11 Mar Shimmick Celebrates Women in Construction
Shimmick, and the construction industry as a whole, celebrated the 25th annual Women in Construction (WIC) Week March 5-11. ...
Author: Tonya Sandman
22 Mar Shimmick Wins $357M Contract for San Diego Water Treatment Plant
As part of the PURE program to upgrade San Diego’s water treatment system, the City has awarded Shimmick a $357 million contract to construct a new North City Pure Water Facility. This new state-of-the-art facility will treat San Diego’s recycled water (currently used for irrigation)...
01 Nov Shimmick’s Focus on Customer Journey Mapping
Tolling agencies are looking for better ways to understand their customers’ experiences as part of their continued improvement initiatives. Shimmick’s O&M division believes focusing on the customer experience is fundamental to building a strong brand and implementing technologies and processes that deliver an excellent customer...
13 Oct LaGrange Reaches Major Milestone in Challenging, Single Closure Period
On October 13, 2020, the $117 million LaGrange Lock and Dam Rehabilitation project, between Jacksonville and Beardstown, Illinois, reached a major milestone: opening to Illinois River traffic after being closed for 15 weeks. “The LaGrange Major Rehab/Major Maintenance is the single largest construction contract ever executed...
05 Oct Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement is Now Open to Traffic
Today, October 5, 2020, the new Long Beach bridge is open to traffic. This $1.47 billion project included the signature cable-stayed span replaces the adjacent Gerald Desmond arch bridge that connected the Port of Long Beach with the mainland for more than half a century....
01 Oct Shimmick’s Approach to Five-Star Quality
Quality is a word that’s often overused and often underdelivered. That’s because many quality programmes are shrouded in a veil of vagueness with no semblance of qualification. Why is that? Embracing the principles of Lean Six Sigma, a company can employ methodologies proven...
26 Sep Shimmick Named Among Largest Contractors in the U.S. by Engineering News Record
Shimmick, the civil construction division of AECOM, has been named the third largest dam contractor in the U.S. by Engineering News Record. Shimmick is currently constructing numerous dam projects across the U.S., including the LaGrange Lock and Dam Rehabilitation in Illinois and the Chickamauga Lock...
11 Sep Shimmick wins $60M contract to construct flood protection in Foster City
Shimmick Construction secured a new contract for flood protection improvements in Foster City, about 30 minutes south of San Francisco. The $60 Million project consists of completing a series of flood protection improvements, including steel sheet pile, and concrete floodwalls adjacent to San Francisco Bay,...
11 Sep Message from the President: Remembering 9/11
On this day 19 years ago, we suffered devastating attacks that changed not only our country, but the world. Closer to home, our team lost 13 colleagues from Washington Group International on that day. WGI is one of many legacy companies that now make up the...
31 Jul Working in the Epicenter of COVID-19
The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail line transports 55,000 people a day for New Jersey Transit near Jersey City, New Jersey, to get to work, school, shopping centers, downtown Jersey City, and across the water to Manhattan and beyond. Twenty-First Century Rail Group, a joint venture between Shimmick...