Berghammer Construction: Shaping Southeastern Wisconsin for 90 Years and Driving Toward the Future
Berghammer, in typical Midwestern fashion, has been at the forefront of this quieter construction movement – not just building, but building with innovative solutions that help their clients serve their customers better. This era, which includes projects of many shapes and sizes, will go down in history. And Berghammer, now under a new leadership team in its 90th anniversary year, is helping to shape this history.
2018 marks Berghammer’s 90th anniversary
Since 1928, Berghammer Construction has been building Wisconsin’s business landscape and culture, shaping Milwaukee and surrounding communities through unique projects and innovative solutions with incomparable customer service.
In celebration of its 90th anniversary, Berghammer has dug into its archives to appreciate and celebrate its rich history. Even many on the new leadership team, who’ve been with the company for years, didn’t know some of these new intriguing facts recently dug up about Berghammer’s past:
New team leads the company into the future
As Berghammer celebrates its past, its focus is firmly on the future. A new ownership group has recently taken over the company after Lief Nesheim was at the helm for 30 years. But just like Berghammer executes its projects, the leadership transition was so seamless, not a whole lot changed. In fact, some didn’t even notice. And that was actually the plan all along.
With Jim Parks now at the helm, he intends to use both his traditional and non-traditional experience to foster the next phase of growth for the company, and much like his new role, he believes that Berghammer's most important work doesn't need to be in the spotlight.
Business as usual for the five partners at Berghammer means staying on the front lines of all their projects, going the extra mile whenever necessary to ensure success, and keeping an open-door policy to encourage employee collaboration.
The new ownership team includes:
The wide breadth of talent and experience on the leadership team was a strategic move the company planned for years in order to allow Berghammer to diversify projects across many different sectors in the construction marketplace, including healthcare, churches, senior living, industrial, office, educational, restaurants and mixed-use complexes.
For more about the leadership team, see the ownership group page on the Berghammer website.