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Whether it's a new project, construction industry updates, an employee teaming event or an opportunity to celebrate the best in our community - there's always something to talk about at McDonald Building Company.
MDSA enjoys the VIEW from 3.0 University Place with View Glass Preview
3.0 University Place is fully clad with these gorgeous and expansive View Glass Smart Windows. 🏢🤩🏢 What are smart windows you ask? UPA | University Place Associates has partnered with View, Inc. (https://view.com) that uses A.I. to softly adapt in response to the sun by increasing access to natural light and outdoor views while minimizing heat and glare. Not only do they reduce energy consumption, they completely eliminate the need for blinds. 🙌😎🙌 This project's dedication to the future of sustainability in design creates an innovative place for its future tenants to enjoy all the benefits of natural light including boosted moods and increased productivity. These smart windows are a monumental part of this build as a pre-certified LEED Platinum® v4 BD+C WELL project...check out how these dynamic windows can automatically tint/un-tint throughout the day and optimize the daylight (and skyline views!). This is just a preVIEW - keep a look out for when we have them fully programmed to see them in action. 👀🤝👀 #mdsa #universityplace #viewsmartglass #smartbuildings #4101market #lifesciences #philadelphia #cellidelphia #universitycityphilly University Place DALE Corporation
Timelapse Tuesday heads over to 400 West Elm site in Conshohocken
Today’s Timelapse Tuesday features our 400 West Elm project in West Conshohocken. 👷♀️🙌👷♂️ This up-and-coming 348-unit apartment complex will be filled with luxury amenities… residents will get to enjoy concierge-level services including a clubhouse & fitness center, private office suites, an outdoor courtyard, pet grooming services, a pool deck, and much more…all with some stunning views of Conshy and the Schuylkill River Waterfront! 🤩👏🤩 The 226-spot triple-level precast parking structure is now complete, sitework continues and steel erection has just begun on the main highrise. Construction is slated to complete in the Fall of 2023.
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This latest build wouldn’t be possible without the collaboration and partnership with Equus Capital Partners, Ltd. and JDAVIS Architects, PLLC. 🤝🥳🤝 #timelapsetuesday #buildingontrust #mbcbuilds #mcdonaldbuildingcompany #400westelm #equuscapitalpartners #jdavisarchitects
MBC lands #19 spot for 2022's Top 25 Contractors in the Philadelphia Region!
MBC is proud to be recognized by the Philadelphia Business Journal as #19 for 2022's Top 25 Contractors in the Philadelphia Region! 🥳🥂🥳 We are beyond thrilled and honored to make the list for the second year in a row! MBC would like to offer a big congrats to our other industry friends on the list as well. 👷♀️🙌👷♂️ Let’s raise a glass - three cheers for #19! 🍾 #buildingontrust #mbcbuilds #phlbizjournal #mcdonaldbuildingcompany Philadelphia Business Journal
Be sure to visit MBC's booth at the 2022 HFMADV Spring Conference & Technical Exhibition
MBC is representing today at the 2022 HFMADV Spring Conference & Technical Exhibition at the Radisson Hotel Phila in Trevose. 🙌👷♀️🙌 Not only is this day packed to the brim with educational sessions & trainings - we are also raffling off a digital notebook and two Phillies tickets! Be sure to stop by our table and say hi 👋, we'd love to see you there. #mbccares #buildingontrust #furtheringedu #hfmadv
McDonald Building Company holds Stand-Down for Safety at 400 W. Elm jobsite for Mental Health
This past week McDonald Building Company held a Stand-Down for Safety at the 400 West Elm jobsite in Conshohocken, PA. 👷♀️🦺👷♂️ Industry-wide, the month of May is recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month. MBC invited Rob Labbe, Jr., CSP from American Global to talk with the teams onsite and raise awareness on suicide prevention and overall mental health. According to the CDC, the Construction Industry has the 2nd highest rate for suicides of all US industries. By raising awareness, providing the proper resources, and starting an open conversation for those who need it most - we all can make a difference in helping a colleague who may be struggling. MBC would like to thank Rob at American Global and all who took the time to attend this very relevant and important Safety Stand-Down that heavily affects the construction industry. 🤝⛑🤝 #standdown4safety #safetyaboveallelse #buildingontrust #spreadtheknowledge #safetyeveryday #mbccares #togetherforMH
MBC attends 2022 Matthew J. Koenig Memorial Golf Tournament for AIA Philadelphia
McDonald Building Company was proud to represent as the Tourney Sponsor of the 2022 Matthew J. Koenig Memorial Golf Tournament last Monday for AIA Philadelphia. We enjoyed a beautiful day of sunshine and golf in honor of Matt - a great friend to many of us at MBC, trusted business partner, and industry leader. We miss him dearly but happy to see his legacy live on. ⛳️ #mcdonaldbuildingcompany #aiaphilly #mbccares #sunnybrookgolfclub
Batman the Drone Takes a Look at the Completed Woodlawn Storage Facility
