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Removing Big Steel and Delivering Dramatic Change in a Bustling Office Lobby

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 […]

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On the Job Site – May 2018

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, […]

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Community

Women at Work: Plano-Coudon Staff Advocate for More Women in Construction

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 […]

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Press Releases

Plano-Coudon Names Mike Kovacs Director of Preconstruction

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 […]

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Guinness Project Sets New Standards for Job-Site Safety

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 […]

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Towson University Residence Tower Project Team Overcomes Creeping Concrete, Failing Column and Other Challenges

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 […]

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