While our industry is making great strides by evolving the delivery of work and incorporating new technologies, there is still a lot of room for improvement—and this becomes increasingly important if we hope to attract new talent and bright minds. It’s no secret that one of our biggest challenges is the labor shortage. Our entire industry needs more people—in the office and in the field, and especially... read more
Skiles Group Wins Bark + Build’s Hot Dog and Top Dog Awards
Skiles Group's Justin Davis, Katayoun Mokhtarzadeh, and Oscar Garcia teamed up with Albert Wang, Junye Zhou, and Jeremy Chen of Perkins & Will for this year’s Bark + Build competition, and their multi-functional creation named "Cave" won the Hot Dog and People's Choice/Top Dog Awards! Bark + Build, in cooperation with TEXO The Construction Association, provides opportunities for architects and... read more
Taking Flight: Helicopter Joins Jobsite Team at The Tom Landry Center
It’s always a fun day at work when we get to do something unique on one of our jobsites! Here’s a quick timelapse showing a Sikorsky S-58T helicopter lifting one of several new rooftop units (RTUs) onto The Tom Landry Center, as part of the second phase of construction for this extensive renovation project. This endeavor took about 20 people, two trade partners, and six months of planning to safely... read more
Celebrating the Season: Our Annual Holiday Fun
Get Festive Friday found us having some fun in the office! The break room was our “Get Festive” HQ, and staff came by to decorate cookies and play reindeer games as “The Grinch” played in the background. Some couldn’t resist sporting their most jolly attire, so we gave away a couple of little prizes, too—congratulations to Billy Geris for winning "Ugliest Sweater" and Lillian Puente for winning... read more
Celebrating the Season: Skiles Group Supports Children’s Advocacy Center
We're so pleased to support The Children's Advocacy Center of Collin County (CAC) as a corporate partner again this year. During the holiday season, the CAC offers gifts to children who receive services at their center or are temporarily living with relatives, in a foster home, or in an in-patient residential treatment center. Our goal was to "adopt" 25 of these kiddos plus one family and grant their Christmas... read more
Teamwork: Raising the Crane at Methodist Richardson
The biggest challenge posed by this 150-foot tower crane installation at Methodist Richardson Medical Center? We did it while keeping the hospital and the ER entrance completely open and accessible. We also had very limited space in which to work—an active emergency room on one side and a 7-story parking garage on the other. It took 12 hours, 18 truckloads, coordination teams from five different companies, and... read more
Skiles Group Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Open House
1972 FUN FACTS: The Cowboys won Super Bowl VI against the Miami Dolphins. A new home cost $30,500, and the average income was $11,859. “Lean on Me” by Bill Withers and “American Pie” by Don McLean were at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Movie theaters were showing “The Godfather” and “Godzilla vs Megalon,” and “MASH” premiered on TV, joining “Sanford and Son” and “All in the Family”. It... read more
Celebrating the Season: Pizza and Pumpkin Carving
We had a fab-BOO-lous time celebrating Halloween with a pizza party and pumpkin carving contest last week. Congratulations to those who tied for first place: Dara Davulcu and Kari Westrup with their artistic floral pumpkin, and Lillian Puente and Kamie Harrison with their rendition of Mike Wazowski being chased by bats, and Brooklyn Woodard and Abraham Espinoza on their 3rd place... read more
Lean Construction: Continuing the Journey at LCI Congress
Buddy Brumley, Katayoun Mokhtarzadeh, Keyan Zandy, Lucas Wilke, and Thomas Hardy had a fantastic time making connections, sharing ideas, and expanding their Lean knowledge at the Lean Construction Institute (US)’s 2022 LCI Congress in New Orleans, Louisiana last week. Our team can't wait to hear what they learned and how we can keep driving our Lean practices... read more
Clays for Camps: Skiles Group Supports Children’s Health Fundraiser
It was a gorgeous day at the 10th annual Children's Health's "Clays for Camps” at Elm Fork Shooting Sports. This annual event benefits the Children's Complex Care Medical Summer Camps program, which offers recreational fun at 26 camps and retreats each year for patients of Children's Health. Our team included Michael Piscopo, Dwayne Hodges, and Robert Ellis pictured here with Bill Elvey (Children's... read more