KBE Building Corporation

ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 9, 2016 (Newswire.com) - KBE Building Corporation (KBE) continues to celebrate the hard work put into the Annapolis Joint Commissary and Navy Exchange project. The $300 million construction firm received Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Baltimore Chapter’s Merit Award in the General Contractor New Project – Over $10 Million category.

KBE also walked away with the Platinum Safety Training Evaluation Process (STEP) Award. The STEP awards honor the construction firms that participate in the program and demonstrate exceptional safety records in the industry.

KBE staff members and subcontractors from Potts and Callahan, Parsons, and Dennis Stubbs Plumbing attended the award ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore on Thursday, April 28.

This is the second award KBE received from the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) this year, having also received the Connecticut Chapter’s Best of the Best Safety Award for a General Contractor.

Project Highlights | Annapolis Joint Commissary and Navy Exchange

KBE served as General Contractor for the project, which encompassed these highlights:

• new construction of 52,000 sf single-story Commissary
• 88,000 sf Navy Exchange, serving the US Naval Academy, Naval Support Activity, and the retired military community.
• LEED Silver certification
• completed in 2014

Photographs from the award ceremony are available below.

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Photo Credit: ABC Baltimore

Caption: Eric Brown, KBE Principal and Senior Vice President of Operations, and Nathan Delabar, KBE Superintendent, accept the Merit Award for the Annapolis Joint Commissary and Navy Exchange at ABC’s Awards of Excellence in Construction & Safety on April 28, 2016.

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Photo Credit: ABC Baltimore

Caption: Kristen Schrader, KBE Business Development Manager, accepts the Platinum STEP Award at ABC’s Awards of Excellence in Construction & Safety on April 28, 2016.

Photographs of the Annapolis Joint Commissary and Navy Exchange are available below.

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Photo Credit: Paul Burk Photography

Caption: Exterior, Annapolis Navy Exchange

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Photo Credit: Paul Burk Photography

Caption: Exterior, Annapolis Joint Commissary and Navy Exchange

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Photo Credit: Paul Burk Photography

Caption: Interior, Annapolis Joint Commissary and Navy Exchange

About KBE Building Corporation

KBE has managed more than $4 billion in construction volume during the past two decades alone and is ranked among Engineering News-Record magazine’s top 400 construction companies nationally. With offices in Columbia, MD, as well as Norwalk and Farmington, CT, KBE Building Corporation is a full-service, single-source commercial construction company strategically positioned to serve the Eastern and Mid-Atlantic U.S. Founded in 1959 and incorporated in 1966, the $300 million firm provides preconstruction, construction management, design-build, and general contracting services to clients in the retail, educational, senior living, federal, corporate, hospitality, health care, and institutional markets.

KBE’s team of 120+ construction professionals and support staff is deeply committed to the firm’s corporate philanthropy program, 50 Ways to Make a Difference. Established in 2009 to celebrate the firm’s new ownership, name change, and 50 years in business, 50 Ways has helped KBE associates donate more than $1.7 million and 11,474 volunteer hours to charitable causes benefiting children, seniors, and military veterans in Connecticut and Maryland.

Learn more at www.kbebuilding.com.

Source: KBE Building Corporation