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23 May 11

McCarthy Heart Hats Program Honored with a “People Helping People” Award

McCarthy recently received a distinguished People Helping People (PHP) Award from the Sacramento Community Services Planning Council. The PHP Awards recognize excellence in community service. Eleven honorees were selected from a field of 68 nominees. McCarthy was the winner in the “Hands On Sacramento” category, which honors encouragement of employee volunteerism, for its Heart Hats community outreach program.
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13 May 11

McCarthy Walks the Walk for Employee Health

McCarthy, one of the nation’s largest employee-owned construction companies, will be honored this weekend as a Start! Fit-Friendly Company by the American Heart Association (AHA). McCarthy Central Division President Scott Wittkop will receive the Gold-level award during the AHA 2011 Metro St. Louis Start! Heart Walk opening festivities on Saturday, May 14 in Busch Stadium. Start! Fit-Friendly Companies are recognized by the AHA as employers who go above and beyond when it comes to employee health.

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11 May 11

McCarthy Propels Employee Training in the Construction Industry to the National Stage Again

McCarthy was honored this week with a 2011 Corporate University Xchange (CorpU) Award for Excellence and Innovation. This award recognizes outstanding work in corporate learning and talent development and comes on the heels of McCarthy’s placement on the prestigious 2011 Training 125 list earlier this year. The awards were presented during the Global Leadership Congress 2011, a 3-day symposium co-sponsored by CorpU and the University of Pennsylvania. A first-time applicant, McCarthy was honored with a Best Practice award in the Launching Category.

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04 May 11

McCarthy Only General Contractor Honored for Outstanding Performance by California Council for Excellence

The California Council for Excellence recently announced their California Awards for Performance Excellence (CAPE™) recipients. McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., one of California’s premier builders and a first-time applicant, was honored with a CAPE Prospector Award. McCarthy represented the only general contractor among this year’s honorees.
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24 Mar 11

McCarthy Selected as a Build America Award Winner Two Years in a Row

Expansion of The University of Texas MD Anderson Alkek Hospital honored in 2011 Design-Build renovation category

DALLAS – March 24, 2011 – McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., a Texas builder since 1980, was recently selected as an Associated General Contractors of America (AGC)/Aon Build America Award winner in the Design-Build Renovation category for its construction of the expansion of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Albert B. and Margaret M. Alkek Hospital project. McCarthy, along with 20 other Build America Award winners and eight Merit Award winners, was recognized at the AGC’s 92nd Annual Convention at the Aon Build America Awards dinner on March 23, in Las Vegas.

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