The Next Hundred Years 29 Our services The Civil Division installs and maintains utility systems. This involves general site work, rigging, demolition, masonry, structural concrete, and fencing. Big moves Our millwrights install, maintain, and tear down power plants, factories, and other complex industrial sites containing machinery and mechanical equipment. Riggers erect and dismantle mechanical shifting equipment, then use this equipment to unload, move, and set up heavy objects. Dick Mack brought several lines of work with him when he formed Mack Construction in 1992, launching what later became P&CG. Services and multiple divisions were not clearly delineated in the early days. Everyone had to be willing to adapt and to take on whatever work they could get, while showing the customer we were the best contractor around. This fexibility right from the start is what made P&CG the versatile company it is today: Kevin Schrier joined KBH in July 1994 to run a jackhammer. When Rick Swift came on board in February 1995, he was assigned to dig pole holes before moving on to concrete, water, and sewer work. The following November, Kyle Lee was hired by Chuck Wolcott as a laborer. He bounced from job to job, performing carpentry, concrete formwork, and underground utility work for a few years before landing in the KBH Millwright and Rigging Division. Kodak moments Work with Eastman Kodak kept the company busy for many years. Kyle assisted with the installation of cranes and recalls doing a lot of rigging for Kodak and the local mom-and-pop tool and die shops that serviced Kodak. Even in its decline, Kodak continued to rely on KBH. In 2000, when the flm giant shut down its massive Elmgrove facility, Kodak hired KBH to disassemble all of its machinery and equipment and move it into Kodak Park. Jef Pratt, now a project manager, joined KBH that same year to walk high-voltage tower corridors for what is now the Utility Structures Division. When Kodak further reduced its footprint at the park years later, the Millwright and Rigging Division moved the same equipment to diferent locations within the park or removed it for disposal. Kodak work also led to other opportunities: In 2007, the Civil Division provided the pipe rigging for the Gas Division on its Smith Street Bridge Crossing project, and together, we set ourselves apart as Rochester Gas & Electric’s bridge rigging contractor of choice.
