Davinette Stam was introduced to the construction industry while doing administrative and clerical work for a startup company that planned to build a silicon wafer manufacturing plant in Hillsboro. She gained several years of experience in reading blueprints, facilities operations, manufacturing and preventive maintenance.

“It gave me a sense that this is somewhere I want to be. I liked being out in the field and seeing how things got built,” she said.
She started JDS Steel in 2023 and partners with companies that are looking for a COBID-certified business to complete structural steel work on bridges and buildings.

“I had fallen in love with this, had been doing it for many years and was drawn to learn the process,” she said. “I am a women-owned, minority-owned business and I can do project management. I can also work with general contractors and help buy out the steel packages.”

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Portland International Airport is in the midst of a series of large construction projects dubbed PDX Next that will see a host of renovations and new construction over the next six years. The most prominent of those projects is an 830-foot long expansion of passenger Concourse E on the airport’s north side that will re-balance how the air carriers who serve PDX are organized across the airport’s four main terminals.

Dubbed the Terminal Rebalancing, the project includes construction of six new gates that will allow the largest two air carriers at PDX, Alaska Air Group and Southwest Airlines, to reorganize their aircraft. Southwest Airlines will move from Concourse C to Concourse E when the project is finished, while Alaska will spread out between Concourse B and C on the south side.

The $215 million expansion broke ground last summer and still has roughly two years to go until completion. For now, check out this photo gallery of ongoing construction, which remains below grade at this stage but will soon include installation of structural steel.

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