With so many firms competing for available professional staff, successful recruitment often comes down to achieving the right personality fit between employee and company.
Like the maestro of a Wagnerian opera, Michael Marchesano conducted a chorus of 400 workers, 19 concrete pumps, 208 mixers and eight batch plants to perform a 19.5-hour continuous concrete placement for the Wilshire Grand Center's foundation.
Contractors regularly fret over jobsite safety, but few have faced the challenges Peter Willmott met in bringing his workforce home in one piece from Antarctica, where even summer temperatures plummet to -25° C and howling winds create white-out conditions.
Photographer George E. Baker Jr. uses the artful backdrop of a nautically themed mural to echo the action taking place in the foreground during concrete placement at 101 Polk in San Francisco. Baker shot the scene at around 1:00 a.m. with an ultra-wide angle lens using illumination from the jobsite's light towers. San Francisco-based Pacific Structures (a division of Build Group) is constructing the residential building, which will rise 13 floors and hide the mural. Pacific Structures is also performing the concrete work. Photo by Golden State Photographic Submitted By: Build Group, San Francisco Related Links: ENR California Construction Project
Using fast-tracked delivery, crews took only 17 months to construct a 340,000-sq-ft casino that includes a 9,000-sq-ft events center and more than a dozen eateries, along with more than 70 acres of site infrastructure improvements.
As one of the largest sewage treatment plants in the U.S., the Robert B. Diemer facility delivers 520 million gallons of water per day to Orange and Los Angeles counties, or enough water to fill the Rose Bowl every four hours.
Atascadero City Hall was hit by a 6.5-magnitude earthquake in 2003. The upper rotunda twisted independently from the rest of the building, causing perimeter walls to peel away from the building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Intensive preconstruction planning and the use of specialists in historic restoration are credited with the successful revitalization of a faded Hollywood icon.
To complete the $43-million renovation and expansion of the landmark Riverside Convention Center, workers logged more than 200,000 hours of labor with no lost-time accidents.
