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J.A. Jones Construction was a heavy construction company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Operating internationally since the 1950s, it merged with Germany's Philipp Holzmann AG in 1979. In 2003 the company ceased operations due to the failure of its parent company. ==History== The company was founded by James Addison Jones in the 1890s.〔(Company history )〕 One of Jones' early landmark projects was the twelve story Independence Building, Charlotte's first "skyscraper" and the soon to be first office of J.A. Jones Construction.〔Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission: ("The Independence Building" )〕 In 1930 the company won a major contract to build a new military airbase in the Canal Zone in Panama.〔(Comptroller General of the United States )〕 During World War II the company built 212 cargo ships and tankers〔(Liberty Ships )〕 and was a substantial builder of Liberty ships in support of the war effort.〔Digital Library of Georgia, ("Ships for Victory: J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia" ), 2005〕 It also built Camp Shelby in Mississippi as well as K-25 and K-27, production plants for manufacturing Uranium-235 at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.〔 In 1979 the company was acquired by Philipp Holzmann A.G.〔(''Building for tomorrow: global enterprise and the U.S. construction industry'' ), National Research Council (U.S.), 1988 p. 82〕 and under that company's ownership Jones went on to build the 88-story Petronas Towers, for a while the tallest buildings in the world.〔(Petronas Towers )〕 However Holzman got into financial difficulties in the late 1990s and this led to the bankruptcy of Jones in 2003〔Gordon Wright, (For sale: J.A. Jones Construction Co. ), ''Building Design & Construction'' news, June 01, 2003〕〔("VT Griffin Services Acquires Contracts from Bankrupt J.A. Jones" ), ''Business Wire'', December 23, 2003〕 and subsequent sale of Jones' subsidiaries as going concerns.〔BeaQuirk, ("Former J.A. Jones units find life after bankruptcy" ) ''The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area'', August 20, 2004〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「J.A. Jones Construction」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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