It’s time for another Flyby Friday! 🙌 Batman the Drone took flight to check out the recently completed Woodlawn Storage Facility in the Germantown area of Philadelphia. Built for the Life Storage franchise, this 6-story self-storage center is now open for business and features 1200+ units for the storage needs of local residents.🦺
#flybyfriday #buildingontrust #batmanthedrone #mbcbuilds #lifestorage #johnsondevelopment #jkrparchitects
MBC Hosts Spring Cleanup at Kinder Park IV
Did someone say Spring cleaning?! This past Saturday, MBC hosted a cleanup event at our nearly completed Kinder Park IV site. This was a great opportunity for the MBC team, as well as friends and family to show our appreciation for Kinder Park, the Woodlyn neighborhood and the surrounding community. A huge thank you to the Delaware County Housing Authority (DCHA) and to all of those who participated! #mbccares#mcdonaldbuildingcompany#dcha#buildingontrust
MBC Celebrates the Opening Day at the Masters
⛳️ Our 3.0 University Place crew showing up stylin’ in full force to Opening Day at the Masters celebration. This MDSA dream team is on standby for Tiger Woods this weekend…just in case. ⛳️
Batman the Drone Heads Down to Delaware County to Check Out Kinder IV
As we approach the weekend, it’s perfect timing for an MBC Flyby Friday! This week, our drone “Batman” is flying high over the Woodlyn section of Delaware County to take a look at our Kinder Park Phase IV site. The team is working hard to put up the finishing touches on this beautiful senior living facility as this fourth and final phase of Kinder Park will be complete this May. Before we know it, this 6-story residential retirement community will provide 96 additional places for seniors to call their home. This couldn’t be possible without the irreplaceable partnerships of Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA), Delaware County Housing Authority (DCHA), Pennrose Properties and the multiple trade partners working hard every day.🤝 We are pumped to soon be able to show off the finished results!🙌
#batmanthedrone #flybyfriday #buildingontrust #mcdonaldbuildingcompany #mbcbuilds #pfha #dcha #pennrose
MBC Celebrates 12 Year Anniversary!
MBC would like to raise a glass and say, “Cheers!”🥂to 12 incredible years! Twelve years ago TODAY, McDonald Building Company opened our doors. We feel incredibly fortunate to grow and work with some of the best and brightest in this non-stop evolving industry. Here’s to the next dozen and more! 🥳🎉
#buildingontrust#cheerstotwelveyears#mbcproud#wearetwelve#nodadjokeshere#justappreciation
MDSA Celebrates 3.0 University Place Topping Out Ceremony
McDonald Dale Strategic Alliance (MDSA) proudly attended the Steel Topping Out Ceremony at 3.0 University Place at 41st & Market last Thursday as the last steel beam soared to great heights for final placement. 2,164 tons of steel was erected to frame out this groundbreaking & innovative life sciences building. This project milestone is an incredible sight to see and a notable accomplishment for our Ironworkers Local Union 401 as well as the entire construction team. 3.0 University Place is the FIRST pre-certified LEED v4 Platinum® and WELL v2 Platinum® project in Philadelphia, stay tuned for updates on its state-of-the-art sustainable features. Congratulations to University Place Associates+Silverstein+Cantor Fitzgerald on this momentous occasion, we are grateful to be your building partner on this project and support your vision.
We would like to tip our hard hats to our key trade partners and design team: Sheward Partnership, SteelFab, D’Angelo Brothers, B.Pietrini & Sons, Metal Alliance, Dolan Mechanical, Sunlight Electrical, 2A Mechanical, R.A. Kennedy & Sons, View Inc., US Roofing and D.M. Sabia🇺🇸🏗🌲
#upaphila #mdsa #dalecorp #mcdonaldbuildingcompany #buildingontrust #steeltopping
MBC Celebrates Women in Construction Week 2022!
The women of MBC are jumping for joy for Women in Construction Week!🥳🎉Every year, during the first full week in March, we take time to celebrate all the outstanding initiatives and hard work led by of our lovely ladies at McDonald Building Company. We are so proud to have welcomed 16 women to MBC in the last 2 years alone. These talented individuals represent more than half our resource growth in the last two years and just over 40% of our total employee count. What a great testament to an industry that historically was dominated by men. We appreciate all the brave women in the construction industry who make significant contributions every day. Happy WIC Week! 🙌👷♀️🙌
Timelapes Tuesday 3.0 University Place
Today’s Timelapse Tuesday features 3.0 University Place located at 41st and Market in Philadelphia. We’ve mentioned 3.0 University Place on our Flyby Friday, but we just couldn't wait to show you the time lapsed progress this site has made in a few short months. The amenity-rich site when finished will serve as an eight story, 250,000+ sq. ft. of Class A, commercial lab and office space perfectly tailored for tenants in the biotech and R&D industry. McDonald Dale Strategic Alliance (MDSA) has been working hard to make continual progress at the site.
