Spring 2018

In 2017, Robinson Brothers Construction (RBC) – an independent utility contractor based in Vancouver, Washington – secured a contract with a major telecommunications company to increase connectivity from Umatilla to Portland, Oregon. The company specializes in underground construction applications, helping launch fiber-optic networks for some of the largest communications companies throughout the western United States.

Spring 2018

Building a two-story, 125,000-square-foot music facility with a 300-seat recital hall and a 1,000-seat indoor performance center that can open to lawn seating for another 1,300 seats is no easy feat. Construction project manager Gary Shepherd is no stranger to large, complex construction projects.

Spring 2018

What started as a small shake operation for two men has flourished into a well-known, family-owned-and-operated cedar fencing mill. Wood products produced at the mill are used throughout North America for fencing projects.

Spring 2018

Bound by two coastlines of the Gulf of Mexico with the Mississippi River in the center, lies Plaquemines Parish (pop. 23,042) – the furthest lowland peninsula south of the City of New Orleans and the most vulnerable parish in coastal Louisiana.