Giving back:
- Balfour Beatty US gifted laptop computers to the NJROTC CyberPatriot Team at a Northeast Florida high school to give the students resources to hone their skills in fending off cyberattacks.
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- Bowen Engineering Corp. steps up for an Indianapolis charity that helps kids with special needs. On Giving Tuesday, it matched donations to Anna's Celebration of Life Foundation.
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- Dissen & Juhn Company has built foundations in and around Maryland for 50 years. It supports Giving the Edge Foundation, which strives to build a human foundation in Stevensville, MD, through nurturing young people to be successful, caring, responsible and productive.
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- Mason Construction VP Le Short encourages support of Ben and Makayla Lindsey, whose premature newborn faces severe medical challenges. Ben also works for the Texas contractor and started a GoFundMe as the family braces for prolonged hospitalization.
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- Richard E. Pierson Construction Co. was one of numerous PDCA members to participate in a holiday toy drive to benefit a local charity. Notably, the New Jersey contractor's collection of donated gifts to nearby Nemours Children's Hospital was the largest it received in 2023.
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- Lodge Lumber Co. amassed a wood boat-load of holiday gifts for patients at Texas Children's Hospital. J.W. Lodge, resembling Santa in a puffer vest, made the delivery to Candy Cane Lane.
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- GTA Geo-Technology Associates, Inc. was among the sponsors that donated $5,000+ worth of children's coats for the Cradles to Crayons charitable drive in Philadelphia.
Recognitions:
- Baker GCI dusted off their boots to receive awards from the Louisiana building industry, including one for the Chevron REG GTB piling project that was deemed 'excellent.'
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- CIANBRO was honored at the Maine State Chamber of Commerce annual dinner. The group paid tribute to founders and brothers Carl, Kenneth Ival "Bud," and Alton Cianchette. CEO/president Patrick Woodcock and Cianchette family lineage attended the Dirigo Award ceremony.
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- GROUP Contractors collected two awards for construction excellence at a Louisiana building industry ceremony. Yep, we see you lookin' fly, past Gulf Coast Chapter president Gerard Chenevert!
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- Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction led the team that won the 2023 Most Outstanding Project by Utah Construction & Design Magazine. The I-80/I-215 Renewed initiative eases traffic congestion in the Salt Lake City suburbs. Gerhart Cole Inc. was a critical member on the construction roster, providing dynamic pile testing and vibration monitoring.
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- Weeks Marine, Inc. is #1 topping the ENR Top 400 Contractors list for Marine & Ports Facilities.
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- Aggregate Technologies, Inc. won the Merit Award for its work on a Louisiana bridge replacement project.
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- ESP Associates, Inc. is part of the team building South Carolina's first public school funded by Impact Fees. Scott Childers, Ryan Turner and Matthew Reiking helped break ground.
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- Dewberry contributed to the renovation of the 100+-year-old building, now home of OSF HealthCare HQ in Peoria, IL; the National Trust for Historic Preservation has awarded the work.
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- PND Engineers, Inc. was on the construction roster for the new Maritime Innovation Center at Fisherman's Terminal in Seattle, winner of the Holcim Silver Award for North America.
Acquisitions & expansions:
- DFI Piling, a Canadian-based piling supplier and installer, has entered into partnership with Alberta's Fort McMurray 468 First Nation to help build the expansive Indigenous community.
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- Orion Marine Group has a big footprint in Louisiana, having delivered projects there for nearly a century. New in 2024, it opens a New Orleans office, increasing accessibility in the Bayou State.
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- Bull Moose Tube provides a time-lapse, video tour of its anticipated, cutting-edge manufacturing facility that recently came online in Sinton, TX, near Corpus Christi.
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- Dewberry opens a new, full-service office near Pittsburgh, giving it a third PA location.
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- UES rebranded in 2023, shortening its name Universal Engineering Sciences, amid surging growth. In December, it announced its acquisition of Texas-based InControl Technologies.
Anniversaries:
- Canal Barge Company, Inc. celebrates 90 years as a family-owned, independent marine transportation company based in New Orleans. Since its 1933 founding by Joseph Merrick Jones, it has grown from one barge acquired for $10K during the Great Depression, to an international marine service provider offering over 800 tank, hopper and deck barges and 43 towboats. President Merritt Lane pledges that its people will continue to make the difference at CBC into the future.
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