MENU CECO Concrete Construction ABOUT CECO CECO’S DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION SERVICES DELIVER VALUE TO YOUR PROJECT Ceco’s Leadership Team is committed to safety, entrepreneurial in nature, innovative and creative through teamwork and employee development—all while instilling integrity and open, honest, ethical business practices. Danny Battles – President Before arriving at Ceco, Danny Battles earned a Bachelor of Science degree in construction management from Oklahoma State University. For more than 30 years, he has served Ceco in various roles and levels of responsibility. His tenure has seen assignments to Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix, Dallas, New Orleans and now San Antonio for the past 12-plus years. Learning from the local teams with each move, he developed a keen eye on cost and efficiency while growing his leadership and organizational skills. Danny looks forward to leading Ceco into its next chapter: “We have a strong team in place to help us achieve our mission of leading the construction industry in the delivery on innovative, client-focused, structural solutions that provide exceptional client results.” Read more Jeff Riesberg – Executive Vice President Jeff Riesberg began his career with Ceco in 1983, upon graduation from Iowa State with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. Later he obtained an MBA from Rockhurst University. Since then he has worked many positions, from Project Manager to Regional Vice President. In his current role as Executive Vice President, Jeff oversees the innovation efforts of the company with responsibilities for Engineering, Innovation, Manufacturing and Equipment. He also provides direction for the training and development of our talented staff. Seeing that all local teams are provided the tools, equipment and training needed to fulfill our client commitments is his mission. He is a past chairman of the Builders’ Association, the Kansas City Chapter of Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), and remains active in AGC and other construction organizations. Jeff has a passion for building. Read more Phil Diekemper – Senior Vice President As a structural engineer fresh out of the University of Illinois in 1977, Phil Diekemper embarked on a career filled with interesting challenges and moves. These include time in Seattle, Southern California, New Jersey and the past 20-plus years in Chicago. That’s not to mention a three-year assignment in Singapore for Ceco Far East shortly after receiving his MBA from Seattle University. He has always accepted the Ceco challenges, applying his unique problem-solving and team-building skills. Phil enjoys building relationships within Ceco as well as more broadly throughout the industry. Today, he continues to be active as Ceco’s ambassador with national organizations, including AGC, American Concrete Institute – Strategic Development Council, American Society of Concrete Contractors, Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute and Urban Land Institute. With his vast project and organizational assignments, Phil spreads Ceco’s culture by coaching and mentoring Ceco’s leaders of the future. He also guides Ceco’s marketing and social media efforts. Read more Lori Robey Ernst – Vice President & CFO Lori Robey Ernst joined Ceco as Tax Accountant in 1995. Shortly thereafter, she received her CPA license from the Missouri State Board of Accounting. Sporting a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Kansas State University and 10 years of industry experience prior to joining Ceco, Lori has ascended quickly—taking on additional responsibilities until reaching her current CFO leadership role in 2018. As a trusted member of Ceco’s leadership, Lori is admired for her commitment to Ceco and attention to detail. Lori’s leadership exemplifies many of Ceco’s values, like Teamwork, Integrity and Ethics. James Paquin – Vice President, Central Operations Jim Paquin is an unpretentious civil engineer from the University of Wisconsin who continues to enjoy construction by influencing and inspiring others. His team reflects his personality, demonstrating a commitment to serving one another and fostering a culture of innovation. In a career spanning nearly four decades, Jim has managed many Ceco projects, teams and locations, from the Gulf Coast to the Canadian border and from the Rocky Mountains to Indiana. Notable projects include Music City Center in Nashville, Tenn., in which the team successfully poured 120,000 yards in a 12-month period. Whether organizing a team to build the U.S. Bank Stadium or to prepare a shore lunch together, Jim gets great satisfaction in watching team members build relationships and strengthen their commitment to each other as they work together to overcome obstacles, provide exceptional results and create some lasting memories along the way. Read more Tom Wood – Vice President, East Operations With a formal civil engineering education from The Citadel: The Military College of South Carolina, Tom Wood joined Ceco in 2001 after