California Engineering Contractors

California Engineering Contractors has been one of the West Coast’s go-to heavy-civil builders since 1972, when it started with a pickup truck and two employees. The Pleasanton firm now self-performs bridges, seismic retrofits, highways, demolition, and marine work across California. CEC teamed with Skanska on the $534 million contract to replace the deck of the Vincent Thomas Bridge at the Port of Los Angeles, a job that closes the SR-47 span for about 16 months. The company’s niche is complicated infrastructure over water and traffic, where staging and sequencing matter as much as the concrete itself.