From its humble beginnings in 1967, when construction teams were mustered at the owner’s home, to being ranked 254th on ENR’s Top 400 Contractors list in 2015, Indianapolis contractor Bowen Engineering Corp. has grown strategically while playing to its strengths.
Mechanical contractor Murphy Co. established a Colorado office in the 1980s to build the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Fort Collins. That project was a natural fit for the now 100-year-old, St. Louis-based mechanical contracting firm, as it was already working for the brewer in Missouri.
Two recent projects for helicopter hangars on U.S. military bases, one in Colorado and one in Kentucky, offer examples of how out-of-the-box thinking about crane design can overcome some big construction obstacles.
Squeezing work on 12 bridges and numerous ramps into 18 months and just over a mile of congested urban corridor, the Colorado Dept. of Transportation is wrapping up a $98-million project along the busy U.S. 6 corridor in Denver.
Photo by Fred Fuhrmeister, Time Frame Images CEO Bruce Young says Brundage-Bone is refocusing its energy in two key areas: "our employees and our customers." The country’s largest concrete pumping company is riding high.After a rocky few years, Brundage-Bone Concrete Pumping—headquartered in Denver with offices in 16 states—is projecting to wrap up 2015 with $135 million in revenue. That’s a healthy comeback after the firm’s annual receipts dropped from $220 million in 2007 to $80 million in 2011 at the height of the recession, says Bruce Young, the firm’s president and CEO.He says that Brundage leads the nation’s concrete pumping