working for a year at an engineering consulting firm. Starting as Concrete Construction Engineer, Tom’s rapid rise within Ceco has led him to taking on the role of Vice President of Eastern Operations. He’s been key to Ceco’s transformation from a concrete formwork subcontractor to today’s heavily weighted concrete frame scope. Tom has always been competitive, and he played for The Citadel Bulldogs collegiate football team. That competitive drive has brought Ceco and his clients many successful projects. Today, his focus is to build strong teams in the Eastern United States that are motivated to exceed customer expectations and grow professionally to achieve their individual career goals. Read more Shayne Yeisley – Vice President, West Operations Shayne’s 25-year career began with Ceco, working out of our Seattle and Portland offices once he finished his Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from University of Missouri – Rolla. His Ceco path took him to Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas and Miami, until he finally settled in Denver. Then, after Ceco’s parent acquired a competitor in Denver—Concrete Frame Associates (CFA)—he became President of that company. Under his leadership at CFA, revenue jumped more than 300% and scopes expanded to include reinforcing installation and shotcrete services. Today, Shayne leads Ceco’s West Operations. He seeks to expand Ceco’s presence in the West and become a key integral partner to our clients’ success. Read more Ron Sears – Director, Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Ron Sears is a certified safety professional with more than 29 years of experience in EHS. Before he came to Ceco in 2019, he was Business Unit EHS Director for Turner Construction. He has expert knowledge in EHS safety management systems, behavior-based safety, injury and incident management, identification of safety system gaps and implementation of effective solutions. As Director of EHS for Ceco, Ron’s goals are to include the field team’s safety engagement early in the project planning process and enhance the partnership of Ceco’s safety professionals with operations and project teams. He’d like to see consistent application of standard safety operating procedures, which helps Ceco cultivate trust and confidence with our clients and a positive image with project owners and in the community. Ron believes Ceco’s safety culture can establish ourselves as a desired employer. In his spare time, Ron enjoys hiking, walking, golfing and other sports, reading, cooking and traveling. As the nation’s leading design-assist structural concrete contractor, Ceco’s primary goal is helping our clients, owners and end users build the highest-performing structures possible with the least amount of initial and operational cost in the shortest amount of time. We are driven by an experienced leadership team and inspired by collaboration and the innovative solutions that teaming produces, and we take this mindset into each and every project we are invited to consult on or construct, regardless of delivery method. We hold integrity as a key core value, which is one of the primary reasons we’ve been an industry leader since 1912. Ceco is a both a formwork and full-frame structural concrete contractor that actively employs design professionals and encourages creativity, successfully leveraging more than 100 years of experience with front-line innovation and technology, such as BIM (Building Information Modeling), to consistently provide clients, owners and end users the highest quality outcome with the least possible risk. Ceco’s national resources and local presence provide support from schematic design through top-out of cast-in-place concrete structures. With Ceco as the concrete contractor on site, general contractors and developers have a dependable design partner that can provide a firm schedule at a known cost and back it up in the field. Ceco has offices throughout the United States, from Seattle to Miami, ready to help you with your project needs. Our local presence provides you convenient immediate access to a nationwide network of resources that can be applied to any region or project at any time. With extensive national engineering, formwork manufacturing and field resources at your disposal, there is nothing you cannot build with Ceco anywhere, anytime. Ceco Team Placing Wide Module Pans While we are a concrete contractor, we know that concrete isn’t always the right choice for a project and we certainly wouldn’t suggest that it is. We haven’t kept the doors open since 1912 by making self-serving suggestions—we believe in identifying the best possible outcome for our clients and partners, and we will always provide you with quality objective information regarding your project. Contact us early in conceptual or schematic phases to take advantage of our “free-con” services. We’re always happy to provide more than a century of insight and experience to your project’s constructability review and structural system selection, and we enjoy saving our clients millions of dollars