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Anvil Builders Blends ‘Men and Machines’ for Maximum Results

Article Reposted from ConstructionEquipmentGuide.com The right combination of skills, knowledge and equipment can transform the toughest job site into a success story. One of those stories is Anvil Builders and the company's ability to help areas get life back to normal after the devastation from wildfires.   The Situation   Cleanup after the Bay Branch wildfires south of San Francisco ...

ENR Photo Contest – Anvil placed 2nd

Anvilians,   Anvil's photo taken by Whitney Whitehouse and submitted by Maria Zavala has won second place in ENR's national photo contest! The photo of Anvil's exceptional operator, Josh Boyle tipping a chimney in the Santa Cruz Mountains has received a full-page bleed with a two-page spread in the print edition! Congratulations ! Thank you for your participation! Great work ...

Mt. Hamilton Emergency Response

Tree Cutting along Mount Hamilton Road Anvil Builders was engaged in recovery efforts due to the SCU Lightning Complex Fire. Our team worked on Mount Hamilton Road with heavy equipment removing fire damaged trees, brush, and restoring the damaged road.   Thanks to all of those who are aiding in the cleanup efforts due to the SCU Lightning Complex Fire ...

Devastating Paradise Wildfire Clean Up

I've seen plenty of wildfire news coverage in my time, but I've never seen the devastation for myself. Until now. I had the opportunity to visit Anvil Builders crews who are working in Paradise, California to clean up the destruction left by the Camp Fire.   The fire caused billions in damage, took way too many lives, and reduced the ...

Emergency Disaster Clean Up

Anvil Builders is a civil engineering construction company based out of San Francisco with experience on a variety of projects throughout California. Areas of expertise include mass grading, total infrastructure packages, wet and dry utilities, and aviation fuel lines and distribution systems.   In the last two years, Anvil has performed hazardous debris removal in the fire-damaged communities of Redding ...

Hotel Room Office to Disaster Clean Ups with Alan Guy

From a cramped San Francisco hotel room to high-profile disaster cleanups with Alan Guy of Anvil Builders.   Love dirt? Get a sneak-peek into the world of heavy construction and mining through the lens of Aaron Witt, president of BuildWitt. On a mission to "Make the Dirt World a Better Place," he travels to projects and mine sites around the ...

Anvil Terminal 11 at SFO

Over the last 3 years, Anvil has played an intricate role in the success of SFO Airport's new construction. From installation of new wet utilities package at the Grand Hyatt Hotel for Webcor Builders, to pouring concrete for all site structures and new gatehouses at the new Harvey Milk Terminal 1. Anvil has experience and relations in many division and ...

SF Collaborative Partnering Award

After 61 years of Cherry Dam's original outlet facilities, the San Francisco Public Utility Commissions contracted Anvil to rehabilitate the outlet facility. The Cherry Dam project consisted of the removal and replacement of 66-inch hollow jet valves as well as other ancillary components. The project was completed early 2018.   Anvil is very proud of our Cherry Dam team and ...

Fall Events With Anvil Builders

This fall, Anvil is attending multiple campus career fairs including Montana State University, University of the Pacific, California Polytechnic State University, UC Berkeley, Oregon State University and Stanford University. Celebrating hard work with our second annual company picnic this September 2018. On September 25th, Anvil was awarded the San Francisco Collaborative Partnering Award for the Cherry Dam Outlet Works Rehabilitation ...

Act Two: Anvil Builders Co-Founder Helps Push Prevailing Wage Campaign

HT SUPPORTING PREVAILING WAGE LAWS TO HELP VETERANS   HT Tran, Anvil Builders co-founder and former CEO, is featured in a pair of local TV and online ads as part of a multi-state public information campaign launching in California and New Mexico.   "I wouldn't be alive today if all the guys I served with took shortcuts," HT Tran says. ...

Anvil Builders projects earn merit from landscape architects

ANVIL BUILDERS PROJECTS EARN ARCHITECTURAL MERIT AWARDS   Two San Francisco projects that used Anvil Builders personnel and project expertise were recently lauded by the American Society of Landscape Architects Northern California Chapter as deserving recognition for beauty and functionality.   Hunters Point Shipyard Hillpoint Park: A Room With a View, designed by CMG Landscape Architecture is the first major ...

Veterans Never Stop Serving

Surface Shields™ has proudly partnered with nationally recognized Anvil Builders in the launch of 'Never Stop Serving,' an awareness campaign for Sentinels of Freedom, a 501(c)(3) Veterans service organization. For over a decade, Sentinels of Freedom has been committed to setting wounded Veterans up for success as they transition to civilian life. Their unique programs pair Veterans with a mentor ...

Webcor Celebrates SF Small Business Week

Webcor Builders (Webcor) is committed to providing opportunities for small businesses in all of our public works, private and federal projects. Part of Webcor’s business strategy is to promote the participation of small business on their projects and partner with the small businesses to foster their growth and success. In order to do this, Webcor focuses on outreach to advertise ...

A Business with a Mission

A Business with a Mission: Construction Firm that Aids Veterans Grows with Bond Producer’s Guidance   HIEN MANH “HT” Tran understands firsthand the problems faced by service members leaving the military; his own life-threatening injuries, suffered while he was serving in Iraq, changed his life. Six years ago, when he started San Francisco-based Anvil Builders with two partners, one of ...

