few weeks for us at MBC! Cheers! #buildingontrust #mcdonaldbuildingcompany #mbccares #buildingoncommunity #projecthomephl #atlanticarenj #aiaphiladelphia #amfp-philly

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Folks from MBC Enjoying Their Morning at HFMADV's 2024 Spring Conference

😁 All smiles this morning from the HEALTHCARE FACILITY MANAGERS ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE VALLEY INC Spring Conference today, come say hello to our crew! 👋 Left to right: Blair Biggin Erick Tripp Andrew McDonald Stephen McDermott LEED AP, CHC

MBC Ladies Enjoy a Day of Service with Habitat for Humanity in Lansdowne, PA

The women at MBC enjoyed a beautiful, sunny day last week spent on a cul-de-sac in Lansdowne to help lend a helping hand in support of Women Build Day for Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery and Delaware Counties. We secured attic insulation and attic framing, and the bulk of progress was outside building all the components of a perimeter fence surrounding the four homes. The day was uplifting, inspiring and GOOD FOR THE SOUL. A special shout out Patti Post and Paul Rihn, long-standing volunteers of Habitat who we've had the pleasure to partner with for several years now year after year at Women Build...these two are salt of the earth and are passionate about the communities they serve with their homebuilding skills. 🏡

Thanks to Kelly Giuliani (McGettigan), local Lansdowne resident Ali Perkey, CHC (baby Perkey too), and Michelle Healy for lending your heart and hard work to such a great cause. 👷‍♀️ 📐 💪 #buildingontrust #mcdonaldbuildingcompany #habitatforhumanity

MBC Celebrates 2024 Women In Construction Week!

It's Women in Construction (WIC) Week! 👷‍♀️ We are excited to celebrate the strength of our MBC women this time of year...especially the significant contributions they continuously provide to the future success of MBC and the construction industry as a whole. McDonald Building Company is proud to highlight the exceptional women at MBC and support the remarkable efforts and talents we experience at our jobsites and office EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. 💪

In honor of WIC Week, the women at MBC are once again partnering with Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery and Delaware Counties next week for 2024 Women Build - this time to volunteer build at a homesite in Lansdowne. We're looking forward to an enjoyable and uplifting day at Women Build to make a meaningful impact in our industry and the Lansdowne community. Interested in joining Women Build Day with us? We have a few spots left for Friday, March 15th! Contact us for more info or visit here:  https://lnkd.in/eSaARDq2
National Association of Women in Construction

Our Very Own Brian Cook Awarded General Superintendent of the Year by Subcontractors Association of Delaware Valley!

Last week we celebrated our very own Brian Cook at the 2024 Annual SADV - Subcontractors Association of Delaware Valley Professional Showcase as they honored the Best of the Best in Philadelphia Construction. Brian was the recipient of the 2023 GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE YEAR!! 👏 👏 👏

Congratulations to you Brian, what an incredible honor and very well deserved! #mcdonaldbuildingcompany #buildingontrust #sadvphilly

MBC Participates in Giant Jenga Tournament Hosted by ACE Mentor Phill

Last Thursday, the ACE Mentor Program of Greater Philadelphia hosted 64 teams for its annual Giant Jenga Tournament at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. MBC was not wildly successful and toppled over the Jenga tower in the first round...but what an enjoyable night for team building and networking with Philadelphia's finest in the AEC industry. Special thanks to our resident referees Shawn Philipps and Harrison Lownes! We are so proud to support the ACE Mentor Program who links up local high school students with mentor companies to learn and experience careers in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. #ACEmentorship

Happy Thanksgiving from MBC!

🦃🍁Our MBC crew enjoying our annual Friendsgiving luncheon tradition…Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍁

MBC Returns to Winning Golf!

