President and chief operating officer; co-owner
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Since joining the organization in December 2019, Holmes has developed a reputation for collaborative leadership and innovative safety solutions.

Starting as a safety assistant, she quickly progressed through the ranks to safety manager. She works with more than 350 employees across job sites for both Pence Contractors and Pence/Kelly Concrete.

One of her most recent achievements is a custom incident reporting app with an integrated dashboard, allowing the team to analyze safety trends more effectively. Holmes is certified as an Associate Safety Professional and is working toward full Certified Safety Professional status.

Beyond technical skills, Holmes stands out for her interpersonal approach. She conducts site inspections with a focus on relationship-building, avoiding heavy-handed tactics while ensuring compliance with OSHA standards.

Holmes is bilingual, enabling her to communicate better with trades on jobsites. A CPR trainer who annually teaches approximately 90 employees, Holmes received the 2022 Pence Values Award. She is also a member of the company’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.

Care is at the core of Holmes’ role as a construction leader. Her goal remains consistent: getting workers home safely each day.

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It’s one thing to have women’s voices at the table when decisions are made. It’s another to have the voices of women owners.

Pence Construction recently elevated two women, Shannon Parker and Elisabeth Kenaston, to ownership roles. They’re the first women to achieve that rank in the company’s 73-year history. They join five other owners of the Lake Oswego-based contractor.

Parker joined Pence in 2015 and now serves as director of employee and client experience; she oversees human resources, communications, marketing and client experience. Kenaston arrived at the firm in May 2020 and now is director of finance.

Parker and Kenaston join longtime Pence principals Paul Schulz and Dave Hays as part of the ownership group. Chief Financial Officer Jim Grabski, Director of Revenue Operations Marc Monaghan, and project executives Philip Johnson and Dan Cowley also were elevated to owners recently.

Parker grew up in Albany, where her father was a contractor and homebuilder, and her mother handled administrative duties.

鈥淚 grew up on jobsites,鈥� she said.

Despite the early exposure, Parker did not initially seek to join the construction industry. In high school, she became interested in drafting, language arts and journalism. She eventually earned a journalism degree at Linfield University before working in public relations for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Oregon State Building Trades Council.

When a Pence marketing job opened in Salem, Parker, who was living in Santiam Canyon at the time, jumped at the opportunity.

鈥淚t’s just been a fun ride,鈥� she said.

The construction industry was not initially on Kenaston’s mind, either.

鈥淚 didn’t see myself there,鈥� she said. 鈥淭here are not a lot of women, and I’m not handy. This industry was not something that ever crossed my mind.鈥�

Kenaston, an accountant, was working for Aldrich CPAs + Advisors, where she got to know Pence and other construction firms. As a woman, she stood out among her construction industry clients. One client, she said, good-naturedly called her 鈥渉eels.鈥�

Both women now balance weighty professional responsibilities with busy personal lives as wives and mothers. Kenaston has a 6-month-old son with her husband. In fact, Pence offered her an ownership role shortly before she took maternity leave.

鈥淭he support and encouragement of Pence has blown me away,鈥� she said.

Parker and her husband have two children, a 15-year-old daughter and an 11-year-son who suffers from brittle bone disease. That has meant some flexibility by both Parker and Pence.

鈥淚 take him to his specialist visits in Omaha every year, and work out of hospitals sometimes,鈥� Parker said. 鈥淭hat’s the gig, but between a supportive spouse and a supportive company and supportive colleagues, that’s really doable. But the company has to be willing to partner with and support you in those things to be successful.鈥�

Both women have been encouraged to see a growing number of women join the industry in a variety of roles. One survey found women make up only 9 percent of the construction workforce, but that number has been growing.

鈥淚t’s grown pretty rapidly, and we are seeing a lot more excitement from women about joining the field,鈥� Parker said.

For women looking to join the industry, Parker had a piece of advice: Be yourself, and don’t compromise who you are to fit in.

