Rangers Players Help Workers Celebrate
Million Construction Hours Milestone
In the year since Globe Life Field broke
ground in September 2017, hundreds of
construction workers, working day and
night to build the future home of the
Texas Rangers, clocked an impressive
one million hours.
Joined by Rangers baseball players
and staff, more than 900 construction
workers stopped their daily routines to
celebrate the milestone at a luncheon
hosted by the Rangers and Manhattan
Construction.
Shortstop Elvis Andrus was one of seven
players to make an appearance at the
luncheon. The players took time to pass
out commemorative hard hat stickers,
and sign autographs for the construction
team.
"From the bottom of my heart, and [from]
everybody in the organization, we really
thank everybody who is working on
this amazing project. They're part of the
history now and everything is looking
really beautiful so far," Andrus said.
As progress on the site continues to
develop, the total number of workers will
also increase, and is expected to double
by the end of the project, said Rangers'
Executive Vice President of Business
Operations Rob Matwick. It is estimated
the site will hit two million hours in early
2019. A project of this size normally
clocks anywhere from four to five million
hours of work, Matwick said.
"As you can imagine there are more and
more workers coming on to site every
day. When we started with the excavation
and were just digging the hole, it was
somewhat limited,” Matwick said. “Now
that we've got structure up out of the
ground, you can see the workers who are
actually out in the bowl, but there's also
a lot of work that's going on in the levels
below that have been poured."
This article includes excepts from an
article, 900 Workers, 1 Million Hours
originally published on the Globe Life
Field website.
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