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The MCMag Conversation with …

The MCMag Conversation features interviews with executives, engineers and other leaders who are making a difference in marine construction. Whether we’re talking with members of a family-owned business with a century or more of history or innovators in digital controls and materials science, we bring you their insights and experience. Want to know what the future holds? Get in on the conversation with the people who’re creating it.

The Marine Construction Magazine Conversation with… Chris Sullivan, Interface Consulting

The secret to avoiding conflict? Detailed yet flexible planning. Chris Sullivan is a construction professional who specializes in avoiding conflict—and resolving it

  • Issue IV, 2024

The Marine Construction Magazine Conversation with … Mason Sears, SF Marina U.S.A.

Mason Sears has spent his life on or near the ocean. Born in Massachusetts and a long-time resident of Maine, he’s worked

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  • Issue I, 2024

The Marine Construction Magazine Conversation with … Dena Prastos

Waterfront Architect—Changing Concepts for a Changing Littoral By Warren Miller, Marine Construction Magazine Architecture in New York City is, by dictates of

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  • Issue V, 2023

The Marine Construction Magazine Conversation with … Mark Boyer

By Warren Miller, Marine Construction Magazine Mark Boyer started his construction career as an electrician who worked his way up a ladder

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The Marine Construction Magazine Conversation with … Bill Ziadie, APE

 Bill Ziadie works for the vibratory hammer company American Piledriving Equipment, Inc., which is best known by its acronym APE. Bill’s business

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  • Issue III, 2023

The Marine Construction Magazine Conversation with …

 Turning Data into Information – Esri’s Lain Graham and Keith VanGraafeiland Maps have always been a useful tool to get somewhere. But

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The MCMag Conversation: Dean Abbondanza

By Warren Miller  Dean Abbondanza, the Director of Engineering at The Fields Companies, has a unique combination of skills. Born and raised

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The Marine Construction Magazine Conversation with … Women in Engineering 

Women engineers still are a minority on the job in marine construction, and rarer still in the field, let alone in project

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The Marine Construction Magazine Conversation with … Leon Trudeau – Prime Marine Services  

By Warren Miller   It’s not unusual to come up the hard way in marine construction. But few people have achieved success

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The MCM Conversation with … Dominique Polte, ShibataFenderTeam  

By Warren Miller ShibataFenderTeam is one of the leading manufacturers of fenders for ports and other marine purposes. Its business is almost

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MCM Conversation – JD Fields’ Dean Abbondanza  

  Dean Abbondanza, the Director of Engineering at The Fields Companies, has a unique combination of skills. Born and raised near Pittsburgh,

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The MCM Conversation with: Dee Burch Advanced American Construction 

Dee Burch comes to both construction and mentoring naturally.  The oldest of five children raised in rural Oregon by a single mother,

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The MCM Conversation with: John White

In a future dictionary, the term “Renaissance man” might be accompanied by a photo of John White. A pile driver mechanic turned

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The MCM Conversation with: Isaiah Pitz

McMullen & Pitz Construction was founded in Manitowoc, Wisc., in 1918, when Oliver McMullen and Arthur Pitz partnered together to form a

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The MCM Conversation: OlinPumps’ Dave Swain

Dave Swain, the founder of Olin Pumps in Southern California, has been a tinkerer with motors since he was a kid. He

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The MCM Conversation with Fitz O’Donnell, Vice President and Business Unit Leader, McCarthy Building Companies, Houston, Texas

Fitz O’Donnell comes from Alabama – he’s an Auburn-trained civil engineer – but he’s right in the middle of the bustling Texas

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