Entrepreneur, engineer, contractor can all be described as who is Lester Bradshaw Jr. But contractor is where Les's foundation began and where his heart lies. Les can be further described as one of the more unique individuals in this era of trenchless construction, as he is principally a microtunneler. However, that's not where it all began. Way back working with his father, Les was introduced to hand-mined tunneling work. He graduated into mechanical tunneling and auger boring. I purposely use the word graduated because Les notably is a civil engineering graduate from Georgia Tech and he also has an MBA from Harvard. He and his company Bradshaw Construction Corp. have advanced to be one of the foremost microtunneling contractors in the United States. Always anxious to promote the development of microtunneling, he was a founding member of the North American Microtunneling Association (NAMA) and was its first chairman. He was a strong leader in the development of ASCE's Microtunneling Guidelines. Microtunneling has had numerous innovations since its first introduction to the United States in the 1980s. Curved microtunneling, pilot tube tunneling, hard rock tunneling, slurry muck removal, and longer drives are all now taking place and Les has been at the forefront of all of this.
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