Case Studies:

With careful planning and attention to detail, we deliver unusual results. We work in close partnership with our clients, aggressively pursuing innovative value engineering options and other ideas to improve the end result. Here are a few examples:

Jack Binyon's Horseshoe Casino, Hammond, Indiana

One frigid morning in late-January we began our work on this project as the waves from Lake Michigan crashed against the shore along the edge of the jobsite. On this day, we followed the pile driving contractor and began excavation for the building foundation. Our work continued with foundation construction, concrete construction, and other civil work. Five months later, the casino opened for business.

Millennium Manor, Hammond, Indiana

The not-for-profit developers of this subdivision had several objectives in developing this community of 28 homes: to redevelop an urban site where homes and businesses had been demolished in the 1960's, to complete a residential project using all union labor, and to utilize steel in new and innovative ways. (Northwest Indiana produces one-quarter of the country's steel.)

Our scope of work included clearing and grubbing, storm and sanitary sewer construction, water main, road and curb construction.

The site was filled with buried concrete and underground obstructions. We completed this infrastructure project on-time, on budget, and we developed innovative value engineering options to address the large quantities of broken concrete, significant underground obstructions, and other debris that were excavated during construction.

Today, the subdivision includes homes that are constructed with all steel framing.

GE Plastics, Mt. Vernon, Indiana

GE Plastics is recognized as a leader in safety management with uncompromising safety standards. With four separate manufacturing operations in one plant, each with unusual hazards, no other construction project ever impacted all four operations at one time.

Our scope of work included demolishing the plant roadways, relocating all the underground utilities, concrete and asphalt paving, and constructing a new railroad track on a prefabricated concrete base. The project required unusual coordination to minimize its impact to ongoing manufacturing operations

Here, our ability to self-perform all the trades became a key to the success of the project by giving us an unusual schedule flexibility and control over each phase of the project.