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1928- We constructed one of Ford Motor Company’s first assembly plants in Detroit.
- We constructed the first mass-transit system in South America—the Lacroze Subway in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- As part of the Six Companies joint venture, we constructed the Hoover Dam—two years ahead of schedule.
- We completed construction of five enormous piers supporting the west end of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
- We participated in the war effort that produced hundreds of "Victory" and "Liberty" cargo ships at California and Oregon shipyards.
- We completed improvements to the San Francisco Airport creating an additional 400 acres of new land for runway extensions.
- We completed the construction of a vast military communications system in Alaska known by its code name, "White Alice." <
- We our work at Ripple Rock at Vancouver Island, British Columbia included staging one of the largest non-atomic explosions in history.
- We constructed 550 heavily fortified Minutemen silos as part of America's strategic defense system during the Cold War.
- We built the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida—the world's largest building by volume at the time.
- We built the Holland Pipeline, an 81-mile long natural gas line in the Netherlands.
- We were responsible for the construction of the U.S. embassy in Saigon, port and harbor developments, airfields, roads and bridges, hospitals and other key facilities.
- We built major segments of the Washington D.C. Metro along with long-term engineering services in the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit System.
- We built the world's longest DC power transmission line across 1,000 miles of jungle in central Africa.
- We constructed the most challenging section of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline—153 miles north from the Port of Valdez.
- As part of a joint-venture operation we erected the monorail and built the highway linking Disney World and Epcot Center. We also installed subsurface utilities at Epcot Center.
- We helped build Chicago's massive subterranean storm water storage system.
- We completed the construction of the artificial islands in Norman Wells Canada. The islands provide platforms for oil drilling beneath the Mackenzie River in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
- We completed the construction of over 82 miles of pipeline along the Panama Canal. The pipeline provides a means to transport crude oil from Pacific Ocean tankers too large for the Panama Canal to tankers in the Caribbean.
- We completed construction of the ductwork and other features required for the U.S. Air Force's Aeropropulsion Test Facility, a highly advanced jet engine testing complex in Tennessee.
- We completed the first decommissioning of a commercial nuclear power plant in the U.S. at Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
- We completed construction on the tunnel section on the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel project in Virginia.
- As program manager and constructor, we completed the Saturn Plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
- We completed construction of the Cartersville Brewery for Anheuser-Busch.
- We managed the construction of the Boeing Plant in Tacoma, Washington.
- We completed the highly complex J-6 Jet Engine Test Facility at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee.
- We completed the construction of the Cheops Pump Station in Cairo, Egypt geared toward upgrading Cairo’s wastewater treatment system. The facility received its name from the magnificent views of the Cheops Pyramids in the background.
- We completed construction of the Ted Williams Tunnel in Boston.
- We built the Glaxo-Wellcome pharmaceutical research campus—one of the largest building projects in England.
- We completed the construction of British Airways' World Cargocentre at London's Heathrow Airport.
- We served as program manager for the design and construction of the $2.7 billion Denver International Airport.
- Under the largest design-build project ever in the United States, we completed reconstruction of Interstate 15 through Salt Lake City, Utah. The completion of the project decreased transportation time for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
- We completed the retrofit of the San Mateo Bridge in San Francisco Bay to withstand earthquakes.
- We completed the reconstruction of the General Motors Plant in Oklahoma City plant. The tornado-ravaged plant was returned to production within seven weeks.
Present Day
- Our scientists have worked on space projects including the Mars Rover and the New Horizons spacecraft designed to cross the solar system and study Pluto.
- We designed and installed the first "dirty bomb" detection system for the Department of Defense.