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

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 unbreakable foundation of Shimmick. Many of our Shimmick team...Continue Reading

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 and Kinkisharyo, designs, builds, operates, and maintains 16 miles...Continue Reading

Shimmick, serving as a subcontractor to the joint venture team, is in the final phase of its $70 million structural concrete package for Phase II of the Silver Lake project to construct the Headworks West Reservoir and extend the River Supply Conduit 1A. Safety on the Silver Lake project involved everyone looking out for the...Continue Reading

Shimmick secured a $261 million contract for construction and financing for the new west section of the Gilcrease Expressway project. Shimmick and its partners will construct five miles of new greenfield, four-lane toll road just west of Tulsa. The new expressway will connect L.L. Tisdale to I-44 and complete the Western loop around the Tulsa...Continue Reading