Gilbane Constructing Co. has named Adam R. Jelen, an 18-year veteran of the corporate, as its new CEO, the contractor introduced Monday. Jelen will succeed present CEO Thomas M. Laird Jr. on Jan. 1. At the moment, Laird will turn out to be chairman of the corporate.

Jelen has a 30-year-plus profession in building that began with jobs in heavy and freeway labor, together with asphalt, concrete, sewer work and excavation. He was employed on the Windfall, Rhode Island-based builder in 2005, working his manner up via the corporate as a mission supervisor, mission govt and district supervisor, in response to the discharge. Jelen is presently the corporate’s chief working officer.

Jelen can also be an govt committee member for Nationwide Development Security Week and was a founding board member of the ACE Mentor Program in Milwaukee.

“I’m deeply humbled and honored to imagine the position of CEO of our industry-leading, 153-year-old firm. I look ahead to working with our groups on the following stage of protected world-class mission supply and group impression,” Jelen stated within the launch.

Jelen’s objectives as CEO embrace harnessing the ability of the Gilbane enterprise identify and empowering workers on initiatives, he instructed Development Dive in an e mail.

“Now we have an distinctive management crew in place and I’m extremely fortunate to work with them on constructing the longer term,” Jelen stated.

Thomas F. Gilbane Jr. will proceed as chairman and chief govt officer of Gilbane Inc. — the guardian entity of Gilbane Constructing Co. — and its associated improvement arm, Gilbane Improvement Co., in response to the discharge.

“Adam is a visionary chief who is targeted on elevating our purchasers’ expertise and making an impression within the communities during which we construct. We look ahead to him taking up this management position, constructing on the muse of Tom Laird’s management and persevering with to boost the bar on how we construct,” Gilbane Jr. stated within the launch. 

The information comes amid a constructive local weather for the builder — in March, it introduced that income was up 8% from the earlier 12 months whereas spotlighting its efficiency with P3 initiatives. That is along with the massive initiatives below its belt, which embrace the Buffalo Payments’ new stadium and the just lately accomplished first part of Intel’s semiconductor fabs in Licking County, Ohio.