Welcome to the Shiel Sexton Blog

Shiel Sexton Company is a nationwide construction management and general contracting firm that specializes in Project Management, Field Supervision, Green Building Expertise, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Safety Management, and Quality Assurance. We have over 300 construction professionals all with the same mission to be a truly great construction company. The blog is an opportunity to get to know our culture, employees and the overall environment of Shiel Sexton.

02 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Shiel Sexton Helps Kick-off Community Super Bowl Program

Submitted by: Structure Man Last Friday Indianapolis Colts Mascot, Blue, and Shiel Sexton’s Assistant Safety Director, Matt Main, hung a 21 foot blue and white scarf around the neck of Shiel Sexton’s famed Structure Man. The scarf is part of the Indianapolis Super Bowl Committee’s Super Scarves program. In an effort to involve more demographics [...]

26 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Executive Profile: Kris Altice, General Counsel

Submitted by: Stephen Wolff Kris Altice serves as General Counsel at Shiel Sexton. Kris has been an important part of Shiel Sexton’s team for 11 years. She is our first spotlight for our executive profile and we are excited for you to get to know her a little better through a few questions we’ve asked [...]

19 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Dow AgroSciences: Job Creation Through Collaboration

Submitted By: Frank Duck, Group Manager Dow AgroSciences, Purdue University, and the State of Indiana have collaborated to create up to 48 jobs in Indiana’s fast growing life sciences sector. Shiel Sexton is building a 6,000 sf. new greenhouse attached to a 5,000 sf. research and support center, in collaboration with the state, and 15,000 [...]

13 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Collaboration and New Ideas Leads to GOLD

Submitted By: Stephen Oesterreich, Project Coordinator, LEED AP On Friday January 8, 2009 we learned that the Gene Glick Family Support Center was awarded LEED Gold Certification for its new facility, located at 16th and Martin Luther King Drive in Indianapolis. During the early planning stages, the Glick Center’s owner, The Children’s Bureau, decided to [...]

05 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Building Information Modeling

Submitted By: Frank Duck, Sr. Project Manager Shiel Sexton is constructing the Carmel Regional Performing Arts Center with the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM). Using BIM 3-D data to look at the inner structural and mechanical systems within a structure (pipes, duct work, steel beams, plumbing, fire protection, etc.) we are able to identify [...]

29 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Arsenal Tech High School: Updating History to Create a Brighter Future

Submitted By: Ken Bradley, Project Manager Arsenal Tech High School in Indianapolis’ east side is a unique institution. In addition to the occupational driven curriculum, the site was at one time a US military arsenal. In 1903 the federal government closed the arsenal. In 1912 the City of Indianapolis was growing and needed a location [...]

29 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

The Changing World of Senior Living – Update

The Indianapolis Star printed an article about the Marquette project in the Sunday December 27th edition of the paper. Check out the article below. December 27th Marquette Article

22 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

The Changing World of Senior Living

Submitted by: Lissa Woods, Resident Advocate/Project Admin The world of senior living is changing and so are the buildings. Shiel Sexton is currently working with Marquette, located on the Northwest side of Indianapolis, to build onto an existing facility to continue to provide some of the highest quality of living. A unique aspect of this [...]

15 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Old Design, New Recognition

Submitted by: John Andrews Shiel Sexton was recently honored by the construction trade magazine “Midwest Construction” in its “Best of 2009 Awards” issue for December. The magazine competition drew 128 entries to the contest this year. A team of judges, who are experts in the fields of engineering and construction, chose 44 winners across 20 [...]

08 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Giving Back to Your Community

Submitted by: Kevin Potter, VP of Human Resources Over the past 5 years Shiel Sexton has given over $2.6 million and its employees have given over 54,000 hours back to the community. At Shiel Sexton employees are given opportunities to volunteer during work hours without having to make up the hours they are volunteering. We [...]