C3M Power Systems Celebrates Zero OSHA Recordable Incidents in 2020

Safety has always been a core value here at C3M Power Systems. While 2020 brought with it an abundance of swift challenges and unknowns; safety remained a constant and became more important now than ever before. We are proud to share that we closed out 2020 with a safety record of no lost time and zero recordable incidents.

Joe Schlerf, Division Safety Manager, remarked, “Our 2020 Safety record is a feat that not many can repeat. It's very hard for a company of our size (190 team members in the field) to go for a little over a year with no lost time or recordable incidents. I contribute this to all the men and women that are in the field making Safety their top priority. It is especially hard to do when you are in the middle of a deadly pandemic.”

With a continued commitment to the safety and well-being of our field and project teams, we strive to maintain this record into the new year. As Chuck Hinton Jr., Senior Vice President has said, “If it’s not safe, we don’t do it!”

Celebrating our 6th Annual Field Employee Scholarship Banquet

Last Thursday, C3M hosted its 6th Annual Field Employee Scholarship Banquet - and its first virtual banquet!

This year, we proudly awarded 2 scholarships and 5 academic stipends to children of field employees. These scholars have shown hard work, effort, and determination. We are excited to see what they accomplish with their individual successes as well as the future impact they have on our community. Congratulations to our 2020 Scholarship recipients!

C3M ANNOUNCES OFFICER PROMOTIONS

C3M is pleased to announce three officer promotions that will help the company build on their success over the past five years and prepare for the future. Below is an excerpt from the announcement featured in the Spring 2020 edition of Clark Superstructure.

Chuck Hinton and Chuck Tomasco have both been promoted to senior vice president, and together will be responsible for leading the company’s operations nationally. Hinton and Tomasco were part of the founding leadership team for C3M Power Systems, which launched as a subsidiary of Clark Construction in 2014.

Chuck Hinton led many of C3M’s early projects that developed the company into one of the largest and most well-respected electrical contractors in the Washington, DC area. He is a recognized industry leader with more than 20 years of experience, including complex projects for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) and other municipalities nationwide.

Chuck Tomasco has overseen the successful delivery of projects across the country, including the Cincinnati Streetcar and Personal Rapid Transit System at West Virginia University, helping to establish C3M as a nationally recognized industry leader over the past five years. Prior to the formation of C3M, he worked for an electrical construction contractor and plated an integral role in the construction of many Clark projects throughout the Mid-Atlantic.

Additionally, Kevin Kilfeather has been promoted to vice president. Kevin joined C3M Power Systems as part of its founding team in 2014 as a senior project manager on the WMATA Orange and Blue Line and K-Line Rehabilitation projects. Throughout his tenure he had played a key role on several transit projects across the country including the I-395 Express Lanes, Oklahoma City Streetcar, and numerous WMATA projects, and has helped to grow C3M’s portfolio of traction power and intelligent transportation systems projects. As vice president, Kevin will oversee the Port Authority of Allegheny County Trip Stop Replacement project in Pennsylvania and the Los Angeles Metro Division 20 Traction Power Substation project in California.

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Pictured above from left to right, Chuck Hinton Jr., senior vice president, Chuck Tomasco Jr., senior vice president, Kevin Kilfeather, vice president.

C3M PROVIDES VOLUNTEER SERVICES TO NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE

Earlier this month, C3M Power Systems team members gathered at the SERVE Campus of Northern Virginia Family Service (NVFS) to provide much-needed updates to the electrical power and systems in NVFS’s homeless shelter, administration building, and food warehouse.

NVFS is a non-profit which, for nearly 100 years, has offered a wide range of services to more than 40,000 people across Northern Virginia every day – including shelter, food, workforce development, mental health, and financial assistance.

The C3M team’s work for NVFS included removing a steamer from the shelter’s kitchen, placing a junction box on an electric feeder, rewiring lights, relocating push buttons, and updating outdoor canopy lighting to LEDs.

