Peter Sanderson was looking at a sea-link project in India when he heard about the Minneapolis Interstate 35W bridge collapse on Aug. 1, 2007. He knew immediately that he would not stay in India: “I believed surely there would be a lot of work to do in the U.S.”
Not long after, Flatiron Construction Corp., Longmont, Colo., called upon Sanderson to lead the design-build team with Manson Construction Co. and designer Figg Engineering Group that would vie for, and win, the $234-million fast-track contract to rebuild the bridge.