As a young engineer at what is now GAI Consultants Inc., Gary DeJidas didn’t think his application to lead the company’s planned 1982 expansion into Florida had much chance of succeeding.
Florida executive formed three companies from the 1960s to the 1980s, becoming one of the largest concrete pumping companies in the Southeastern U.S, said a family statement.
North Carolina Dept. of Transportation mobilized crews and a detour system already in place for a highway construction project to get the busy interstate reopened.