As a valued project execution service provider to customers across diverse industries, Brock’s dedication to excellent safety, quality and execution yields consistent, measurable results. By delivering projects safely, on time and within budget, Brock strengthens customers’ strategic competitive advantage and bottom-line profitability. Driven by a commitment to excellence in project execution, Brock is a leader in providing specialty services, labor support, and materials for both maintenance and new construction in both merit and union shop environments.
Across the United States, Canada and Latin America, Brock serves diverse industries, including petrochemical, refining, power generation, offshore, heavy manufacturing, pipelines and transmission, nuclear, and pulp and paper. Brock provides customers with solutions for scaffolding, painting, insulation, shoring, lead and asbestos abatement, fireproofing, facilities maintenance, fabrication, and electrical instrumentation and heat tracing.
Brock’s solutions span new capital projects and existing facility operations and maintenance. By leveraging a cross-trained craft work force that delivers consolidated services, Brock can optimize cost effectiveness and efficiency.
Improving project economics
Data from Industrial Info Resources, the Construction Users Roundtable and the National Academy of Construction reflect additional activity across industrial project sectors as the investment cycle trends upward. This has led to a key concern regarding the limited availability of people with the skills needed to complete projects while also ensuring existing facilities continue to operate uninterrupted.
The industry has encountered labor shortage issues in the past. The difference is that, as demand exceeds supply in multiple industries, the challenge is aggregated and owners and operators have no choice but to address the issue.
Brock is uniquely positioned to respond, having developed a multicraft work force that has already proven its value.
By employing a cross-trained craft labor work force, Brock brings “multicrafting” to customers. Under this paradigm, skilled craft workers perform multiple functions, becoming a flexible team that can engage where needed at a worksite. The result is increased responsiveness with less downtime.
Companies employing this technique benefit from overall labor cost savings, decreased project work force requirements and increased average employment duration.
In addition, because Brock self-performs all work — unlike other service providers that may use subcontractors to perform under a multicraft agreement — the company serves as a single point of accountability with the ability to drive improved efficiencies.
“As near-term capital project and maintenance trends show increased investment activity, Brock is well-positioned to assist customers with the rising demand for craft labor resources to ensure the timely completion of projects within stated budget requirements,” stated Brock Chairman and CEO Jeff Davis. “Brock has the proven ability to provide a skilled craft work force with a strong safety record that delivers results utilizing tested processes and systems.”
Multicrafting + consolidation
Brock has demonstrated to customers the value of consolidation of specialty industrial services under a single provider. The financial and organizational benefits of the consolidated services approach are well established. Owners; operators; and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors have been able to decrease costs and tighten schedules through a more responsive craft labor arrangement with a single point of contact.
Although Brock has already brought competitive advantages to many customers through consolidation of services, the company continues to evolve their solutions model. Through further innovation, Brock is able to provide enhanced capabilities that are of considerable importance to customers during the current robust investment cycle.
“By combining a multiskilled work force with multisite, consolidated services, Brock delivers productivity enhancements and continuous improvement,” said Davis.
Robust project capabilities
Brock’s multicraft teams are capable of performing a range of services, including scaffolding, shoring, insulation, coatings, fireproofing, lead and asbestos abatement, instrumentation and electrical, shop coatings, and heat and steam tracing. These are complemented by services for operations support, facilities maintenance, janitorial, yards and grounds, roofing, labor support and management services oversight.
Brock provides innovative, customized and viable solutions through a flexible, responsive team. Driven by a commitment to execution excellence, the company combines problem-solving capabilities with technical expertise, with appropriate controls in place to ensure required results.
The solutions approach begins with a systematic analysis of performance goals, challenges, schedules and financial implications.
“Brock begins every engagement by aligning with the customer on success metrics,” said Brock Chief Development Officer Marty Stamey. “We approach each project with a focus on improving productivity, minimizing risk, optimizing scheduling and ensuring cost efficiencies. We execute proactively, anticipating issues and developing mitigation strategies rather than simply reacting. This promotes cost and schedule savings while ensuring quality and safety.”
As a project execution team member, Brock applies a managed approach to all of its services, integrating estimating, scheduling, planning and progress tracking systems to ensure quality performance and on-time completion of critical path projects. Brock’s services include:
• Scaffolding — Brock has more than 30 years of experience in the business of effective scaffold engineering, OSHA compliance, design, erection and dismantle. A diverse inventory of access systems enables scaffold teams to respond immediately to client needs, including access for maintenance, new construction, outages or turnarounds. Strategically located support facilities make rental material quickly available to customers.
• Coatings — A leader in the development and management of industrial coatings solutions for asset protection, Brock combines technical expertise with practical skills, providing high quality surface preparation and coatings for structural steel, vessels and tanks, equipment and other facility assets that enhance operational reliability. By providing a managed approach to mitigate atmospheric corrosion and services designed to control corrosion, the company helps clients avoid costly steel replacement while meeting regulatory and safety requirements.