Tuesday also means just TWO MORE DAYS until 3.0 University Place has their official Steel Topping Off ceremony! We can’t help but BUILD up the excitement to this huge milestone. We’re excited – are you?!? #timelapsetuesday #upaphila #mdsa #dalecorp #mcdonaldbuildingcompany #buildingontrust #steeltopping #finalcoundown
MBC takes on 2022 Giant Jenga Tournament hosted by ACE Mentor Program of Greater Philadelphia
Giant Jenga is back! Members of the MBC team made their way down to the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia with hopes to repeat history as the team had managed to climb their way to the finals in 2020.🙌🏆🙌 It was a pleasure to enjoy a night STACKED with friends, food, drinks, live music and of course giant Jenga! A towering thank you to ACE Mentor Program of Greater Philadelphia for hosting this awesome event as well as allowing MBC the opportunity be a proud sponsor. 🤝#mbccares#acementorphilly#buildingontrust#giantjenga
MBC Team for 400 West Elm Street "steels" a visit to SteelFab Alabama Plant
The MBC team took flight (literally) down to Alabama to visit the SteelFab plant for our 400 West Elm project in Conshohocken, PA. 🛫👷♀️🛫 Project Manager, Iliana Limon, and Project Engineer, Anna Lucas, for the project enjoyed visiting the plant to inspect progress on the steel erection for the jobsite slated to begin in late April. A whopping 1,807 tons of steel will be fabricated for 400 West Elm! SteelFab, Inc will be using Boccella Precast LLC for plank and XLE for steel erection. 🏗🤩🏗 400 West Elm’s steel is coming from various plants in America including several sites in Alabama, Blytheville, Arkansas and Petersburg, Virginia. At SteelFab’s Alabama plant they recently broke their own record of producing just over 1000 tons of steel in a single week. 💪🙌💪 Talk about incredible – it steels our hearts to be part of this kind of progress. MBC couldn’t do this without the amazing talents of our project partners at Equus Capital Partners, Ltd., JDAVIS Architects, O'Donnell & Naccarato, Girder-Slab Technologies LLC, and of course, SteelFab, Inc. Thank you for hosting us! We can’t wait to see this all come together in a few short months. #buildingontrust#mbcbuilds#steelfab#welovesteel#steelfabrication#metalfabricator#progress
MBC Ladies got HEART and Wear Red on National Wear Red Day
Today is National Wear Red Day for Women’s Heart Health! The MBC Ladies sported their best red to show their support and help raise awareness about heart disease in women. Did you know the entire month of February is heart month? Well, one things for sure… we heart seeing the Main Office ladies supporting a fantastic cause! 😍🙌😍 #mbccares#WearRedDay#WearRedandGive#GoRed#NationalWearRedDay#ourhearts ❤️💪❤️
Batman (MBC’s Drone) heads over to Market Street in Philadelphia for a Flyby Friday of 3.0 University Place
TGIFF everybody…Thank Goodness it’s Flyby Friday! 🙌🤩🙌 Today we’re flying high in the sky over at 41st and Market in Philadelphia to take a peek at 3.0 University Place. 📸🚁📸This incredible site will become 250,000+ sq. ft. of Class A, commercial lab and office space tailored for tenants in the biotech and R&D community later this year. MDSA, McDonald Dale Strategic Alliance, started construction on this 8-story build early this summer and soon enough this amenity-rich site will feature ground floor retail, a 16,000 sq. ft. green roof mezzanine, LED lighting, a chilled beam heating & cooling system, and a high-performance building envelope including VIEW Smart Glass (no blinds, heat or glare). For now, we get to “steel” a glance at the amazing tower crane and steel decking going up, enjoy! 🏗👀🏗 #flybyfriday #mdsa #buildingontrust #batmanthedrone #steel DALE Corporation
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from all of us at McDonald Building Company
Wishing you all a very happy holiday season from the McDonald Building Company crew! ❤️🤩❤️ As we look forward to 2022, may the next year be extra merry and bright. Cheers to a happy holiday and a happy New Year from all of us to you! 🥂🤝🥂 #mbccares#buildingontrust#holidaygreetings#holidayseason#cheersto2022
MBC Decks the Halls and Enjoys Holiday Cheer at Main Office in Norristown
Oh deer, look at the MBC staff getting into the holiday spirit and donning our ugly sweater best! 🎄🎁🎄 #mbccares#buildingontrust#uglysweaters#sleighallday#elfie 🤩🦌🤩
