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is also room in the large, easily-accessible warehouse to storefrequently-needed items that can be purchased in bulk. Havingsuch items in stock is not only more cost-effective, but can savevaluable time for project managers, who can simply requisitionitems they need at job sites. Once the warehouse is organized,McKnight expects to move on to organize the bulkier materialsstored at the Alexander Road storage yard and training center.Procedures are already in place to ensure the safety of thosevisiting the warehouse space to store or access equipment andsupplies.The large campus also provides ample paved areas forequipment and automobiles, with space for training and for anoffice building in the future, looking over the entire site. “If wework hard and we’re fortunate,” CEO Keith Wayne says, “we haveseveral things planned for the future.” “But whatever the futureholds, we want to be good neighbors. Before we plan anything,we’ll look at how to do so with minimal disturbance to the goodfolks who share this beautiful countryside with us.”Ductilcrete was used for the concrete paving atthe new WBI Headquarters in May 2015The 20-plus acre campus provides space for an outdoortraining area, which CEO Wayne sometimes refers to as an“outdoor lab.” The area is being carved out of the nearby woods,which provides a buffer for the training area, but which still isclose enough to the office building that the classroom, restroomsand break facilities are just minutes away. There, trainees applytheir classroom instruction in a hands-on fashion, actually usingsome of the tools they will be using on the worksites of theirfutures. The training is not only the perfect complement to theclassroom instruction, it is the ideal place to begin learningimportant safety lessons, as they train with equipment thatcan cause injury if mishandled. As they use those tools, theylearn lessons that are not easily forgotten. In addition, companyThe Next113