For J.P. Cullen & Sons Inc,. no project is ever the same as the last. President Dave Cullen explains that on each project, the company encounters a new set of challenges to overcome. "That's the excitement of the job and the business," he states, "It's always varying. There's new markets [and] new challenges in front of you. You're never bored."

Based in Janesville Wisconsin, J.P. Cullen & Sons is a general contractor that specializes in masonry, industrial, concrete, historic restoration and preservation, and rigging and erection projects. Cullen's great-grandfather, John Patrick Cullen, founded the company in 1892.

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 Badger High School needed space for another 500 students and updated arts facilities to serve more than 2,100.  Its small weightroom was inadequate to meet the needs of the athletes and the health and lifetime fitness physical-education curriculum.

The solution was two, two-story additions to minimize the footprint on an already tight 40-acre site.  The 21-classroom addition accomodates more than 500 students.  The arts and fitness addition has several unique features, beginning with a dramatic two-story atrium and a 24-foot skylight connecting the existing building to the new.

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The county-owned school in Elkhorn serves children with the physical and emotional disabilities from early childhood through high school. Plunkett Raysich, Milwaukee, wanted to design the school with sensory stimulation and security in mind.

The firm also needed to meet the needs of Walworth County Board, which required transparency throughout construction of the school. Abie Khatchadourian, project manager with Plunkett Raysich, said architects talked extensively with teachers to build classrooms, play centers, hallways and even toilets that better "helped teachers held the kids."

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In today’s world of global mergers and corporate consolidations, it seems the notion of a family-owned and -operated business that is passed on through generations is from a misty, bygone era. But family entrepreneurship is alive and well at J.P. Cullen & Sons, Inc. A construction company founded in 1892, J.P. Cullen & Sons is now in its fourth generation of family ownership.

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Already unique for being a family-run company 117 years after its founding, J. P. Cullen & Sons is pioneering the use of continuous process improvement and utilizing the latest technologies, president and CEO David Cullen tells Gay Sutton

At construction company J. P. Cullen & Sons, the family ethos runs deep, spreading back in a direct timeline through four generations of the same family—a heritage that is very rare in the construction industry.

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City Hall is history lesson in the making

Engberg Anderson Inc. and J.P. Cullen & Sons Inc. looked to the past to preserve the future of Milwaukee City Hall. Charles Engberg, partner in charge for project architects of record, Engberg Anderson, Milwaukee, said the city conducted research and held a symposium to explore ways to restore the exterior of the German Renaissance Revival-style building.

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In Madison, Wis., U.S., Manitowoc cranes helped to build the second phase of a campus for computer software company, Epic. JP Cullen, a Wisconsin-based contractor used a Potain MDT 412, a Potain MDT 302 and a Manitowoc Model 16000 crawler crane for the job. The cranes constructed a 2,000-car parking garage and four office buildings. A 40 USt (35 t) Grove RT 540E was also on site as a support crane for various lifting jobs.

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This is an American story.

This is the story of Irish immigrants who came to the land of opportunity and through hard work, dedication, and discipline shaped the legacy of J.P. Cullen & Sons. This century-old construction company, nurtured by four generations of the Cullen family, began with one set of hands and now has grown to 400 employees strong.

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With an innovative method for efficient construction, this long-established contractor has achieved new success.

By Genevieve Diesing

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J. P. Cullen & Sons

The master builder concept has been around for millennia. It was master builders who created Europe’s great landmarks, for example. Today’s construction industry, however, tends to consist of general contractors and construction managers. But one Wisconsin builder is working to adapt the master builder model to the 21st century

J. P. Cullen & Sons, a general contracting firm founded in 1892, has been consistently ranked among the top 400 contractors in the United States and is the only Wisconsin-based contractor to have achieved the prestigious ISO 9001:2000 Certification. But those accolades aren’t enough for Cullen’s 600 employees, says Director of Marketing Tristan McGough. “We want to create buildings that stand the test of excellence,” he says. “Buildings that have substance and esthetic longevity.”

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