Shimmick teams with CEC to provide system-wide flood damage reduction benefits to Folsom Dam.Continue Reading

CFX Toll Operations Project Recognized by the Central Florida Safety CouncilContinue Reading

Shimmick, and the construction industry as a whole, celebrated the 25th annual Women in Construction (WIC) Week March 5-11.Continue Reading

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) at the North City Water Reclamation Plant to purified water...Continue Reading

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 experience through efficient operations. Shimmick accomplishes this through its tolling-specific...Continue Reading

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 by the Rock Island District,” said Colonel Steven Sattinger...Continue Reading

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. It is the second-tallest cable-stayed bridge in the U.S. and...Continue Reading

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 to consistently and efficiently deliver a high level of service performance. It’s...Continue Reading

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 and Dam in Tennessee, both for USACE.Continue Reading

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, Belmont Slough, and O’Neill Slough along the existing levee and...Continue Reading