Holiday lights bring seasonal cheer to the construction world

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It’s been fairly the yr for the development trade.

Between a brand new presidential administration, a wave of data center activity and a altering regulatory panorama, builders have had loads to account for. However with the vacations approaching, a few of our readers determined to place down the hammers and string up some lights.

Listed below are Development Dive’s choices for the 2025 Vacation Lights Contest. Submitted by readers over the previous few weeks, the highest submissions all have a Christmas twinkle of their eye, very similar to a sure, red-dressed crew chief.

SiteWORX

You’ve seen the commercials for Santa’s reindeer and varied luxurious autos. However what if his sleigh and the reindeer have been a wheel loader and a few skid steers?

That’s what SiteWORX, a complete website improvement contractor based mostly in Lebanon, Ohio, determined to seek out out. A Santa stand-in waves from close to his sleigh, which is a CAT 938 wheel loader, and is guided by his reindeer within the type of CAT 255 skid steers, full with Rudolph main the best way.

The staff effort culminated in some very festive spirit — in spite of everything, the submission asks, what child doesn’t love Santa, Rudolph and heavy gear?

Superior Development

If Charlie Brown was nonetheless out there for the proper tree, this 28-foot behemoth from Jacksonville, Florida-based Superior Development will surely make him really feel like he’d struck silver and gold (paging Burl Ives!)

The “megatree” hangs from a Superior Development crane on the firm’s Portage, Indiana workplace and is illuminated with a whopping 3,200 lights. That doesn’t embody the 150 extra lights within the star on the prime, based on the submission.

Placing the tree up required a coordinated effort from 14 Superior Development staff members, per the submission (most likely far more than the one in your front room), and the tree is supported by a restored 1969 American 5299 crane.

DPR Development

Redwood Metropolis, California-based DPR has gone vertical once more this yr with some illuminated cranes. 

The contractor is engaged on the Inova Franconia-Springfield Hospital project in Springfield, Virginia, and determined to mild up the sky with a present of festive cheer.

The show was designed to convey cheer to the group and crews whereas sustaining full security compliance, based on the submission. The glow, it claims, is vivid sufficient to information even a sure red-nosed reindeer.