Many industries are built on the prospect of repeat business, but in the construction and development sector, a trusted partner is far more valuable than any one contract. The ability to create lasting relationships that lead to future work can help company’s on both sides of the relationship to thrive. It all starts with that critical first project, and this is the journey that KBR Building Group and Erkiletian have embarked upon with The Asher mixed-used development project.
Crews working on widening a highway in Pinellas County, Fla., have encountered many ups and downs on the project, literally. “There’s a lot of unusual topography in the area,” says Tom Woodward, a senior project manager and senior estimator for David Nelson Construction, the general contractor on the $31.6 million Keystone Road project. “In order to keep the road more level, we’re having to install a lot of walls and do significant earth work.”
Infrastructure improvements are seen as a necessary part of improving our nation’s economic fortunes. With better roads come better travel conditions for commuters and tourists alike. This is a major reason behind Clarkson Construction, the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) and the city of Overland Park working together on the US-69 and I-435 Interchange Area Improvement Project.
When the city of Lubbock, Texas, created Lake Alan Henry nearly 20 years ago, it knew the day would come when it would have to tap the resource to meet its water supply needs. The city did not expect that need to arise until 2020; however, significant droughts in recent years and the decline of existing resources led officials to accelerate their plans. “We built the lake for future water needs, and the future is now,” says City Engineer Wood Franklin, P.E.
California contracting firm is applying its more than 60 years of experience in power plant and industrial facility construction to a new facility designed to be one of the country’s cleanest and most efficient. ARB Inc. is the general contractor working to complete the $452 million Lodi Energy Center (LEC) in Lodi, Calif., before its contracted July 17, 2012, completion date. The center, which started construction in 2010, will help client Northern California Power Agency (NCPA) meet regional power generation needs.
For professionals like Snowlift LLC, removing snow at airports requires year-round work. “It’s a seasonal business as far as performing the functions of actual snow removal, but it’s a full-time, year-round business getting ready for the next snow season,” President Michael Ferrucci stresses. “When the calendar turns to spring, we work just as hard to ensure our equipment is ready to go when that first snow flake falls come November.”
As of mid-December, RSS JV – a joint venture of Roanoke, Texas-based Oscar Renda Contracting Inc.; Fort Worth, Texas-based Southland Contracting Inc. and SAK Construction LLC of O’Fallon, Mo. – was more than halfway through the Bi-County Water Tunnel project in Chevy Chase, Md. The project will be completed by December 2013, reports James Grissom, project manager with Southland Contracting.
Like many cities, East Peoria, Ill. is in the midst of renewal. The city has grand plans for the redevelopment of its downtown area, and R.A. Cullinan and Son, a division of United Contractors Midwest (UCM) Inc. is one of the construction companies that is helping to make those plans into reality. As noted, R.A. Cullinan and Son is part of the UCM family. UCM is one of the Midwest region’s largest and most diverse heavy and highway contractors. R.A. Cullinan and Son’s experience with highway construction dates back to its founding in 1913.
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