“We have been itching to get out there and give back to the community,” said Donny Schwier, a general superintendent at C3M. “Our team determined what work was safe to perform given the current climate, and then dove right in.”

With COVID-19 still widespread across the region, providing volunteer support has been difficult to plan. Large-scale charity events throughout the region have been cancelled, and volunteer opportunities are becoming increasingly complex to manage as social distancing guidelines limit what support can be provided.

The volunteer support provided to the NVFS was planned with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in mind. Prior to the arrival of the C3M team, NVFS staff members cleaned all of the shelter’s touch points. Once the C3M team arrived, they coordinated with NVFS to ensure that social distancing guidelines remained in place throughout the duration of the work.

“The C3M team was very professional and they did great work while they were here,” said Shirley Hayden, business operations supervisor at NVFS. “They are real experts. I would love for them to come back in the future!”

Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, the team's desire to give back and support local communities through volunteering efforts remains alive and burning bright at C3M.

C3M Featured in ENR MidAtlantic December Issue

In addition to being recognized as the ENR Specialty Contractor of the Year earlier this year, C3M has been featured in the most recent issue of ENR MidAtlantic. Although the article features the award, it also covers our growth from a start-up 5 years ago to the present day. 

Check out the article here:

https://www.enr.com/articles/48357-five-year-old-firm-quickly-finds-footing 

C3M Teams Up with the Happy Orange Movement

Our office collaborated with the Happy Orange Project initiative to spread kindness and joy to our local community. The Happy Orange Project organizes a yearly hat drive that consists of making and donating hats for newborn babies at the local Inova Alexandria Hospital and Inova Children’s Hospital. Orange is the color of kindness and thus the color of the movement. Our team donated fabric and got together over lunch to cut and pin the patterns while our Purchasing Agent, Laura Gallanti, graciously offered to sew the hats at home.

Last year our team was able to contribute 60 hats to the overall total of 300 that were distributed! We hope to exceed that number this year and had a fantastic turnout at our fabric prep session.

For more information on this and other Happy Orange Project’s Initiatives, click the link below:

https://happyorangeproject.com/acts-of-kindness/happy-orange-project-donates-to-hospitals/

C3M Named 2019 ENR MidAtlantic Specialty Contractor of the Year

C3M is happy to announce that we'll be named the 2019 MidAtlantic Specialty Contractor of the Year by Engineering News-Record (ENR), the construction industry's preeminent publication. We were selected amongst the pool of all specialty contractors across all trades (electrical, mechanical, concrete, steel, roofing, etc.) in the MidAtlantic Region, not just electrical contractors, making the award a great honor.

In addition to this announcement, we'll be recognized at ENR MidAtlantic’s Nov. 5 Best Project’s event in Baltimore and featured in the December issue of ENR MidAtlantic. This incredible honor is due to the hard work of our entire team!

Read more here:

https://www.enr.com/blogs/11-mid-atlantic-monitor/post/47533-enr-midatlantics-specialty-contractor-of-the-year-is-c3m-power-systems

PICTURED FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: CHUCK TOMASCO JR., KEVIN KILFEATHER, PAUL OLEXA, IAN BOYD, JOE SCHLERF, BOB KESSLER SR., MIMI TANEVA, KIVINS BEECHER, CHUCK HINTON, AND MIKE DEER.

C3M Awarded 2019 NECA Project Excellence Award!

Our Rehabilitation of Orange and Blue Line Metro Rail System Project is the recipient of a 2019 NECA Project Excellence Award. It's one of only 17 projects across the U.S. to be recognized!

A thank you goes out to the team who contributed to making this now award-winning project a success including Project Executive Kevin Kilfeather, Project Manager Paul Olexa, Engineer Ivan Chauca-Salas, Foreman Rich Ladow, and Foreman Kevin Patterson.

Read more here: https://neca.secure-platform.com/a/gallery/rounds/8/details/440