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title: "Elevate Contractor Profiles: Baker Construction"
description: Highlighting the many contractors involved in the capital expansion program, Elevate.
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# [Elevate Contractor Profiles: Baker Construction](https://www.grr.org/news/elevatecontractors-baker)

 Written by [Blog Post](https://www.grr.org/news/author/blogs) | Feb 25, 2025 2:14:42 PM

Taking West Michigan to new heights involves many hands at work, including local contractors. The Gerald R. Ford International Airport is proud to collaborate and build deep-rooted connections with the community. We've interviewed several of these local businesses to hear their fun facts, statistics, and favorite parts of working at the Airport. A special thanks to Baker Construction.

The capital expansion program, Elevate, includes an expanded concourse, a new control tower, more parking, enhanced rental car capabilities and improved baggage inspection technology. To learn more about our partners and the economic impact, visit [https://flyford.org/elevate/community/.](https://flyford.org/elevate/community/)

## Q&A with Baker Construction

#### Please share with us a little bit about you and your company:

Baker Concrete Construction is the nation's leading commercial concrete construction contractor. Our drive is to perform safer, smarter, better, and faster.

#### Where is your company headquartered?

Monroe, OH

#### How many people work at your company?

Baker has over 7,000 employees nationwide and just over 100 employees here in Michigan.

#### How is your company supporting the ConRAC project?

Baker is providing all the site concrete as well as the concrete blast wall.

#### What are some of the specialized skills that you and your team has enjoyed bringing to this project?

Baker’s highly technical and skilled labor force safely assembled, rigged, and braced a gang form system before placing 140 cubic yards of concrete to create a 21’-6” tall concrete blast wall. We love the challenge that tall concrete walls bring, we take pride in our safety driven approach and the quality of our workmanship.

#### What is one fun fact about your company?

We were the first concrete contractor to implement a national safety program. Our Incident and Injury Free philosophy still guides us today.

 

 

 

 

 

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