Dillingham Construction was an engineering and construction services company which was based in Hawaii then in

Pleasanton, California Pleasanton is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. Located in the Amador Valley, it is a suburb in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 79,871 at the 2020 census. In 2005 and 2007, Pleasanton wa ...

. The company was founded in the 1880s as the

Oahu Railway and Land Company The Oahu Railway and Land Company, or OR&L, was a narrow gauge common carrier railway that served much of the Hawaiian island of Oahu, and was the largest narrow gauge class one common carrier in the U.S, until its dissolution in 1947. Origin T ...

to build a railroad across the swamps of

Oahu, Hawaii Oahu () ( Hawaiian: ''Oʻahu'' ()), also known as "The Gathering Place", is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands. It is home to roughly one million people—over two-thirds of the population of the U.S. state of Hawaii. The island of O’ ...

. Dillingham later became a leading engineering and construction firm, building dams, airfields, high-rises, hotels and embassies around the world.

Notable projects

One Embarcadero Center One Embarcadero Center is a class-A office skyscraper in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The building is part of the Embarcadero Center complex of six interconnected buildings and one off-site extension. The skyscraper, co ...

* Grand Hyatt San Francisco * 44 Montgomery *

50 California Street 50 California Street (also known as the Union Bank Building) is a , 37-storey, story office tower completed in 1972 at the foot of California Street (San Francisco), California Street in the Financial District (San Francisco), Financial District ...

BC Place BC Place is a multi-purpose stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Located at the north side of False Creek, it is owned and operated by the BC Pavilion Corporation (PavCo), a crown corporation of the province. The venue is currently ...

* US Embassy, Singapore * US Embassy, Moscow * Sakkara Air Base * Izmir Motorway Project *

Hilton Hawaiian Village The Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort is a resort hotel on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii. The resort first opened in 1955, and since has grown to become the largest in the Hilton chain of hotels, and one of largest hotels in t ...

* Ala Moana Shopping Center * Los Angeles Emergency Operations Center

References

*Yardley, Paul T. "Millstones and Milestones: The Career of B. F. Dillingham" (1981, University of Hawaii Press). * * * * *

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* {{authority control Companies based in Pleasanton, California American companies established in 1880 Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States 1880 establishments in Hawaii Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1880 2003 disestablishments in California Companies disestablished in 2003 Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2003