• Insulation — Brock’s industrial insulation expertise helps facilities operate at maximum efficiency while reducing risks and costly repairs. Capabilities include installation in support of large-scale capital construction projects, energy efficiency studies, maintenance and repair. Brock’s insulation experts are also skilled at identifying and repairing deficiencies in existing insulation, as well as preventing corrosion under insulation.
• Fireproofing — Brock provides high performance fire protection systems tailored to fit specific project requirements and designed to minimize the escalation of fire from the failure of structural supports or overheating of pressure vessels. Brock is a full-service provider for intumescent and cementitious fireproofing products, applied on site or in shop facilities.
• Instrumentation and electrical/heat tracing — Brock’s technically proficient team designs, installs, tests, commissions and maintains instrumentation and electrical and heat tracing services. Brock experts work closely with customers to select the appropriate products from a broad range of manufacturers. The company has the financial resources, equipment and personnel required to complete large capital projects.
Customer benefits
Brock’s processes are designed to bring the best industry practices and best people to each unique customer need, as well as to achieve the lowest total installed cost for customers. By aligning with the customer to determine the work to be performed, the priority and schedule of each element, and the most appropriate and efficient way to deliver services at each facility, Brock provides a proven platform for repeatability, dependability and continuous cost reduction.
The foundation for Brock’s services are innovative, process-driven management programs that collectively maximize the effectiveness of bundled services, as well as benchmarking capabilities that analyze performance across multiple sites and drive continuous improvement. This includes multiple, distinct steps and incorporates various measurements used to track productivity and other elements with project cost impact.
This unique approach and execution skillset benefits customers through management and reduction of maintenance expenditures, increased profitability, improved safety and operating conditions, better planning and scheduling, more effective utilization of resources, and increased asset reliability and service life.
Customers can rely on Brock to deliver benefits. From the company’s inception as a painting contractor in 1947 through its evolution to an innovator in delivery of multicraft services, Brock’s ability to meet and exceed customer expectations is well documented.
Safety — Always a priority
Brock’s leadership team is uniquely equipped to understand the customer’s perspective while approaching project execution.
Brock views safety as a core area of focus, recognizing the value of an accident-free worksite. Each employee is empowered and expected to keep the site safe for Brock, the owner or EPC contractor and the community.
Brock’s approach has been widely recognized in the industry through national, regional and customer safety awards. The company has more OSHA VPP Star worksites than any other specialty service provider, with 19 coast to coast.
Commitment to quality
By self-performing all core services work, Brock has a single point of control and accountability driving performance and improvement opportunities. This approach supports the company’s continuous improvement initiatives, as well as other quality-related programs.
Brock’s Performance Management Group utilizes a site-by-site scorecard to evaluate key performance indicators related to financial, customer satisfaction, process improvements and employee/learning perspectives. By polling customers and on-site managers, Brock validates operating performance against customer-aligned objectives and expectations, measuring, analyzing and closing any performance gaps.
Training
Brock continually educates its top quality craft workers through workshops, on-the-job training, audiovisuals, handouts and seminars with explicit results requirements. Multicraft training gives employees an opportunity to broaden capabilities, which also brings additional value to customers. Brock commits to the resources necessary to provide the latest in technical training aids, as well as investing the time necessary to train its valued employees in the manner that offers the best overall results for customers in quality, safety and productivity.
Outstanding system-wide resources
Brock provides customers with both near-term and long-term cost savings through multicraft solutions, consolidated services, leveraging core competencies of management expertise, and proficiency in safety and quality processes.
As part of its overall solution offering, Brock has also effectively combined its resources to implement a variety of reliability management programs. These programs have evolved significantly over Brock’s long history and today include software-driven features providing recommendations on prioritization of work, specifications and justification of costs. These powerful programs offer significant cost advantages, enabling the development of long-term strategies for maximizing facility asset protection at the lowest total life-cycle cost.
Processes and procedures
Brock’s success has been due, in large part, to an ability to provide exceptional, facility-level service without losing sight of higher-level customer needs. By continuing to be process intensive and safety focused while also employing a planned approach, programs, measurements and maintaining strong management, which are all core strengths, Brock is able to perform effectively in both merit and union shop environments.
Effective solutions for today’s challenging execution environment
Brock understands the importance of cost and schedule savings to customers. Brock’s planned and measured approach allows customers to systematically evaluate maintenance and capital budgets and near- and long-term schedules, with better overall results.
With a combination of forward-thinking leadership and a strong base of craft labor, Brock developed a multicraft work force solution that has already proven its value, well in advance of today’s demand-based execution environment. Brock has the labor and equipment resources, experience and scale to effectively manage multisite/multicraft customer relationships. Brock’s customers stand to benefit from the company’s proactive multicrafting experience, just as they have for many years since Brock’s implementation of the approach.
The Brock Group — Others claim it, we do it. Right from the ground up.
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