Case Studies

While studying marketing at the New York Institute of Technology, John Tortorella spent his summers cleaning and installing swimming pools on Long Island. At the time, it was just a way to pocket some extra cash. John says he had no plans to turn it into a career. In fact, when he graduated in 1981, […]

For more than 32 years, James G. Staat Tuckpointing & Waterproofing Inc. has been preserving and renovating structures, including historical landmarks, throughout Missouri and Illinois. Specializing in tuckpointing, water repellants, joint sealing, graffiti removal and brick cleaning, Staat Tuckpointing guarantees its workmanship. Preserving with aplomb Staat Tuckpointing was founded by James Staat in 1984 with […]

For over 65 years, JJ Curran Crane Company has been responsible for much of the heavy lifting in southeastern Michigan. As Detroit’s largest crane rental and lifting equipment company, JJ Curran Crane’s sales staff and operating engineers have erected bridges across the Flint River, assisted in renovating the Detroit Free Press Building and set up […]

“The first good part about my story is that my father taught me how to work from a young age,” says Brandon Jett, owner of Jett Builders, a custom-home building and remodeling company in Tallahassee, Florida. When Jett was a kid, his father bought a piece of property outside of Tallahassee with two large tobacco […]

While installing massive refrigeration units known as chillers, for Providence Hospital in Mobile, Alabama, James B. Donaghey Inc. Mechanical Contractors ran into a roadblock. The firm needed to connect the chillers on one side of a street to the hospital HVAC system on the other—the trouble was, they didn’t want to disrupt traffic and add […]

What do you do when a small buffalo herd appears on the property you are managing? Joan Magill remembers asking herself this question when nine buffalo escaped from a nearby farm and started running through one of the communities her company manages. This is just one story from Magill’s upcoming book, “Condolirious”, in which she […]

Anyone can dig a hole. But what about relocating an active, 12-inch sewer main through a downtown area, or carving out space for a foundation between an active football stadium and a baseball field? That takes practice, and J. Masterson Construction has 35 years of practice. As J. Masterson Construction, a second-generation, family-owned site development company […]

Opened in February 2015, JW Marriott Austin is the largest JW Marriott hotel in North America in terms of number of guest rooms at 1,012. At 1.2 million square feet, this 34-story facility has become a leading choice in downtown Austin luxury hotels. The construction of JWMA was a three-and-half-year project managed by Hunt Construction […]

Located in the fast-growing Dallas-Fort Worth area, Jefferson Center is a multifamily residential development by JPI. A three-story Class A development situated on 30 acres in Richardson, Texas, Jefferson Center features 360 walk-up style units spread across 12 distinct buildings. As the nation’s second fastest-growing metropolitan area with more than 140,000 new residents since 2015, […]

For more than 27 years JW Zunino Landscape Architecture (JWZ) has been one of the top landscape architecture, land planning and environmental design firms in the western U.S. Since forming in 1989, the firm has been using drip irrigation, native and indigenous plants to create beautiful, highly functional outdoor spaces that balance environmental sensitivity and […]