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Dillingham Construction International, Inc. (DCII) is an American engineering and construction services company, with North American headquarters in Ponca City, Oklahoma. It was previously based in Oahu, Hawaii then in San Francisco, and Pleasanton, California. The company was founded by Walter F. Dillingham in 1889, as the Oahu Railway and Land Company to build a railroad across the swamps of Oahu, Hawaii for large-scale sugar cane production. It has also known as Dillingham Construction.




History


In 1902, Walter F. Dillingham founded the Hawaiian Dredging and Construction Co.. In 1912, Walter F. Dillingham purchased 84 acres (34 ha) from the former Bernice P. Bishop Estate, which used the land for property development to create the neighborhood of Waikiki and many of its early related buildings and structures (including the Ala Wai Canal).
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 1959, the company began construction of one of its largest projects was the $30 million USD Ala Moana Center shopping mall. 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. Lowell Dillingham died a few years after the sale in 1987. In 1988, the Dillingham Construction company moved the headquarters from San Francisco, to Pleasanton, California.




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. From 2000 until 2003, the company had a series of litigation and debt issues, which culminated into filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2003.




Notable projects



Pearl Harbor dry docks (1909), Oahu, Hawaii
Beverly Wilshire Hotel (1928), Beverly Hills, California
Griffith Park Observatory (1935) in Los Angeles, California
Hilton Hawaiian Village (1955), Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii
Ala Moana Shopping Center (1966; now Ala Moana Center), Oahu, Hawaii
44 Montgomery (1962–1967), Financial District, San Francisco, California
Harbor View Plaza (1968), Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii
One Embarcadero Center (1971), Embarcadero, San Francisco, California
Grand Hyatt San Francisco (1972), Embarcadero, San Francisco, California
50 California Street (1972), Financial District, San Francisco, California
New Melones Dam (1979), near Jamestown, California
BC Place (1983), Vancouver, Canada
Bayraklı Tunnels (1999; formerly Karşıyaka Tunnels), Izmir Province, Turkey
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



Yardley, Paul T. "Millstones and Milestones: The Career of B. F. Dillingham" (1981, University of Hawaii Press).
Bobby N. Harmon (18 November 2008). "The Dirty Dillies of Dillingham Corporation". The Catbird Seat. Retrieved 9 August 2012.




External links


Official website

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