Nothing is better than the camaraderie and friendly competition that comes along with the one and only Winning Golf TV! 📺 MBC was proud to return to the small screen to host a perfectly unFOREgettable day on the green over at the Blue Bell Country Club LP. ⛳ The team was so par over the moon to compete in several short game skills challenges and to learn alongside the pro himself, R. Douglas Hendricks. We had some exciting highlights with a few contestants sinking a few extraordinary long putts for a playoff to the Survivor Round! Episodes aired live on Comcast SportsNet and NBC Sports Philadelphia but you can still catch it here https://lnkd.in/eFgtvWSv. Tune in to watch one of our contestants putt 60 feet for a chance to win a truck or $20,000 in cash 💰 ! You won't want to miss it...Winning Golf "Where Everybody Wins!" Shout out to our captain for leading the charge, Laura Clevenger, and our exuberant cast of contestants for starring in a very momentous day of golf - Michael Fluehr, Nicholas Ofak, Sr., Gerard Leib, Jeff Porter, Noah Tolson AIA, LEED AP BD-C, FABC, LeanGreenBelt, Douglas DeLong, Paul McDonald, Erick Tripp, Matthew Kreft, Shawn Philipps, and Dylan Robertson. Thank you Winning Golf TV and the inimitable R. Douglas Hendricks, fore one putt-tastic day! #mbccares #buildingontrust #winninggolf #thatswinninggolf #holeinone #footjoy #bluebellcountryclub

Major Milestone NewCourtland Saint Bart’s Phase II!

Last week, McDonald Building Company proudly checked another momentous milestone off the list over at New Courtland Saint Bartholomew’s “Saint Bart’s” Phase II project with their Topping Off Celebration. Batman, the drone, was thrilled to capture the crane onsite as the skies echoed with achievement when the final precast concrete plank was placed. Huge thank you and kudos to the NewCourtland Team, the artistic design minds at Blackney Hayes Architects, Independence Steel, Boccella Precast, Dale Construction, and Thackray Crane Rental for all their efforts to perfectly top off one incredible day! Also, a BIG round of applause to our MBC Project Team - Erick Tripp, Matt Kreft, Anthony Galati, and Valerie Schell. Senior Project Manager Erick Tripp is eager to watch the site progress. “A special shout out to Independence Steel and Dale Construction, who provided and erected the structural steel, concrete planks, and prefabricated bearing walls. We look forward to the next project celebration in March of 2024!” MBC honors and thanks the dedicated trade teams onsite who ensure safety and precision on the field - day in and day out. #mbcmilestone #buildingontrust #batmanthedrone #newcourtland #mcdonaldbuildingcompany #mbcbuilds #seniorhousing #philadelphia

NewCourtland Blackney Hayes Architects Dale Construction, LLC INDEPENDENCE STEEL, INC. Thackray Crane Rental, Inc.

MDSA Friends and Family Event in July was a great way to send off summer by building a legacy!

MDSA (McDonald Dale Strategic Alliance) was proud to host a special and extra sweet "Friends & Family" event on the last Thursday of July down at 3.0 University Place on the Green Roof Terrace. Those who worked on the project gathered with their families to visit the site for a tour and see the incredible work their loved ones put into this build over the last few years. Although the day was a summer scorcher, the shaded terrace provided the perfect, breezy spot to showcase the outdoor amenities 3.0 University Place provides. Guests and kids enjoyed some cotton candy, putt putt, giant jenga, and Lil Pop Shop popsicles to stay cool. Thank you to HELM Creative Studio and Lil Pop Shop for a joyous and memorable afternoon. We are proud to be part of this one-of-a-kind construction and proudly share all this building has to offer with the generations to come. The day was perfectly timed out too, as it just so happened to line up with receiving news 3.0 passed all site inspections! Founder and CEO of UPA, Scott Mazo, couldn’t have said it better, “We’re at a great moment moving forward towards lease up and fitouts. Great job to both Dale Corp & McDonald Building Company...we’re looking forward to the potential of the entire 3.0 building!”

