James brings 29 years of structure-focused experience for many of Kiewit’s clients’ largest alternative delivery infrastructure projects across North America. He collaborates on innovations in order to best position construction start-up, facilitates cost and schedule savings, and excels at implementing successful communication strategies to coordinate with design, environmental, construction, and quality teams across all phases of a project. James’ areas of expertise include:

• Managing the design and construction of structures that cross over navigable waterways, open and active highways, interstate-to-interstate interchanges, and rail lines.
• Ensuring minimal impacts to the community through his effective coordination with third parties, communities, and stakeholders.
• Collaborating with clients and design teams to ensure a project-first approach.
• Managing all aspects of a project, including the overall design, environmental compliance, construction, quality management, and contract administration activities.• Co-locating with client project teams to ensure relationships are built and goals and expectations are being met.

Notable Project Experience

• Hood River White Salmon Bridge, Progressive Design Build, Hood River, OR,

2023-Present, $1.12B

• Gerald Desmond Bridge Demolition, Bid-Build, Long Beach, CA,

2021-2023, $27.5M

• Waaban Crossing (formerly Kingston Third Crossing), Integrated Project

Delivery, Kingston, ON, 2018-2021, $159M

• Port Mann Bridge/Highway 1 Improvements, Design-Build, Surrey to

Burnaby, BC, 2009-2014, $2.7B

• Benicia-Martinez Bridge, Bid-Build, Benicia, CA, 2001-2006, $758M

Confluence Path Vancouver Land Bridge, Bid-Build, Vancouver, WA,

2009-2014, $11M