Building Industry Hawaii Staff

News Beat: Kaneshige is Outstanding Union Builder of the Year. Again!

Succeeding in the construction business runs in the family for Glen Kaneshige, who was recently honored by the Hawai‘i Regional Council of Carpenters and Pacific Resource Partnership as the 2024 Outstanding Union Builder of the Year at a Royal Hawaiian Resort Waikīkī reception.      This is the second time Kaneshige was honored with the

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News Beat: Coffman Engineers Expands Electrical Group with ECS Inc. 

ECS Inc. (ECS), an electrical engineering consulting firm, has executed a letter of intent to join Coffman Engineers Inc. following the two firms’ February asset purchase agreement. Coffman’s Honolulu office welcomes ECS’ two owners and eight staff members, expanding its Pacific Region electrical engineering group to 25 employees. “Tim and I have had great long

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News Beat: 2023 Building Industry Design Award Winners

BIA Hawaii in January announced the 2023 winners of its annual Building Industry Design & Construction Awards. This year’s competition included two special categories for Kitchen & Bath and a Best in Hawaii Living Award. Stone-Drew/Ashe & Jones and EMTEK sponsored the awards presented at a cocktail reception. “The 2023 BIDCA Awards honor and highlight

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News Beat: Servpac’s MTP Data Center Expands, Doubles Cloud Capacity

Locally owned Servpac Inc. has just completed a significant expansion project, doubling colocation capacity at its MTP Data Center in Mililani Technology Park. The multi-million-dollar project commenced in June of last year. “With this recent investment, we have ensured that our clients’ operations are never impacted,” says Richard Zheng, president and founder of Servpac. “By

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Newsmakers: Bowers + Kubota

Bowers + Kubota (B+K) Consulting President Brian Bowers was presented with the 2023 Jerry Allen Courage in Leadership Award at the Zweig Group’s Elevate AEC Awards gala in Frisco, Tex., in September. Zweig Group, which provides managing and marketing services for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) firms nationwide, presents the annual award recognizing outstanding AEC

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Newsmakers: Kirschner Contractors

Stephen Teijeiro Corinne Ehara Stephen Teijeiro was promoted to team leader at Kirschner Contractors’ (KC) Hawai‘i office. Since joining KC, Teijeiro has expanded his credentials to include Planning & Scheduling Professional, Certified Estimating Professional and Earned Value Professional. Corinne Ehara is now part of KC’s administration and project support team. With a bachelor’s degree in

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