As Bob Sirut pulls on to the job site for one of his last times, he cannot help but think about his almost 40 years in construction. Soon he will be retiring. It seems like just a few years ago that he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Soon after that he got his first internship on a construction job site. He is still amazed at how today’s job site and the construction industry have changed.
Just look at his current project—this state-of-the-art data and research facility for the new software division of the Construction Technology Institute will rival the greatest level of technology in any building in the world. And completing this 350,000 square meter project with a seven month construction schedule would have been impossible prior to the new construction processes employed on this job site. It is almost humorous to think that even metric measurement on job sites was unimaginable years ago.