Skanska Ramps Up to Grow and Diversify

BLUE BELL, PA-The locally based Philadelphia regional office of Skanska USA Building Inc. has undergone a complete redevelopment with a new general manager, three top-level promotions and as many new hires within two weeks. Formerly Barkley White Skanska, this office, like all 23 US regional offices of the Parsippany, NJ-based construction company, has been rebranded Skanska USA Building Inc.

As six different brands were undergoing realignment over the past several years, Edward Szwarc, this region’s new general manager, tells GlobeSt.com, “we had a big turnover of personnel and a couple of tough years in this office.” Since December, the office staff here has grown from 100 to 119, “and there will be more,” he says. “We are revving up. We see significant additional potential in the Philadelphia area, and we have the right people in place to handle large, complex jobs and to diversify.”

This office covers New Jersey from Princeton south and all of Delaware and Pennsylvania. As GlobeSt.com previously reported, it broke ground this April on a $181-million R&D facility at Johnson & Johnson’s Spring House, PA campus. Szwarc says the company is also adding 100,000 sf to the Phoenixville (PA) Hospital, constructing a 62,000-sf School of Health Sciences at Reading (PA) Hospital & Medical Center, and a new 35,000-sf Crate & Barrel store in Cherry Hill, NJ.