Superintendent’s Uncommon Sense Yields Extra-Productive Work Force
The sign on the office door of the 37-year construction veteran credited with keeping Chicago’s 2.3-million-sq-ft convention center expansion ahead of schedule reads, “COMMON SENSE IS NOT QUITE COMMON.” It might as well say: “Enter at Your Own Risk.”
The atmosphere around Joe Salerno, the 60-year-old vice president of field operations for Mc4West LLC, is tense, yet open. “I never kept secrets from him,” says Bill Hanson, vice president of steel erector Danny’s Construction Co. Inc. of Gary, Ind.