Construction Magazine September 2014 | Page 258

Bosworth Steel Erectors , Inc .
The next generation of the company means a lot to Jimmy Kepple and he ’ s got every confidence that they ’ ll be able to carry the torch . Kepple is the vice president of project management at Dallas-based Bosworth Steel Erectors , Inc . Having been with the company since 2004 , he ’ s seen Bosworth go through times of plenty and times of economic downturn . Now as a selfproclaimed member of the older generation , he gives more thought to those that will take over when he eventually leaves the company . “ The one thing that you can ’ t replace and the one thing that you can ’ t train is experience ,” Kepple said . “ So what we ’ re trying to do is take [ from ] some of the older generation , which I guess I ’ m considered now , and pass some of those decades of knowledge to the younger generation to shorten the learning curve .”
Formerly a part of John F . Beasley Construction Company , the organization was founded in 1995 when John Bosworth and a few other partners purchased company assets and started Williams-Beasley , which would later become Bosworth Steel . While
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