September 3, 2018
CAMBRIDGE, MA — WeatherBuild®, Decision Support Solutions for the Construction Industry and Built Environment®, is proud to welcome Dr. James “Jim” Becker, Cornell BSCE ’65, MS Structural Eng. ‘67, UC Berkeley PhD Structural Eng. ’74, as an advisor. Jim Becker’s career has spanned over 50 years in the building industry. Since retiring from Skanska (www.skanska.com) in 2018, he has been active as a consultant. Jim started his career in structural fabricating before obtaining his Doctorate and in 1974 beginning to teach at MIT in the design and construction of buildings.
While continuing to teach, Jim became a partner in charge of project delivery at The Beacon Companies in 1980, and then the President of Beacon Construction Company in 1985. The Beacon Companies became a REIT in 1994, and 3 years later Jim arranged for Beacon Construction Company to be purchased by global construction company Skanska. Jim ran the New England region for Skanska and, after several years in this position, took on various corporate functions in both the US as well as globally. During his last 8 years with Skanska, Jim was very involved in the company’s Building Information Modeling (BIM) operations.
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