ARCO Design/Build

Prologis IPC-5 is officially complete, and it's built for the future of food distribution! This 175,900 SF cold storage facility in Tracy, CA is purpose-built for Sprouts and their growing distribution network across the Central Valley. Situated within the Prologis International Park of Commerce, the location is easily accessible to I-5, I-205, and I-580. Delivered in partnership with Kier & Wright, HPA Design, 4STEL Engineering, ACIES Engineering, H&M, and Green Design, every detail was designed mindfully to drive energy efficiency. A huge thank you to Prologis for the opportunity! We're proud to have been part of it.

Another major milestone is taking shape in Oklahoma City! Progress continues to move full speed ahead on the 254,200 SF expansion for Winsupply, with slab-on-grade placement and ongoing construction activities transforming the site day by day. Seeing the facility illuminated at dawn is a great reminder of the scale, coordination, and effort behind a project like this. Successful projects are built through strong partnerships, and this one is no exception. From ownership and design teams to trade partners and field crews, it has been exciting to see everyone working together to keep the project moving safely, efficiently, and on schedule. We are proud of the momentum the team has built and are looking forward to the next phase as we continue bringing this expansion to life.

It's National H̶a̶r̶d̶ ̶h̶a̶t̶ 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗺𝗲𝘁 Day. You read that right, today we're retiring the term. Our teams in the field are upgrading to the Studson SHK-1 Full Brim Type II safety helmet, and this isn’t just cosmetic. It’s functional. Traditional hard hats were designed to protect against falling objects. Type II helmets go further, offering protection from front, back, side, and top impacts. That matters because slips, trips, falls, and struck-by incidents don’t happen in one direction. Head protection should reflect that reality. These helmets also include NFC technology that stores emergency medical information, making critical details accessible in the moments they matter most. The construction industry has relied on the same basic head protection for decades. We think it’s worth asking what better looks like. And then raising the standard. This is ARCO's commitment to continuous safety improvement, made visible - and we're not done looking for ways to raise the bar. #NationalHardHatDay #ConstructionSafety #ABetterWayToBuild #SafetyLeadership

Creating an environment where people want to work begins with the team around them. You come to work because the people around you make it worth it. The work that's done, the relationships that are formed and the success that's achieved, together. Ranked as best place to work in the state of Indiana for the seventh year in a row. We're here because our people put us here. That's not a small thing. #BPTWIN #Indianapolis

Closing out Construction Safety Week with a note from our Safety Director, Aaron Ashley MS, GSP. "I've spent my career looking at safety numbers. TRIR, DART, EMR. They're the industry standard, and most companies stop there. Here's the problem: those numbers only move after someone gets hurt. They measure outcomes, not culture. A company can post a clean record for three years and still have a site where nobody speaks up, where near misses go unreported, where the schedule wins every argument it has with safety. The numbers don't show you that. They only show you what you didn't get caught doing. That's why we're changing what we measure. We track leading indicators that tell the bigger story: how frequently our project and field management team directly engages with trade partners on safety, through positive reinforcement and correcting unsafe behaviors, compared to how often our dedicated safety team does the same. That data tells you whether the people doing the work feel ownership of the risk, or whether they're waiting for someone else to catch it. It tells you where the culture is going before anyone gets hurt. Here's another one I watch: how subcontractors and trade partners talk to our safety team on site. Subs raise concerns, ask questions, flag something they've been thinking about. That happens because we don't show up as inspectors. We show up as part of the team. It doesn't show up on any dashboard, but it tells us more about where we are than any number we could put in a deck. Those measurements matter, but they're the floor, not the ceiling. We know one week doesn't build a culture. What builds a culture is what happens the other 51 weeks. Whether leadership gets involved in the safety process. Whether a foreman feels safe stopping work. Whether the crew trusts that the system is built for them, not around them. Safety culture isn't a destination. The work is never finished. But we know what we're building, and we have the blueprint to get there." #ConstructionSafetyWeek #STCKY #SafetyLeadership #ABetterWayToBuild

Operating costs are putting real pressure on self-storage performance—especially taxes, insurance, and utilities. Episode 4 of our Built for Storage series breaks down where those costs are hitting hardest, and how smarter, earlier decisions can help protect margins over time. From avoiding overdesign to improving efficiency through operations and technology, our experts Christopher Nonneman and Ben Burkhardt of Storage Study, focuses on what drives long-term performance. ▶️ Watch Episode 4: Operations & Profitability If you’re actively developing or evaluating opportunities, this is worth a few minutes. Just joining in? Click the link to view previous episodes: https://bit.ly/4tlsJjj #SelfStorage #DesignBuild #DevelopmentStrategy #BuiltForStorage

Underground utility strikes don't announce themselves. The life-threatening nature of utility strikes can sometimes be overlooked. A gas line or a high-voltage cable are hazards that can be invisible until they aren’t. Yesterday, our teams got a ground-level demonstration from our partners at GPRS, who use ground penetrating radar technology and multiple other tools to locate and map what's below the surface before a single shovel or bucket hits the ground. Knowing where the lines are drawn on a plan and knowing where they actually run are two different things. That gap is where incidents happen. Thanks to the team at GPRS for bringing this to our sites this week and continuing to be an invaluable partner in utility strike prevention. #ConstructionSafetyWeek #UtilitySafety #Excavation #STCKY #GPRS

Heavy equipment incidents don’t give you time to figure it out as you go. By the time something goes wrong on a jobsite, you’re already past the moment when planning would have helped. Today at our Greystar Tech Drive project in Garner, NC, we ran a full-scale emergency rescue simulation with Johnston County Emergency Services. A staged struck-by scenario, live 911 dispatch procedures, airbag extraction, and a basket rescue. Fire trucks, heavy rescue units, and EMTs responded the way they would on a real call. Most job sites have an emergency plan. Our goal isn't to prepare for the worst, it's to make sure it never happens. Thank you to every first responder who trained with us today. #ConstructionSafetyWeek #HeavyEquipment #EmergencyResponse #STCKY

Falls are the leading cause of deaths in construction. 40% of fatal construction falls happen at 15 feet or less. A ladder. A scaffold. A second-floor deck. Fall protection isn’t just for high-level operations. Any work above 6 feet warrants a serious look, every time, no exceptions. #ConstructionSafetyWeek #FallProtection #STCKY #ABetterWayToBuild

This week, every ARCO Design/Build job site stops for Construction Safety Week. Five days of training, stand-downs, and site-specific conversations on the hazards that carry the highest life-threatening potential during construction operations.   Stuff That Can Kill You – STCKY – is how crews on our sites identify the potential hazards that matter the most: heavy equipment, cranes and rigging, falls and dropped objects, fire, electricity, trenching, and hazardous exposures.   Plain language for serious risk.   Safety shouldn’t be defined by the environment, the environment should be defined by safety. Every project carries its own conditions, its own potential for hazards, its own pace. What doesn’t change is the culture underneath it… the habits, the standards, and the conversations that hold the line on every site, every day. That’s what we’re building each day. This week is just another one of the places it shows up. #ConstructionSafetyWeek #SafetyLeadership #ABetterWayToBuild #STCKY