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A lot of people feel like they never leave their jobs, but the reality is that for all the long hours they spend on the job, they still go home to their families at the end of the day. At Burdick Excavating Company Inc. owners Linda and Randy Burdick are so dedicated to providing comprehensive […]

PPMI Construction Company (PPMI) was originally incorporated in 1986 as Precision Piping and Mechanical Inc., a union pipe trades and mechanical contractor. The company has since grown from providing a wide variety of mechanical contracting services to additionally offering electrical contracting and general construction services to serve automotive, heavy industrial, utility and institutional sectors across […]

Phoenix Industries LLC (PI) is an environmental solutions company and worldwide leader for innovations in waste tire recycling processes and new technologies for asphalt rubber paving. The company was originally founded in 1988 as Phoenix Environmental Services. Roughly five years ago, PI transitioned to focus solely on tire recycling and asphalt rubber plants. “I came […]

Few companies can pride themselves on “liking the real tough projects,” but Pickering Firm Inc. principal Marc Rubenstein, serving 25 years with the firm, emphasizes that the company differentiates itself from competitors by embracing “large manufacturing and industrial projects that require a high degree of complicated engineering.” Founded in 1946 by O.L. Pickering after the […]

The Block Building sits near the northernmost tip of Brooklyn, on an unassuming block of the industrious Greenpoint neighborhood. With its granite, steely façade it’s not a flashy building, but it’s solid. And from its location the Block Building offers fast, uncomplicated access to the ever-changing Manhattan skyline that gleams in the background. The Block […]

E.D. Swett Inc. (EDS) was founded by Everett David Swett in 1936. Based out of Concord, N.H., the company specializes in heavy and highway construction with a special focus on bridge building, pile-driving, cofferdams and earth retention systems. “We consider ourselves to be bridge builders and we specialize in taking on the jobs that are […]

Ritchie-Curbow Construction Company Inc. is a classic example of a company that has sustained the ups and downs of the market by offering clients super customer service. The Virginia-based company was founded in 1973 by Joe Ritchie and Gary Curbow on the premise that treating clients like partners would help grow a customer base. Ritchie […]

It’s a promise that has been handed down from generation to generation of Americans: If you work hard, success will come in the end. Sonny Tresco, owner of Pittsburgh, Pa.-based Tresco Paving, did exactly just that and is living the American Dream. “When I started Tresco in 1973, my first job was patching potholes at […]

Atlas Services Corporation (Atlas) is a family-owned site development and excavation contracting company located about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pa., in a little town called Eighty Four, Pa. There’s nothing little about Atlas, however. The company employs roughly 50 employees year-round and adds another 25 or so when the warmer weather leads to more […]