by Mike Grant | Sep 4, 2026
There’s a hammer hanging in the lobby with a piece of PVC and duct tape where the handle should be. “We could not afford a new hammer.” Chris Coghlan sits down with Ben Burgess, P.E., founder of Burgess Civil, who started in June 2014 with a tiny bit...
by Mike Grant | Aug 27, 2026
Six years after he resigned his commission, a Western Union mailgram told Michael Waldrop to report for Afghanistan in 30 days. He was wounded three weeks in, talked his way back onto a helicopter, and finished the tour. Today, he builds facilities that serve the...
by Mike Grant | Aug 27, 2026
The best job FINFROCK ever lost ended up being the one that gave the company time to rethink how parking garages should be built. What followed was a decades-long transition from precast concrete subcontractor to a fully integrated design-build firm. Chris Coghlan...
by Mike Grant | Aug 27, 2026
Five straight All-Pro seasons ended on one Monday night hit in December 1987. The nerve never regenerated. Four years later Dwight Stephenson started a construction company with his wife, and stocked the drywall himself. Chris Coghlan sits down with Pro Football Hall...
by Mike Grant | Aug 27, 2026
An estimator took the roads off on the wrong scale — a $1 million bust in asphalt and rock. Wal-Rose Site Development ate it, finished the job, and told the builder at the final walkthrough. Chris Coghlan sits down with Jeremy Griffin, VP and third-generation owner of...
