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North American Construction Journal
93
rom humble beginnings in 1968, Baker Concrete Construction, Inc. has evolved into one of the nation’s largest specialty contractors with thousands of co-workers at 14 offices across the United States. Yet the company established by Dan Baker and his brothers has never lost that down-to-earth family feel. It is a trait that has served the company well through its first 50 years, a time during which it has completed nearly 11,000 projects. With exception of highly specialized trades, the company selfperforms all work. “Dan has built the company with strong core values. We continue to work with those values of People, Honor and Grit. We are a people business that just happens to build some amazing structures. Dan has built the company on the belief that ‘Our word is our word.’ We are fairly large in our realm of construction and we still maintain a gritty, humble culture that makes us different,” says Kerri Smith, Vice President and General Manager of the South Florida office based in Fort Lauderdale. The South Florida location serves the area from West Palm Beach to Key West, including Miami and Fort Lauderdale. “We have hard-working people giving it their all 12 hours a day. It is a humble group, but we do enjoy driving by
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structures and saying to our families ‘We built that’,” adds Smith, who has been with the company for 14 years. Baker Concrete provides a range of construction and management services to the Civil, Commercial, Heavy Industrial, Institutional, Energy and Power, and Multi-Family sectors. Core competencies include structural excavation, concrete formwork design and installation, concrete reinforcement