It’s been quite the year for builders.
Investment in data centers and infrastructure work has helped the U.S. building industry keep busy over the course of 2024. What better way to send out a successful year than with a bright, festive installation that showcases cheer and goodwill?
Here, Construction Dive presents the winners of its annual Holiday Lights contest. Sent in by readers over the past few weeks, the top submissions as selected by our editors all share in that holly-jolly spirit.
DPR
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Redwood City, California-based DPR Construction went tall this year. The contractor decorated its crane, which is on the job in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the builder is creating an advanced care facility at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center.
Every year, Atrium hosts “Lights for Levine,” where people gather outside Levine Children’s Hospital with flashlights, and the children in the hospital shine flashlights back while holiday music plays, according to the firm.
This year, DPR decorated its jobsite and tower cranes with holiday lights and lit Christmas trees. Two DPR employees, dressed as Santa Claus and Buddy the Elf, climbed the tower crane next to the hospital and waved at the kids inside.
Trifecta Services Co.
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This holiday season, Charlotte, North Carolina-based demolition contractor Trifecta Services Co. decided that heavy machinery doesn’t have to be drab — the company decided to make its machines sights to behold.
Its Kenworth T280 mechanics truck and Kobelco SK500 digger feature a glowing outline emblazoned with the company’s “T” logo at The Pearl, a demolition project in Charlotte. Santa sits in the cab of the digger, with an elf on top of the truck, which sports a golden Christmas tree suspended by its hook.
Sundt Construction
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Jobsite trailers may be temporary, but for Tempe, Arizona-based Sundt Construction, they’re also pieces of holiday art.
Sundt decorated its jobsite office and deck on a data center project in Phoenix. Sundt said the team goes all out for the holidays every year, culminating with an annual toy drive. At the end of December, employees deliver the toys to two area nonprofits. This year, Sundt’s team donated around 2,000 toys.