鈥淭he value you’re going to bring to a jobsite is being yourself and bringing your full strengths as a woman to the jobsite,鈥� she said. 鈥淲hatever you see that as, bring that and don’t diminish that.鈥�

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PROJECT: The Ackerly at Reed’s Crossing

LOCATION: Hillsboro

SIZE:听182 residential units

COST:听not provided

START DATE: August 2021

ANTICIPATED END DATE: early 2023

DEVELOPER: Rembold

ARCHITECT: Ankrom Moisan Architects

ENGINEERS: AAI Engineering (civil), Kramer Gehlen & Associates (structural)

CONTRACTOR:听Pence Construction

OTHER ASSOCIATES: Angelo Planning Group (land use), Marx|Okubo (accessibility), Mayer/Reed (landscape), Morrison Hershfield (envelope)

SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT: The Ackerly at Reed’s Crossing will feature a total of 182 units 鈥� 89 independent living, 65 assisted living and 28 boutique-style memory care units. Planned amenities include multiple dining venues, a theater, a library and game room, fitness and wellness spaces, a salon, a gourmet bistro with on-site chef’s garden and more. Residents also will have access to Reed’s Crossing’s parks, trails and green spaces, including the 23-acre greenway that runs through the community.

鈥淭he pandemic has taught us how important it is to keep family close,鈥� said Eric Peterson, vice president of operations at Reed’s Crossing. 鈥淲ith the addition of The Ackerly at Reed’s Crossing, older adults can live near their children and grandchildren while still retaining their independence, giving everyone what they need to thrive.鈥�

Reed’s Crossing by Newland, owned in a joint venture partnership between North America Sekisui House LLC (NASH) and , is a 463-acre mixed-use, master-planned community. It is managed by Brookfield Properties. Once completed, Reed’s Crossing will include 3,300 new homes from an array of builders. Built with lifestyle in mind, the community features housing options for all life stages, green spaces with outdoor seating and picnic areas, and a number of proposed elementary and middle schools. The Ackerly is located in Reed’s Crossing’s 34-acre Town Center, which is planned to include restaurants, a grocery store, shops and services as well as a Providence Health Center, which is set for completion in summer 2022.

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A new Multnomah County headquarters for the Oregon Department of Human Services is quickly taking shape at one of Gresham’s busiest intersections.

TVA Architects designed the three-story, 95,000-square-foot structure, which is being built by general contractor Pence Construction on the southwest corner of Southeast Stark Street and 223rd Avenue. The building will feature a structural steel and concrete slab on deck framework as well as a generous use of glazing. There will be enough space to allow the state agency to consolidate several existing county locations. The project is being developed by Rubicon Investments, which will lease the building to ODHS.

Ground was broken in July 2020, Pence Construction project manager Perry Smick said. The team had to navigate late summer wildfires, as well as a winter storm that froze construction activities for nearly a week. Nevertheless, Smick said, the team is actually ahead of schedule.

鈥淭he schedule got affected by some of those delays, but we’ve been making up time,鈥� he said.

Currently, interior steel framing work is taking place along with installation of plumbing, electrical, fire suppression and mechanical systems.

鈥淲e poured our last major concrete pour on the third floor last week,鈥� Smick said. 鈥淪o now it’s mostly about framing the building, mostly around the perimeter, which will lead to getting the other subcontractors going on the outside but also on the inside.鈥�

Major subcontractors involved in the project include: Sowles Company, which performed steel erection; Pence/Kelly, which carried out structural concrete work; Caliber Plumbing & Mechanical, which is performing both plumbing and mechanical scopes of work; Stoner Electric Group; Harlen’s Drywall, which is handling all interior and exterior steel-stud framing and drywall; Skyline Sheet Metal, which will install the metal panels and fiber cement panel system; and River City Glass, which will carry out glazing work.

The 5.51-acre site is actually comprised of three separate tax lots. Two single-story buildings 鈥� a Plaid Pantry store and Puff’s Pub 鈥� are set to remain on the property; four other buildings were demolished.

Primary vehicle access will be via 223rd Avenue, but there will be a secondary entrance via Stark Street. The main building entry will be on the property’s south side, with another for employees on the north side. Eight interior parking stalls on the ground floor will be reserved for child welfare staff vehicles and will also be used by ODHS clients when privacy is required.

