The company wins a contract to take over the construction of 12 bridges as part of the relocation of Route 32 in Odenton, MD.

C.A. Murren wins a contract with Joseph Alfandre & Company to retrofit 3 storm water management lakes and dams on a 300-acre site adjacent to the National Geographic Society’s world headquarters in Gaithersburg, MD.

Charlie begins to run C.A. Murren Construction, Inc. full-time.

C.A. Murren is awarded a contract with Tarheel Underground Utilities as a subcontractor to Southern Bell. The work entails removing 3 concrete communication vaults, located under roadways in Metro Atlanta, and replacing them with new cast-in-place vaults two to three times the size.

C.A. Murren construction wins another contract with Pulte Homes to clear and grade 72 house lots. The project also includes forming and pouring house slabs, driveways, and walks; doing the final grade; and landscaping all yards.

The side business is successful enough to go from a sole proprietorship to a corporation and C.A. Murren Construction, Inc. is born.

Charlie negotiates a contract with Pulte Homes. With the aid of his wife, Lynda, he takes on the concrete work for driveways and walkways in a new 34-lot subdivision.

While working full-time for Kiewit as an engineer, Charles A. Murren starts a small weekend business cleaning out catch basins and storm drain lines and repairing curbs and gutters for subdivision developers.