Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Moving Corporate HQ to Houston From Chicago
Great Lakes Dredge and Dock is moving its corporate headquarters to Houston from Oak Brook, Illinois. Oak Brook is a western suburb of Chicago.
Company that Dredged West Fork
Great Lakes spent more than a year dredging the San Jacinto West Fork in 2018 and 2019 for the Army Corps of Engineers.
The company has many other interests in the Houston Area and the central Gulf Coast from Corpus Christi to Louisiana. The move puts the company closer to key customers and growing markets, especially along the Gulf Coast and Mississippi River. The company already has regional offices in Jacksonville, FL and Staten Island, New York.
The company deepens ports, maintains waterways, renourishes beaches and restores barrier islands.
About the Houston HQ
The Houston headquarters, scheduled to open in early 2021 with its executive leadership team, will be staffed gradually over the next 12 months. It is initially searching for 20,000 square feet of office space in the Energy Corridor, between the Galleria and Beltway 8. The company will maintain a business and operations support center in the Oak Brook area.
The company said the move also will allow it to leverage long-term relationships with the Center for Dredging Studies at Texas A&M University, Louisiana State University and other universities that feature coastal resilience and natural infrastructure initiatives.
Landmark Projects Throughout US
Great Lakes has been involved in the development and construction of many well-known landmarks. In the Great Lakes’ region, that has included Chicago’s Navy Pier and Michigan Avenue Bridge; straightening and reversing the flow of the Chicago River; Northerly Island, a 91-acre peninsula along Chicago’s Lake Michigan; and the deepening the St. Lawrence Seaway between the U.S. and Canada.
Elsewhere, it has completed deepening projects in almost every port in the country and worked on important infrastructure projects, such as the massive container terminals in the ports of Los Angles and Long Beach and the Fort McHenry Tunnel that carries interstate traffic underneath the Baltimore Harbor.
Recent Texas and Louisiana Projects
Among its recent projects in Texas and neighboring states: deepening the Corpus Christi Ship Channel from the Gulf of Mexico to Harbor Island; maintenance dredging of Houston Ship Channel; dredging for liquefied natural gas facilities in Corpus Christi and Cameron Parish, La.; restoring Louisiana’s Whiskey Island, which helps protect Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes from storm surge; restoring barrier islands to protect coastal Mississippi; and building the barrier berms that protected Louisiana from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Works in Almost Every Port in County
Elsewhere, it has completed deepening projects in almost every port in the country and worked on important infrastructure projects, such as the massive container terminals in the ports of Los Angles and Long Beach and the Fort McHenry Tunnel that carries interstate traffic underneath the Baltimore Harbor.
The company is the largest provider of dredging services in the US. It has a fleet of more than 200 vessels.
Welcome to Houston!
It will be good to have such a valuable resource in Houston. Especially as sediment builds up in our rivers and lakes to the point where it can no longer be ignored. Great Lakes’ expanded presence will make the Houston dredging market even more competitive.
For more information on Great Lakes Dredge and Dock, visit their website.
Posted by Bob Rehak on 10/24/2020
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