Hatzel & Buehler acquires the assets of J.P. Rainey & Company, Inc. 

Hatzel & Buehler, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has acquired the assets of J.P. Rainey & Company, Inc.  J.P. Rainey specialized in providing electrical services to health care providers in the Philadelphia Metropolitan area.  Among its leading clients were Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Main Line Health Systems, which includes such hospitals as Lankenau Medical Center, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Paoli Hospital, and Riddle Hospital.  The acquisition of J.P. Rainey will add to Hatzel & Buehler’s growing list of health care clients such as Inspira Health Networks, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Penn Medicine, Northwell Health, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and University of Michigan Health System.

Pittsburgh Office completes final phase of renovations throughout Two PNC Plaza

PNC-Tower

Bluestone Communications is currently completing the final renovations throughout Two PNC Plaza – which includes 7 floors and the lobby.  Bluestone technicians are installing category 6A cable to all work stations, audio visual media boxes and wireless access points throughout the floors.  Additional scope of work includes the installation of a new fiber and copper backbone to each new telecommunications room.  At the conclusion of this renovation phase, all 34 floors of the Plaza will be fully renovated.

Bluestone awarded maintenance contract for Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Bluestone Communications was again awarded the on-site maintenance contract with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.  The maintenance contract includes all Thomas Jefferson center city campuses and surrounding areas.  Bluestone’s on-site technicians provide project management services, while overseeing all Moves/Adds/Changes (MAC) and general project work, for the twenty seven buildings on the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital campus.  Work is performed in office, hospital and educational facilities, requiring Bluestone technicians to work in environments involving patients, doctors, nurses, students and the general public.

Bluestone Technicians are also working on various projects at Aria Health (after the Thomas Jefferson acquisition of Aria Health).

Bluestone hires industry veteran and opens branch office in New Jersey

In an effort to better serve their existing New Jersey Customers – as well as establish new local relationships – Bluestone Communications has opened a branch office in South Plainfield, New Jersey. Steven Demcsak, a 25-year industry veteran to the New Jersey market, will oversee the new branch.  Steven’s long-time experience with premier financial, healthcare, and pharmaceutical institutions will help support and grow this new venture.

Hatzel & Buehler and Bluestone Communications had zero lost time injuries in 2017

With 1.6 million man hours worked in 2017, Hatzel & Buehler and Bluestone Communications proudly ended the year with zero lost time injuries. Leveraging our multi-tiered safety team – functioning at the corporate, branch and field levels – Hatzel & Buehler and Bluestone Communications’ TRIR (Total Recordable Incident Rate) continues to be significantly less than the Electrical Industry standard.

Hatzel & Buehler and Bluestone Communications proudly raises funds to support the American Red Cross

Employees from Hatzel & Buehler and Bluestone Communications generously donated funds to support the American Red Cross and their disaster relief efforts.  The companies matched all employee donations, with a 100% matched donation.

Bluestone awarded contract for Comcast Innovation & Technology Center

Bluestone Communications was awarded IT and Acoustical packages throughout the new Comcast Innovation & Technology Center – a 1,500,000 square foot, 60-floor building (currently under construction) in Philadelphia, PA.   With a height of 1,121 feet, it will be the tallest building in Philadelphia and the ninth-tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. The building will consist primarily of office space, but will also include a newly constructed Four Seasons Hotel, television studios, a retail mall, a parking garage and a restaurant located on the top-floor of the building.

Bluestone’s overall scope of work includes the Installation of Structured Cabling, CATV infrastructure,  Fiber & Copper Backbone, Wireless Infrastructure,  Sound Masking and Network Hardware through-out over (40) floors that Comcast/ NBC will occupy beginning in the spring of 2018.

Bluestone performs expansion work at CHOP’s new Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care- Phase 2A
Philadelphia, PA

CHOP is expanding the Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care building to build out floors 9-12. Bluestone Communications was awarded the Installation for the horizontal voice, data and coaxial cabling. Bluestone will also be working with CHOP’s vendor to install the Nurse Call system, Video Surveillance system, Access Control Systems and the Audio Visual system.

NECA recognizes Bluestone for Safety excellence

Bluestone Communications received special recognition from NECA for their excellence in safety, proudly receiving the “2017 Zero Injury” Award.

“NECA’s Safety Excellence and Zero Injury Awards program is an elite safety recognition program focused on recognizing thriving companies that excel in multiple areas of their safety and health programs. Awards are given to member companies that consistently have OSHA recordable injury and fatality rates at levels lower than the industry standard, and implement internal company safety practices above and beyond basic compliance. The Zero-Injury Award recognizes those member-companies that have worked a full calendar year without recordable incidents. The Safety Excellence Award is the associations premier recognition program, and acknowledges member-contractors safety performance.” (www.necanet.org)