MLS Stadium Construction Workers Exercise Together Every Day
Date Posted: May 4, 2021
Posted In: People, Workforce,
From Fox2: Our Bommarito Automotive Group SkyFOX catches a daily ritual for construction workers at the new soccer stadium in Downtown St. Louis. The workers say it’s the best way to start the day.
“Every morning we do bend and stretch with everybody on site. That’s a requirement,” said Ian Small, safety director for the Mortenson-Alberici-Keeley Joint-Venture (MAK JV) construction team that’s building the stadium for St. Louis’s new Major League Soccer (MLS) soccer team, St. Louis CITY SC. “It wakes you up, for sure.”
And with the kind of work that goes into an estimated $460 million, 22,500-seat stadium, you truly have to be on your game.
Every day at 7 a.m. sharp, the workers go through a professionally-designed 5 to 7-minute program to loosen up. Everyone participates, from management on down.
“It’s part of our ‘zero injury’ program,” Small said. “We do this across the country on all of our projects.
“It’s more than just about the stretching. It’s really about communication, building morale, establishing our culture.”
Dr. Katie Russo of SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital’s physical therapy department says that goes for all of us.
Not just the professional athletes who will be playing soccer at the stadium in the near future and not just the 200 workers now stretching daily at the construction site.