Acquisitions & expansions:
- Bechtel introduced a new, "state-of-the-art" office in Houston, called #CityWestPlace. The company has fingerprints on numerous, significant Texas projects since 1931.
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- Blue Iron Foundation & Shoring bought the first zero-clearance, pipe pile press-in rig in North America; it installs pipe up to 36 inches in diameter and as long as 100 feet, with no vibrations. Giken manufactures the machine, which has been used in Japan for 20 years.
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- Cianbro grows its presence in South Texas through a purchase of TSS, its second company in the industrial contracting space. In Maine, it integrated with subsidiary A/Z Corporation.
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- American Equipment and Fabricating Corp. has added Motocut's automated pile cutting technology to its catalog. One of the machines will be onsite at IFCEE 2024.
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- Equipment Corporation of America opens a Washington, D.C., area, branch location in King George, VA. Add this to the list of great sites to visit in the Capital region!
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- Southern Earth Sciences, Inc. expands its offerings in Tampa by adding Construction Materials Testing to its portfolio. Trey Wilson and Dennis Mitchel are relocating the office.
Recognitions:
- C.J. Mahan Construction achieves a significant safety milestone by reaching four years without a lost time incident that's 1,331,431 man hours.
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- Cajun Industries, LLC snags two safety honors from Baton Rouge industry group; first place for general construction/maintenance and the distinguished Hal G. Ginn Award.
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- Cianbro, Aggregate Technologies earn national safety awards for 2023.
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- Kiewit is a finalist for the U.S. Department of Defense Employer Freedom Award. An employee and Army Reservist, Supt. Charlie LeBaron, submitted the nomination.
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- Kokosing is named Business of the Year in Knox County, OH, where it began 73 years ago.
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- Thatcher Foundations supports HIRE360, a Chicago non-profit helping employ people in underrepresented communities; Supt. Noel Outlaw attended a workshop.
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- Orion promotes health & wellness in an annual Biggest Loser Contest. Participants pay $50 to enter, which is then collectively doled out to winners in the weight/body fat loss challenge.
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- Veit was instrumental in establishing a K9 division at the Rogers, MN, police department in 2017, which gave Zeus a job there that year. The German Shephard retired last month, but not before visiting Veit to celebrate the division and his years of service.
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- Bull Moose Tube reports its new Sinton, TX, plant has been granted ISO 9001:205 certification by NQA applicable to manufacturing steel tubing and pipe.
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- John Lawrie Tubulars USA has won a U.S. patent for its innovative Endformed Connection System; the first shipment of 30K ft. of the pipe is en route to a customer.
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- GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. earns plaudits from the National Safety Council.
Giving back:
Government relations:
- McCarthy Building Companies, through a JV, will overhaul Southern Gateway Park in the historical Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, an initiative funded through a federal grant. US-DOT Sec. Buttigieg and Mayor Johnson stood with construction teams for a photo opp. Famous Oak Cliff native and NBA legend Dennis Rodman didn't make it.
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- Atlas Tube sister company Z Modular hosted U.S. Rep. Biggs at its Arizona factory to show a proprietary technology boosting affordable housing. In 2023, Z Modular was a winning Project of the Year entry for Texas Pile, which founded its San Marcos, TX, community. Elsewhere, Arkansas Gov. Sanders led economic development stakeholders in celebrating news that Atlas Tube's Mississippi County factory gained a $120M growth investment.
Anniversaries:
- Shannon & Wilson celebrates 70 years in business. The firm opened in Seattle, where it has impacted many high-profile piling projects. Among them is T-Mobile Park, home of the Seattle Mariners, for which it performed studies on 1,750 twenty-four-inch diameter piles driven into dense, glacial soils. Today, the firm has established a national footprint through its geotechnical engineering practice...and the Mariners host the Braves at noon.
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