LeChase Construction Services, LLC

LeChase Construction Services, LLC has promoted JUSTIN BROWN to regional safety manager in Syracuse. Brown will ensure the company’s safety program across all job sites in Central New York. Specifically, he will lead efforts around safety training, tracking, and reporting. Brown will also ensure operations across the area comply with site-safety plans and applicable regulatory standards, and act as a liaison to clients and subcontractors on matters related to health, safety, and the environment. He started his construction career in 2008. Brown joined LeChase as a project engineer in 2017 and was named an assistant superintendent in 2019. In 2020, Brown earned a Construction Safety Professional Certificate from the RIT OSHA Training Institute Education Center. This required completion of a 70-hour curriculum covering industrial hygiene, occupational and health standards for construction, hazard awareness, and other topics.

LAIRD UPDYKE has been promoted to project executive at LeChase in Syracuse. He will manage multiple projects for core clients, with accountability for quality, value, and safety, as well as responsibility for overseeing recruitment and training of project employees. Updyke joined LeChase as a senior project manager in 2018. He has more than 20 years of project management and facilities-management experience, largely in Syracuse and Central New York. He earned a bachelor’s degree in construction management and an associate degree in architectural engineering, both from Alfred State College. Updyke currently serves as an advisory board member for the school’s construction management program.