Female Carpenter Loves Rough-and-Tumble Work

Natasha Arnold is the only 5’1” female carpenter’s apprentice working on San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center—the biggest transportation terminal on the West Coast.   “The jobsite workforce is 99% male,” says Arnold, adding that she’s used to being one of the only women on the job. She was in the army for six years, where she was an air traffic ...

Sentinel HT Tran Joins SOF Board of Directors

Our CEO, HT Tran, just joined the Board of Directors at Sentinels of Freedom. As a former recipient of an SOF scholarship, HT is looking forward to using his experience to continue the amazing work that SOF does every day for our Veterans. Congrats!   Read More at Sentinels of Freedom

CalVet Selects Anvil Builders CEO to DVBE Advisory Council

HT Tran, our CEO & President, has been selected by the California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet) to join their Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) Advisory Council. The Council is a forum for DVBEs and other supportive organizations to provide feedback on policies and practices that impact DVBE use within California's business communities. HT will be officially installed later this ...

Strategic Planning & Team Building

Our management team recently met to review the previous quarter’s goals and achievements. We covered strategic plans for upcoming opportunities in new markets and looked ahead to our long-term growth plan. And finally, we opened up the discussion to identify operational challenges and brainstorm how best to address them. The takeaways and insights were hugely helpful in dictating our path ...

Anvil Builders and Veterans Featured in SF Chronicle

A work crew from Anvil Builders lays asphalt in the Presidio in San Francisco, Calif. on Fri. November 6, 2015. Rhumbix, founded by two Navy veterans seeks to apply the technology solutions they learned in the military to the construction industry with a mobile platform so supervisors can make sure work crews have the correct materials, tools and equipment for ...

Acceptance of ENR 2015 Award of Excellence Video

This video illustrates the last five years of our company's progress and defines the meaning of who we are.   On behalf of Anvil Builders Team, I had the great privilege of representing my company as we received ENR's Award of Excellence Recipient of 2015. What a great moment to be recognized in front of the construction industry.   THANK ...

ENR 2015 Award of Excellence Video

Wounded in Iraq, the young entrepreneur now executes a new mission as construction firm CEO and veterans' advocate.   While hanging out with friends in his California living room one day in 2006, HT Tran had an epiphany that changed the direction of his life. It led him to become a soldier in Iraq who later was severely wounded, co-found ...

ENR 2015 Award of Excellence: HT Tran Is An Inspired CEO

While hanging out with friends in his California living room one day in 2006, HT Tran had an epiphany. It changed his life and unwittingly led him to become a soldier in Iraq who later was severely wounded, the co-founder and CEO of a fast-growing contractor, and, finally, a dedicated advocate of hiring veterans in construction and a standard-bearer for ...

ENR – Top 25 News Maker – Anvil Builders Inc

The construction industry is full of excellent leadership, but the public rarely sees it in action—even if it ultimately benefits from better roads, buildings and other facilities. ENR’s annual Top 25 Newsmakers program recognizes outstanding achievements. For a half-century now, ENR has named the top industry professionals who have made a difference for their industry and the public during the ...

SF BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL – BATTLE TESTED

Hien Manh Tran served as a field sergeant in the U.S. Army, won a Purple Heart Medallion for his service in Iraq, and most recently founded Anvil Builders Inc., a successful and rapidly growing building and engineering company in San Francisco. But the thing Tran is most proud of is being able to give back to the class of soldiers ...

ENR – YOUNG IRAQ VET ‘WALKS THE WALK’ AS CEO ON A MISSION

Moving from active combat to a civilian career can be a tough transition for returning veterans, especially those who have been injured in service. But Hien Manh Tran, known as HT, has made the switch from recovering in an Army hospital to running construction jobsites as founder and CEO of the fast-growing, San Francisco-based contractor Anvil Builders Inc. Now, he ...

San Francisco Little League Sponsor

Anvil Builders is a proud sponsor of the San Francisco Little League. Learn more about our our sponsorship of the San Francisco Little League at http://www.sfll.org/page/show/57542-sponsors. San Francisco Little League would like to thank all of our sponsors! We are very fortunate to have the support of so many local businesses. Their generosity makes it possible for all of our ...

FORBES – Entrepreneurship for Military Injuries and Retirement

What would you do if your dream to serve your country and retire from the military was taken away from you just weeks into your first deployment? How would you handle your jaw being ripped off by a snipers bullet… strange looks because you were missing an eye or walked with a limp due to shrapnel received from one or ...

ABC NEWS – MILITARY VETS: UBER WANTS TO HIRE YOU

Rideshare company Uber is rolling out an aggressive new campaign to put veterans in the driver's seat.   The company is now looking to join forces with the men and women of the military with the launch of UberMILITARY. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has signed on to be a voluntary chairman of UberMILITARY. The project plans to put ...

ABC NEWS – INJURED BAY AREA WAR VET NOW PAYING IT FORWARD

During this upcoming Independence Day weekend, it's only right to salute the men and women who have served in the military for our country. And one Bay Area Iraq War vet injured by an IED is now paying it forward by giving other veterans a chance to succeed.   "This actually still has the natural blood that was from my... ...