#mdsa #dalecorp #mcdonaldbuildingcompany #buildingontrust #universityplacephl #celladelphia #helmcreativestudio #lilpopshop University Place UPA | University Place Associates DALE Corporation

Thank you Revolution Recovery for hosting MBC’s SQP July Meeting!

This month, our SQP Education Committee arranged a staff field trip to Revolution Recovery in NE Philly for a site tour to get an up close look into their waste management & recycling sorting facility. Revolution Recovery receives 500-600 tons of scrap and waste each day at their primary hub in Philly and recently expanded their sorting facilities to Newark, DE and Allentown, PA. MBC has been partnering with Revolution Recovery or "RR" since 2010 and we are proud of our combined accomplishments of diverting significant percentages of construction waste from landfills to recycling centers, regardless of LEED or funding requirements. We also got to learn about RR's RAIR program (Recycled Artists in Residency) - a residency program that provides artists with a studio space to produce one-of-a-kind meaningful art with on-site access to recovered materials. We ended the morning with some delicious lunch from Sweet Lucy’s just down the street. Revolution Recovery is one well-oiled machine – many thanks to Casey, Fern, Jamie, and the entire team for one SWEET SQP day! #buildingontrust #safetyqualityproduction #sqpatmbc #revolutionrecovery #rair_philly Revolution Recovery

Thank you HFMADV for hosting a real hole-in-one Golf Outing!

The McDonald Building Company crew swung by the HFMADV’s 41st Golf Outing last Thursday over at Ramblewood Country Club in Mount Laurel, NJ. MBC proudly had two tee-rific foursomes represent us on an enjoyable day that was a real hole-in-one! Thank you, and big congratulations to the Healthcare Facilities Management Association of Delaware Valley (HFMADV) on another memorable outing. We can’t wait fore next year! #buildingontrust #hfmadv #mbccares #funforeall #golfouting #golfpuns 

MBC team attends ASHE regional All-Day Training ICRA 2.0 hosted by HFMADV

Yesterday, several members of the MBC crew attended the American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) all-day regional ICRA Class 2.0 hosted by the Healthcare Facilities Management Association of Delaware Valley (HFMADV). ASHE and this course aim to offer a full understanding of the Infection Control Risk Assessment Program to perform specialized construction in a hospital setting. Great job, fellas! Thank you, HFMADV for hosting. #buildingontrust #mbccares #healthcare #mcdonaldbuildingcompany #hfmadv #ashe #buildingoneducation #healthcareengineering #healthcareconstruction #training

American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE)

MBC proudly represented at the 2023 Matthew J. Koenig Memorial Golf Tournament as tournament sponsor to honor an industry leader’s legacy

The sun was shining and it was an absolutely perfect day for the 2023 Matthew J. Koenig Memorial Golf Tournament last week. McDonald Building Company was proud to be the Tournament Sponsor with our two fantastic foursomes! Thank you AIA Philly for a memorable and fantastic outing, it is one we hold near and dear to our hearts at MBC to honor a beloved friend and industry giant that is missed by all.

#mcdonaldbuildingcompany #buildingontrust #aiaphilly #mbccares #mbcsponsors #sunnybrookgolfclub #golfouting

AIA Philadelphia

MBC Ladies take March, Women's History Month, to a whole new LEVEL with Habitat for Humanity

McDonald Building Company is proud of our leading ladies who make a difference every day! The month of March marks Women’s History Month and we started off strong by celebrating Women in Construction (WIC) Week. To round out this memorable month, the MBC ladies volunteered over at Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery and Delaware Counties, PA as a sponsor in support of Women Build Week last Friday. Our MBC ladies learned some valuable and unmeasurably handy skills and had a "bolt" load of fun too. The framework makes the dream work…or is that teamwork? Way to represent, MBC, ladies – you NAILED IT! These wonderful women not only build each other up but build for an important cause! Thank you, Habitat for Humanity, for a wonderful day to finish out Women's Month. #buildingontrust #womeninconstructionweek #mbccares #thefutureisfemale #sponsors #marchiswomensmonth #herstory