![]() ![]() “Whomever comes into our shop needs to be hungry, humble and smart,” Bailey says. If they’re not mechanically adept, there’s still a place for them in other operations. Employees learn the importance of coming to work on time while developing a work ethic. The warehouse is where the company can instill basic traits for success, Bailey explains. Successful apprentices can become company superintendents and foremen upon graduation. SEI also grooms new employees for leadership with a 4 1/2-year apprenticeship program with in-class courses and on-the-job training. This includes ethics training on how to treat colleagues personally and professionally while caring about the workplace and environment. ![]() It’s the peopleīeverly Bailey says the company has been successful because it ensures employees are heard and respected. The project also won an ABC national award in March. It won a Regional Eagle Award for Specialty Contractor – Electrical: Commercial for jobs of $2 million or less. SEI’s installation of Tesla battery storage systems at the Huntington Library in San Marino required placing them on skids to prevent damaging root systems at the library’s botanical gardens. The project was awarded the Regional Eagle Award for General Contractor – Industrial for work costing between $15 million and $25 million. The facility can inject imported water supplies to the aquifer, and the new generators will restore power to the entire facility in case of emergency. SEI installed five emergency backup generators at the Las Posas Aquifer Storage and Recovery Facility in Moorpark, California. The first was for the Calleguas Municipal Water District. Two recent SEI jobs were also award winners at the ABC Southern California Chapter Excellence in Construction celebration in November 2021. The project required building a trestle to support a crawler crane with a diesel pile hammer that drove 33, 24-inch steel tube piles into the ground to support the new bridge. Near Sacramento in Elk Grove, California, SEI is replacing a Union Pacific Railroad bridge over Laguna Creek. A second phase is ready for construction and power consumption for a new user, Bailey adds. The project was completed in 2020 and power generated is being used by Lake Elsinore Unified School District. The company also tied the solar farm into a nearby Southern California Edison substation. SEI installed a panel racking system with weighted ballasts to ensure the landfill cover system wouldn’t be penetrated or damaged. ![]() ![]() We look to win jobs through our various niches.” Award-winning workĪmong its notable projects, Beverly Bailey says SEI designed and built the first phase of a 74-acre solar farm sited on what had been the West Riverside Landfill in Jurupa Valley, California. “We adhere to our core values of quality, safety, teamwork, integrity and commitment and pick the size and scope of the work with technical challenges in remote locations. “Our company is entrepreneurial and we’ve followed the money along the way,” Beverly Bailey says. Now known as Stronghold Engineering Inc., with Scott Bailey the chief operating officer, the company provides design-build services in electrical, civil and general construction in Southern California and beyond. We lifted our hands up and looked up for guidance,” says Beverly, the company’s CEO. “We went on bent knee and asked God to lead and guide us. Beverly Bailey | Chief Executive Officer | Stronghold Engineering Inc. ![]()
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