The primary entrance will feature a two-story lobby with full-height glass facing south and a two-story glass opening facing 223rd Avenue. Doors will open to both the east and west.

Exterior materials include ribbed and flat metal panels as well as a high-density fiber cement panel system.

The site is huge, Smick said, but it’s mostly parking for 288 vehicles. Not much underground work is required because of soil conditions. Bioswales are being built around the site’s exterior to handle runoff from the building, along with a half-dozen dry wells to handle high-water events.

鈥淥n the other side of town, (soil) has more clay, but here there’s a lot of gravel to it and I think it probably has to do with the (Columbia River) Gorge,鈥� Smick said. 鈥淚t drains really well, and basically, we’re not connecting to any existing city stormwater (infrastructure); it’s all handled on site.鈥�

The project team is scheduled to finish by December. A Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design silver rating will be pursued.

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The MorningStar at Laurelhurst memory care center project won approval on Thursday via a 4-1 vote by the Portland Design Commission.

The five-story, 118,685-square-foot development will be built on a 42,757-square-foot site at Northeast Sandy Boulevard, 31st Avenue and Hassalo Street. The project is from MorningStar Senior Living of Denver. Ankrom Moisan Architects is designing the building, and Pence Construction is on board as general contractor.

Design commissioners attached several conditions of approval that will have to be met in a staff review. The conditions involve architectural details such as requiring louvers to have more body around them. A loading bay was required to be covered by a canopy. Canopies along Sandy Boulevard were required to project out at least 4 feet from their piers.

The project team previously appeared before the Design Commission for a hearing in January.

鈥淚t’s always an interesting process, and we always appreciate the commissioners’ time,鈥� Ankrom Moisan Architects project manager David Howard said.

The building will be clad primarily in brick and stucco with metal panels. Structured parking will provide 65 spaces.

The project team is on track to break ground late this year, Howard said.

The property is owned by a limited liability company in La Jolla, California.

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Structural steel erection for a new gymnasium at Tigard High School is wrapping up as crews approach the end of a two-year, $66 million expansion and renovation project.

The school, constructed during the postwar building boom, has received some 18 remodels over the years. General contractor Pence Construction is carrying out the latest improvements, thanks to money from a $291.3 million bond approved by voters in 2016.

鈥淭his high school was built in the 1950s; that was its first iteration,鈥� said Eric Nesse, Tigard-Tualatin School District‘s bond support administrator. 鈥淚t’s really been a Frankenstein job with many additions. Our architect has a little historic card with all the different colors from all the different remodels.鈥�

The project, designed by Bassetti Architects, is taking place in two phases; renovations and new construction are covering a total of approximately 153,000 square feet. In the first phase, workers expanded an existing classroom wing for business and career and technical education, built a new wing with administrative space and a large common area highlighted by a learning stair, installed new turf for athletic fields, and constructed new tennis courts.

In the second phase, now under way, crews are building a new auxiliary gym that will connect with the new common area and an expanded cafeteria.

鈥淭here will also be the courtyard,鈥� Nesse said. 鈥淎nd there’s a little breezeway that will be locked with a fence across it to the old building that will create a secure area. Looking into the auxiliary gym area, this is actually sort of a pit. There’s a walkway all the way around the gym that’s kind of sunken like a pit, with the basketball court down below at a lower level.鈥�

All of that is now evident as completion of construction is now in sight.

鈥淲e’re in phase two, but there are still some odds and ends to take care of from phase one,鈥� Pence Construction project superintendent Kurt Schwabauer said. 鈥淭hey’ve been using (the new wing) all year and everyone seems to be pretty happy.鈥�

While DSL Builders of Salem is finishing structural steel work for the gym, Fred Shearer & Sons of Beaverton is building walls as well as connecting new structures with existing ones.

