Community Relations
The Lane Construction Corporation recognizes their responsibility to support the communities where they live and work, and to be a good neighbor. Lane provides support in the form of donations of materials and services to organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, Community Fire Departments, Little Leagues, Recreation and Community Associations, Schools and others.
We encourage our facilities to be involved in the community. Virginia Paving Company, A Division of The Lane Construction Corporation, was recently one of four national winners of the National Asphalt Paving Association’s (NAPA) 2005 Community Involvement Award.
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Lane Community Service Awards
Each year, beginning in 2008, Lane will pick the three plant locations that exemplify giving to and serving the communities in which they operate. We recognize that in addition to the regulatory licenses we hold there is a social license to operate that exists when our business and the community benefit from each other. In recognition, the top three plants will be given $5000, $3000, and $1000 respectively to donate to the charity of their choice. We are excited about this new program and look forward to seeing what our locations can do.
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Lane Sponsors Steel Bridge Competition
The American Institute of Steel Construction Student Steel Bridge competition for the Northeast region was held at the University of Connecticut in Storrs on March 17, 2007. Teams from eleven engineering programs from across the region participated including one team from Canada. The top three teams advanced to the National competition to be held at Cal State - Northridge on May 25-26, 2007. The participants in finishing order were: Merrimack, MIT, UConn, Laval (Quebec), the University of Vermont, Northeastern, the University of Maine, Tufts, Wentworth, UMass – Amherst, and the University of New Hampshire. With Lane as one of the major event sponsors, this year’s regional was a successful and competitive event.
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Engineer Visits the Classroom
Recently, Lane Engineer, Sean Mason molded young minds as he participated in the national Great American Teach-In. Sean, a Job Engineer from the Lakeland, Florida office, provided a PowerPoint presentation to a class from Westwood Middle School in Lakeland. According to Sean, the students particularly enjoyed the pictures of Lane's projects in our nation's capitol, Washington, D.C. and of course they were thrilled by the work we have recently completed on several NASCAR race tracks across the country. After the presentation, the children asked lots of questions, with some being surprisingly good for 12 year olds which took up the rest of their class time. “I must say that I am very happy to have had the opportunity to participate in this type of event. I can honestly say that it has been quite some time since I have felt this rewarded.” said Mason.
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Tools For Schools
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It's difficult to succeed in work or in learning if you don't have the right equipment to do your job. That's why Virginia Paving Co. of Alexandria, Va., a division of The Lane Construction Corp., held a "Tools for Schools" event in August 2005.
Virginia Paving Co.'s hot-mix plant employees helped stuff book bags with school supplies donated by the company, providing the children with pencils, notebooks, crayons, markers, organizational boxes, and other materials.
The Tools for Schools program was coordinated through the Campagna Center, which provides Head Start services to underprivileged children in Historic Old Town Alexandria.
Virginia Paving Co. has assisted the Campagna Center in other ways as well, providing stocking caps and mittens for children and agreeing to pave its parking lot when the weather permits. "this will be an ongoing program for us," said Chris Monahan, environmental coordinator at Virginia Paving Co.
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Adopt-A-Stream
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Virginia Paving Co. also strives to be an ecologically responsible neighbor, and in the past employees have occasionally cleaned the section of Backlick Run behind its paving plant. Now the company has formalized its cleanup program by participating the last two years in the “Adopt-A-Stream” program managed by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. During this event, company volunteers cover a one-quarter-mile section of the stream, collecting trash and debris from both sides of its banks.
“We have had the satisfaction of seeing first-hand how our cleanup work can improve this local waterway,” said Monahan. “We hope next year to open it up to community groups and invite their participation.” Virginia Paving Co. takes its responsibility to Alexandria very seriously, says Monahan. “It’s important for us as a business within the city to give back to the city. Management is giving us a lot of support to pursue these types of programs. We are neighbors within this community, and it is our obligation to do our part in being as good a neighbor to them as they are to us.”
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