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DPR Life Sciences.
DPR is one of the safest contractors in the country due to
its ingrained safety culture. The company promotes and nurtures
an Injury Free Environment (IFE) with the goal of
achieving zero incidents on every project. DPR’s approach to
safety centers on training, instilling and reinforcing safe
behaviors throughout the company and the entire project
team, including owners, architects and subcontractors. DPR
provides the tools and information needed to make informed
safety decisions. Over the past three years, DPR’s OSHA
recordable incident rate average was 1.18, compared to an
industry average of 3.6. This figure is based on an average of
more than eight and a half million total hours worked.
Feeling that building sustainable structures is simply the
right thing to do for the environment, DPR has become a
national leader in construction of more than 200 LEED® certified
projects and green projects across the nation. DPR has
nearly 500 LEED® accredited professionals on staff in every
office across the country to help navigate LEED® certifications
and provide advice on sustainability. The Sacramento
office was the first LEED® triple certified office building in
the area and received the Governor’s Environmental and
Economic Leadership Award. The value of DPR’s LEED® certified
and registered work over the past five years totals more
than $6.2 billion. A total of 246 DPR projects have achieved,
or are pursuing, LEED® certification.
DPR is currently designing its new office building on J
Street in Midtown with the target of LEED® Platinum
Certification, Zero Net Energy use and WELL Building
Certification. The company is working with architectural
partner, SmithGroup, to completely remodel the existing
1940s building, making it more modern and connecting to
the community. “The reason for our move to downtown is
that we want to deepen our connection to Sacramento. In
our first roughly thirty years in Sacramento, we’ve built a
great foundation and this move downtown will allow us to
grow in Sacramento for the next thirty years and beyond,”
says Sacramento Business Unit Leader, Nils Blomquist.
DPR is known for their progressive people practices. For
five consecutive years, Fortune Magazine ranked DPR as one
of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, reaching the top ten
in 2014. They are committed to providing the best possible
benefits and work environment for their employees. The new
J Street building will be unique in that it will not only focus
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