鈥淭he ironworkers are out there, and now the framers are here from Fred Shearer and they do the interior and exterior framing,鈥� Schwabauer said. 鈥淭hey’ve got a pretty big package; they’re doing the interior and exterior framing (and) they’re doing the drywall and the insulation and the weather barrier.鈥�

Fred Shearer & Sons also is performing finish carpentry and installing custom wooden ceilings throughout much of the new space. Other major subcontractors on the job include Prairie Electric and Oregon Cascade Plumbing & Heating.

鈥淥regon Cascade has our plumbing and heating package,鈥� Schwabauer said. 鈥淭heir labor force does the wet side of things, and then they’ve hired Salem Heating to do the dry side.鈥�

For now, crews are scrambling to get roofing into place and the new gym dried in as spring approaches. This summer will mark two years of work on the project.

鈥淲ith final phase 2 delivery, building turnover (will be) in early August and the parking lot will be done at the end of the summer,鈥� Schwabauer said.

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A $408 million bond for Hillsboro School District, approved by voters in November 2017, is fueling construction of two new elementary schools, one replacement elementary school, and renovations/expansions of two high schools.

One of the latter is for Glencoe High School, which opened in 1980. BLRB Architects designed a project 鈥� estimated to cost $31.3 million 鈥� that will add more than 30,500 square feet of space to the campus so that enrollment can grow as expected. Pence Construction is serving as general contractor.

鈥淭he existing campus is from the early ’80s, and this is one of four additions being added here,鈥� Pence Construction project manager Adam Rondeau said as he pointed to one new building. 鈥淲e’re calling this Building 2; it’s a cafeteria and an eating hall. There’s no kitchen facilities per se, but it will add space.鈥�

The cafeteria even features a structural steel beam signed by students and staff. It was erected during a September ceremony attended by the entire school.

鈥淲e’re filling in the gap between the cafeteria and the existing building with this added eating hall,鈥� Rondeau said. 鈥淭he capacity is about 400 and that matches the capacity we’re adding to the school with the additional classrooms, which is about a dozen additional classrooms in all.鈥�

A 23,000-square-foot wing being added to the front of the school will hold a new media center, health science classrooms and a lab, counseling staff offices and conference rooms. Also, the main entrance has been redesigned: Access into the building will now come via a new, locked vestibule.

In an earlier phase, existing career and technical education classrooms were redesigned and improved. At the same time, the south parking lot reserved for staff and visitors was rebuilt with a new circulation pattern and a new shelter for students waiting to board buses. These improvements were completed over the summer. A similar upgrade is planned for the north student parking lot next summer.

Any remaining tenant improvements and interior work also is expected to wrap up during summer 2020.

鈥淎ll four of the building additions are under way now,鈥� Rondeau said. 鈥淲e have a new entry/media building, and if you come in through the south parking lot you probably saw the big new building with the DensGlass. That’s going to be the biggest of the four additions.鈥�

Finally, the school’s athletic teams will get a new weight training facility and a new team room. Both will be additions to an existing building.

鈥淚t’s going to more than double the space they have for their team training,鈥� Rondeau said. 鈥淎nd then we have a team room, which is effectively another locker room being added.鈥�

A similar renovation and expansion project 鈥� estimated to cost $27.2 million 鈥� is taking place at Hillsboro High School. There, crews began work in March and expect to finish by August 2020.

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Evergreen Public Schools in Vancouver, Washington, is putting to work $695 million of bond money approved by voters in February 2018. Dozens of school buildings are being renovated or replaced; one of the first is Sifton Elementary School, in Northeast Vancouver.

General contractor Pence Construction is tackling the $38 million project to replace an existing school built in 1958. The new, two-story, 62,000-square-foot Sifton Elementary will be the first of multiple new schools produced from a prototype design by LSW Architects.

Construction crews broke ground in April. These days, large glulam structural members are being erected for the gymnasium and auditorium, and exterior and interior walls are being framed. Soon, other tradespeople will arrive on site to begin rough-in work, but right now framers are working to get the building roofed and dried in before weather becomes harsher.

Wood framing is being used for the new school.

