• Working Hard to Make the Dream Happen

    • Carol Scott

    In five years, Lakeway Ironworks has grown from a fabrication shop into an ironworks company that offers design, engineering and installation services. With determination, ingenuity and business savvy, Jorge M. Iriaquez, CEO/Owner of Lakeway Ironworks, spearheads the structural steel fabrication company, based in Leander, Texas, a suburb of Austin. He also serves as CEO/Owner of JMI Steel, a structural steel installation firm and sister company to Lakeway Ironworks. “My dream of owning my own business and succeeding in my work have come to pass,” Iriaquez says.   read more...

  • Focus on Habitational Contracting

    • Marge O'Connor

    Mention affordable housing anywhere in the Carolinas and the WEAVERCOOKE name will typically be part of the conversation. This Greensboro, North Carolina-based company has been designing and building housing wherever it was most needed for more than 80 years. This journey began with filling a need for single-family homes at the end of the Great Depression. In the 1950s, it transitioned to providing multifamily housing for soldiers returning from World War II. Now, the company is focused on responding to the affordable housing crisis.   read more...

  • Projects of All Sizes, Coast to Coast

    • Heather Beal

    Scott Keller, COO of Nationwide Construction Group (Nationwide), a company of Rmd Holdings, Ltd., easily lists the attributes he believes distinguish this Richmond, Michigan-based fencing and guardrail contractor. He says that the core values espoused and exhibited by Robert “Bob” Demil, President and Founder, continue to guide strategic decisions. He also points to a forward-thinking, flexible business model, the firm’s ability to handle projects of all sizes from coast to coast, and the leadership’s focus on empowering people to do their jobs well.   read more...

  • Building Windows on the World

    • C. Grant Jackson

    Rock Hill Glass Co. in Rock Hill, South Carolina, will do anything from cutting and polishing a $6 piece of glass for a mirror to a half-million-dollar job fabricating and installing glass curtain walls in multistory buildings, says Owner and President Chris Maddox. The only thing the full-service glass shop won’t handle is auto glass.   read more...

  • Dedicated to Leading-Edge Demolition

    • Carole Minor

    Owner John Sisto and his late brother, Don, jointly established Dallas Contracting Co., Inc. (Dallas Contracting) in 1987. Based in New Jersey, the company focuses on providing leading-edge demolition services in the tri-state area of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. Tragically, Don Sisto died in a car accident in September 2020. This article is a tribute to him.   read more...

  • Doing Business with Principles

    • Carol Scott

    Electrical power enables the production of most everything we use in our society—from cars to cans, from A-frames to Z Strips. Access Electric, an industrial electrical contractor based near Modesto, California, offers electrical power to agricultural, commercial and industrial clients.   read more...

  • A Centennial Celebration in the Works

    • Carol Scott

    BH Awning in Benton Harbor, Michigan, has fabricated and installed commercial and residential awnings for nearly a century. Jason Krupinski, General Manager/Owner, is the newcomer to this centenarian business. “I recently acquired the company from Marilyn Dill who had co-owned BH Awning with her husband, Chuck, for about 51 years. As far as I know, I am only the third or fourth owner,” Krupinski says.   read more...

  • Providing Comfort and Efficiency

    • Tiffanie Reynolds

    Lending his last name to the “J” in OJ Insulation, L.P., Scott Jenkins co-founded this business to maximize energy efficiency and increase comfort in homes and offices. Established in 1984 in El Monte, California, the company provides insulation services to clients throughout Northern and Southern California. Although the company has divisions that handle installation of ceilings, fireplaces, rain gutters and window coverings, its focus on insulation remains its core business.   read more...

  • The Road to Success

    • Licia Jackson

    Paving roads in the western North Carolina mountains means facing extraordinary challenges. Curving roads can obscure construction workers until the last minute, making safety a major concern. When winter weather sets in in January, paving work must cease until April. And sometimes, a rockslide throws a wrench into a project.   read more...

  • Drywall Specialists Ready to Rock!

    • Carole Minor

    Julio Luna and Guillermo Alcantar, drywall experts and Founders of United Interior Contractors, LLC (UIC Drywall), focus their business on respect and trust as they pursue the American Dream and fulfill their mission of forming communities of service throughout the Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, metropolitan areas.   read more...

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