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Why There's More to the Pour with CSI

Clayco’s CSI team builds lasting structures with concrete expertise, innovation, and workforce training in Hazelwood, MO.

Architectural rendering of the Humboldt Park Passive Living building in Chicago, featuring modern design, large windows, public plaza, ground-floor retail spaces, and community artwork on the facade.

Building More Than Walls in Humboldt Park

Humboldt Park Passive Living brings 60 affordable apartments, sustainable design, and community-focused spaces to Chicago’s West Side—built to Passive House standards for comfort, efficiency, and connection.

The Anatomy of a Job Site: How Preconstruction and Logistics Lay the Groundwork for Everything

When people imagine a construction site, they often see the visible: cranes lifting steel, workers in vests, machines pushing dirt. But long before any of that happens—and long after crews leave for the day—there’s a quiet force keeping it all together: preconstruction and logistics.

What Our Weekly Drone Reports Really Show

Each week, I get a report that quietly captures something pretty extraordinary: how far we’ve come in integrating drone technology into the construction process. It’s not just about flight logs or video counts, it’s about technology changing the building process.

Building What’s Next at O’Hare

At Clayco, building means more than construction. It’s about people, ideas, and innovation coming together to create places that matter. Concourse D at Chicago O’Hare International Airport is one of those places.

Clayco Named #1 Best Place to Work in Los Angeles

We’re honored that Clayco and Lamar JohnsonCollaborative have once again been named the #1 Best Place toWork in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

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The concept of earning is an instinct of mine

My first job was stamping cans at a little grocery market in exchange for candy at about 10 years old. The concept of earning was an early instinct of mine.

During my teen years, I had a car wash on my home driveway, after which I started doing small painting and odd jobs at neighbors’ homes for extra money, but mainly to avoid mowing my own yard by paying the kid down the street to do it. I could make more money doing the other jobs, which allowed me to pay him very little to do something I didn’t want to do that was much more time-consuming. Looking back, that was an entrepreneurial experience.

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