• Relationship Building In Chicagoland

    • Allyson Markey

    Patrick Marshall, the President of Viking Roofing & Construction Corp. (VRCC), never thought he would own a roofing construction company. Patrick, or Pat as his friends and family call him, had spent most of his professional life in manufacturing for large international companies, including Dow Chemical Company and Armstrong World Industries. After corporate America, he entered Chicago’s competitive real estate market. Buying a 43-year old company in Chicago’s construction market was not part of the plan.   read more...

  • Inventing 
New Solutions 
in Lighting

    • Tiffanie Reynolds

    In 1986, Alfred Wall Jr. recognized a growing problem—as computer use was becoming widespread, so was glare from computer screens and monitors. He devised a solution in the form of a clever design called a louver, which is a grid type of optical assembly used to control light distribution. He knew this device could make for more ergonomically friendly work and learning spaces using a retrofit solution where existing fixtures could utilize upgraded optical patterns.   read more...

  • Bringing Everyone Together

    • Leigh Thomas

    Tim Marabella, Executive Vice President of the Great Lakes Construction Association (GLCA), is passionate about engaging members, building value and finding the construction industry’s next generation of workers.   read more...

  • Passionate About Work

    • Susan Diemont-Conwell

    For the team at Sterling Renaissance, Inc., it’s not enough to make the client happy. They also go above and beyond for the people who use their buildings. During construction of a 98-unit property for senior adults called The Kilpatrick Renaissance, plans outlined that all windows in the handicap-accessible units must open and close with a force no greater than 5 pounds. “The product that meets these specifications is extremely expensive and unreliable, often breaking within a year. I was determined to find a more reliable system,” says Vice President and Senior Project Manager Bruce Sterling.   read more...

  • Tell Us When and Where

    • Tracy Torma

    Mark D. Carroll is a tinkerer. From the time he was a young boy, he was taking things apart to see how they worked. So it’s only natural that his company, ConstructionCAM, was born out of his curiosity to make something new. ConstructionCAM, based in Crown Point, Indiana, offers solar-powered mobile trailers that provide live construction cameras, LED lights, Wi-Fi and time-lapse videos for job site security and progress management.   read more...

  • Strength in Unity

    • Erica Bender

    There is strength in numbers. Many people have heard this age-old cliché, which suggests there is greater power or security when many individuals or organizations join a single cause. One could also interpret this adage to mean there is strength in unity—a compelling prospect for those working in the sometimes disjointed and siloed world of construction.   read more...

  • Pursuing Its Own Destiny

    • Chancellor Page

    Owning a business is the ultimate expression of the American dream—with a caveat. The promise of any successful business may be inspired by possibility and freedom, but its foundation is built day to day in the trenches, from a team committed to hard work and delivering solutions to clients and customers in the community. Ultimately, running a business takes grit and a willingness to do whatever it takes to attract and cultivate in-house talent and create long-lasting relationships with clients.   read more...

  • Local Expertise Global Experience

    • Vicki Speed

    When it comes to the scope and scale of work access as well as forming, shoring and related specialty solutions, few companies—if any—have the inventory of products or the depth of expertise of BrandSafway across the global commercial, infrastructure and industrial markets. At the same time, however, each individual BrandSafway location emphasizes locally based skilled labor and product management teams, delivering the safest and highest level of customer service.   read more...

  • A Bumpy Road to Success

    • Raja Moussaoui

    In 1890, Edmund J. Longyear, a mining engineer from the first graduating class at the Michigan Mining School (now known as Michigan Tech), drilled the first diamond core hole in the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota. To accomplish this feat, he created the tool that would lead to a world-renowned business enterprise, and the catalyst that would come to define Jim Butler’s career.   read more...

  • True to its Name

    • Leigh Thomas

    When Richard Harris, President of Noble Modern Builders LLC, created a name for his firm, he did so with the goal that the name would communicate the company’s values. Those values include integrity, high quality, transparency and dependability (“noble”) and a commitment to world-class best practices in the construction industry (“modern”). That’s how the name Noble Modern Builders was born.   read more...

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