Dillingham Construction

Dillingham Construction was an engineering and construction services company last based in Pleasanton, California. The company was founded in the 1880s to build a railroad across the swamps of Oahu, Hawaii. Dillingham later became a leading engineering and construction firm, building dams, airfields, high-rises, hotels and embassies around the world. The company was forced into bankruptcy in 2003 as a result of mounting debt arising from multi million dollar unpaid change orders from a few public entity clients that refused to pay for the extra work. The company planned to reemerge from Chapter 11 in Florida under the name of one its smaller subsidiaries, Watkins Engineers and Constructors.

Notable projects

• One Embarcadero Center
• Grand Hyatt San Francisco
• 44 Montgomery
• 50 California Street
• BC Place
• US Embassy, Singapore
• US Embassy, Moscow
• Sakkara Air Base
• Izmir Motorway Project
• Hilton Hawaiian Village
• Ala Moana Shopping Center
• Los Angeles Emergency Operations Center

References

• Yardley, Paul T. "Millstones and Milestones: The Career of B. F. Dillingham" (1981, University of Hawaii Press).
• Bobby N. Harmon (18 November 2008). "The Dirty Dillies of Dillingham Corporation". The Catbird Seat. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
• Christina M. Stansell (2006). "Dillingham Construction Corporation". International Directory of Company Histories. The Gale Group, Inc. Answers.com. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
• Carolyn Said (February 6, 2003). "Construction giant files bankruptcy, plans to move / Pleasanton's Dillingham will shrink amid public works legal morass". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
• "Company Overview of Dillingham Construction Corporation". Businessweek. 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
• Paul Rosta (10 February 2003). "Dillingham Files for Bankruptcy". Engineering News Record. Retrieved 9 August 2012.

External links

• Official website