Dillingham Construction

In 1902, Walter F. Dillingham founded the Hawaiian Dredging and Construction Co.. Walter's son, Lowell Dillingham, led the company in 1961, overseeing a merger a year earlier between the Hawaiian Dredging and Construction Co. and the Oahu Railway and Land Company in order to form the public Dillingham Corporation. In the 1960s the company started to expand internationally. Dillingham became a leading engineering and construction firm, building dams, airfields, high-rises, hotels and embassies around the world. The company was sold to private investors in 1983, for $347 million USD. In 1986, Dillingham's new owners began selling many of the company's subsidiaries in order to relieve its debt load. == Controversy ==

The company had a series of issues in the county of San Francisco in the 1970s, and the county of Los Angeles in the early 2000s; with claims of over-billing, poor construction, onsite racism, and misrepresentation of minority involvement. == Notable projects ==

in 1959 • Pearl Harbor dry docks (1909), Oahu, Hawaii • Grand Hyatt San Francisco (1972), Embarcadero, San Francisco, California • North East MRT Line Outram Park station and tunnelling works to HarbourFront station, Singapore • US Embassy, Singapore • US Embassy, Moscow • Sakkara Air Base • Tahoe Keys, California • Los Angeles Emergency Operations Center, Los Angeles, California == References ==