each year by doing so. If you’re looking for a concrete contractor and project partner with unmatched experience, a holistic approach and a proven track record of integrity, Ceco has the team for you in your region: Ceco Concrete Construction, LLC is one of several companies comprising the Heico Construction Group—a group of companies owned by the parent holding company Heico. which also owns organizations in its three other platforms: Ancra Group, Heico Metal Processing Group, and Pettibone L.L.C. Heico is privately held and maintains majority ownership in each of its operations. In aggregate, Heico’s businesses generate more than $2 billion in revenues. As a result of its diversity of operations and conservative capital structure, Heico has continuously maintained an investment grade rating with Standard and Poor’s since 1997. LET'S TALK We are a design-assist structural concrete contractor actively collaborating with several industry partners to identify better ways to build smarter, high performance structures - buildings that live with integrated systems and low life cycle impacts that can be built for less. LEARN MORE VISION, VALUES & MISSION WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE VALUE AND WHAT GUIDES US. VISION Lead the construction industry in the delivery of innovative, client-focused structural solutions. VALUES The safety, well-being and development of our employees Openness, honesty and respect Teamwork Integrity and Ethics Fulfilling all Commitments Entrepreneurial Spirit Innovation MISSION Be a client-centric, single-source solution for concrete structures. Be unwavering in our commitment to the safety, health and development of our employees by providing a work environment defined by openness, honesty and respect; whereby employees, individually and collectively, are dedicated to exceptional workmanship, professional integrity and extraordinary service. Combine the resources of a large company with the spirit of a small one while embracing innovation at all levels—and measuring success by the outcome rather than the process. SAFETY, QUALITY, PRODUCTIVITY Many contractors claim to adhere to safety, quality and productivity, but few walk the talk like Ceco does. "SQP" is a mantra that has reverberated through our staff for years - these three tenets are core values that we strive to improve each and every day. MORE + HISTORY Like most great businesses that have been around for more than 100 years, it all started for Ceco as a concrete contractor with one man's great idea - an idea to build more efficiently that is still as relevant today as it ever has been. MORE + LOCATIONS With locations throughout the United States Ceco can be your local concrete contractor for any project. Our national resources and manufacturing facility allow us to apply labor and materials to any location that needs them, keeping our crews busy and our clients happy. MORE + WHAT OUR CLIENTS ARE SAYING BALFOUR BEATTY “Ceco’s detailing team deserves recognition—their design review resulted in multiple RFIs for drawing corrections and re-coordination of an area. They quickly reacted to maintain the project schedule. And, the embed process is proceeding very smoothly. I appreciate Ceco’s attention to detail and their true partnership in spotting areas of concern and asking the right questions at the right time.” ROBINS & MORTON “We would like to thank Ceco Concrete for the amazing performance they gave to complete the concrete work for South Texas Health System Edinburg RMC. Ceco shortened our original concrete duration and fought through an abnormal amount of rainfall to deliver the structure on time. They accomplished this with no significant injuries and did an outstanding job with quality. The team [General Superintendent Mike Schautteet, Project Superintendent Francisco Urrutia, Project Manager Kenneth Mack, Engineer Floyd Golding, BIM Technician Vincent Casas, Regional Safety Manager David Harris] appeared to be an "A" team from Ceco. We gave Ceco a 100% customer satisfaction rating. It would be our pleasure to work with Ceco again, and we look forward to the experience.” Dusty Gallas, Lead Project Superintendent; Jeremiah Lagalo, Project Manager J.H. FINDORFF & SON INC. “Ceco Concrete was a strategic partner for Treehouse/JH Findorff on the Hub IV project in Tucson. Ceco jumped into the project bringing their expertise and solutions to the table to plan out the project together on a tight budget. Ceco Project Manager Arnoldo Valenzuela's readiness to collaborate and focus on planning, communication and fostering a team mentality were key aspects that allowed the concrete structure to be delivered ahead of schedule. Our entire team appreciates Ceco's people, regional knowledge and efforts, and we look forward to working with Ceco again on the next project.” Ben Hager, Senior Project Manager Next Prev ABOUT CECO We are experienced industry leaders, valued design-assist partners, proactive thinkers, innovators and the best concrete contractors you will find. 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