鈥淚t was a judgment call that we made early on in the design process,鈥� R&C Management Group senior project manager Dan Bodell said. 鈥淭wo years ago, construction costs were going nuts. Now, it’s not the same month-to-month creep that was going on; it’s a little more like a three-percent-a-year kind of cost creep. But we had to think: What can we do in the bones of the building to save money? And that’s why we went to wood framing.鈥�

Crews with Salem-based DSL Builders are framing interior walls away from the main building and using a crane to fly them into place.

鈥淓verybody will do some level of pre-fabbing,鈥� Bodell said. 鈥淏ut here it’s all being done on site. At PS 22 they’re framing them in place and standing them up 鈥� not building them 100 feet away and swinging them into place. It’s just about different styles.鈥�

鈥淧S 22鈥� is a new school, not yet named, being built by general contractor Triplett Wellman Contractors on Northeast 162nd Avenue. Meanwhile, a replacement for the existing Image Elementary School is being built by Emerick Construction on Northeast 131st Avenue. All three project teams are expected to finish their work by summer 2020, in time for the facilities to open for the 2020-21 school year.

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The path to construction of a new Sifton Elementary School in Vancouver, Washington, actually started with a massive fire.

That 2013 blaze may have destroyed Crestline Elementary School, but the process to replace the building led Evergreen Public Schools officials to select a prototype by LSW Architects. The new school opened barely 18 months later and featured a design that could be used in the future.

Fast-forward to 2018, when voters approved a $695 million capital bond measure 鈥� a sizable amount of it for six new elementary schools. Naturally, officials referred to the Crestline project when beginning the new ones, including Sifton.

鈥淚t was great because we already had the prototypical design,鈥� said Gail Spolar, communications director for the school district.

Pence Construction is serving as the construction manager and general contractor for the Sifton project, which was designed by LSW Architects. Also, R&C Management Group is handling project management duties.

The original Sifton Elementary School, at 7301 N.E. 137th Ave., was built in 1958 as a single-story structure largely with a slab-on-grade foundation and concrete masonry unit (CMU) walls. The replacement structure, with a different footprint on the same property, will feature wood framing over a slab-on-grade foundation. Exposed glulam beams will be used for both practical and aesthetic reasons.

鈥淭here are not a lot of exotics in the design itself,鈥� R&C Management Group project manager Dan Bodell said. 鈥淭here are some design concepts that are more about the teaching methods, but as far as the structure itself we have a one-story gym with administrative on the front and then a two-story classroom wing and the nice views of (Mount Hood).鈥�

Although the Crestline design was the basis for the new Sifton facility, improvements have been made, according to Sue Steinbrenner, Evergreen Public Schools’ director of facilities.

鈥淥ur other prototype really had the media (center) self-contained within its own room,鈥� she said. 鈥淪o we put the libraries here front and center so you have to walk through it, which is ironically how a lot of our buildings from the 1970s are.

鈥淚t’s about being sensitive to noise issues and having spaces for the students to break out and choose how to interact,鈥� she added. 鈥淭he other big difference is splitting the commons from the gym so we can use the gym for after-hours activities and close down the academic wing and make it more about the community partnership.鈥�

The new Sifton school will have a capacity of 550 students. A single-story wing will hold the gymnasium and administrative space, along with the media center and commons. A learning stair in the commons area will serve as the bridge to the two-story classroom wing. Outside, a playground area and a soccer field will be built.

The district’s bond program calls for construction to take place through 2025. Currently, three new elementary schools are being built: replacements for Sifton and Image, and a completely new one not yet named.

One advantage of using the same design prototype on those projects, Bodell said, is that representatives of the three general contractors involved 鈥� Pence Construction, Emerick Construction and Triplett Wellman Contractors 鈥� are meeting regularly to discuss progress and go over any possible hiccups.

鈥淪ifton is a month ahead of the other two and these guys have the most learning curve,鈥� Bodell said. 鈥淏ut they can pass that information on to others. We’re pretty happy 鈥� from the R&C standpoint, there’s been great support from the district.鈥�

All three schools under construction are scheduled for delivery in time for the start of the 2020-21 school year.

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