Digging into the multi-million-dollar lobby renovation at 100 S Charles Street, members of the Plano-Coudon project team faced two prime challenges. Working at the base of a 21-story office tower, the team would have to execute structural changes, including the removal of a 300-pound-per-foot steel beam. They would also have to complete the sweeping, 10-month […]
Recent Contract Wins Hord Coplan Macht Office Relocation – 33,796 SF demolition & renovation of 12th floor of 700 East Pratt Street for new offices of Hord Coplan Macht. CCBC Essex Vet Building – Interior alterations for 8,000 SF of CCBC’s veterinary technology program. BWMC OR 18 Renovation – Renovate operating room to include demolition, […]
Man’s best kept secret. That’s how some female employees at Plano-Coudon describe their careers in the construction industry. Old stereotypes and outright obstacles to women in construction have diminished over time. Yet across the country, women still comprise just over 9 percent of the construction industry labor force. Advocates for women in construction – including […]
After a months-long, wide-ranging candidate search, Plano-Coudon is pleased to announce that we have hired our first Director of Preconstruction Services. Mike Kovacs – a 15-year employee of Plano-Coudon – has stepped into this new leadership role. “We are excited because Mike brings a wealth of skills to this position,” Brett Plano said. A graduate […]
From pedestrian walkways and platform ladders to giveaways of gift cards and Yeti coolers, a hybrid safety program at the Guinness construction site in Baltimore Country is generating some new standards for safe construction practices. Representatives from Plano-Coudon and Diageo, owner of the Guinness brand, began crafting the enhanced safety plan as they prepared to […]
Horizontal bands of red and gray paneling paired with vertical columns of windows that stretch all the way to a high-rise rooftop turned a university residence into a dramatic feature on Towson’s skyline. But creating those precise, parallel lines on a structure that had suffered four decades of “concrete creep” presented the Plano-Coudon project team […]