Bill Bramschreiber

Bill Bramschreiber joined Pankow in 1981 after graduating from Purdue University with a B.S. degree in construction engineering and management. He spent his first four years with the company as a field engineer in Hawaii. He returned to the Mainland as a newly promoted project engineer. Since 1989, he has been a project superintendent, reflecting his preference for directing work in the field.

As a field engineer, Bramschreiber worked on Honolulu Tower, a 40-story, 395-unit condominium, and Executive Centre, a 42-story, 396-unit condominium, both located in downtown Honolulu.

As a project engineer, he worked on a parking structure for the Kaiser Permanente hospital in Walnut Creek, California; the Hotel Sofitel, a 9-story, 325-room luxury hotel in Redwood City, California; and the second-level expansion of Tyler Mall, a regional shopping center located in Riverside, California.

Bramschreiber returned to Hawaii as a project engineer on the expansion and renovation of the Ala Moana Shopping Center and the construction of Honolulu Park Place, a 40-story, 437-unit luxury condominium, in downtown Honolulu. The latter project marked the last time that Pankow deployed slipform technology to erect a building. After its completion, Bramschreiber remained in Hawaii for the construction of the Special Events (Stan Sheriff) Arena on the campus of the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Before returning to the Mainland, he supervised the renovation of the Pearlridge Shopping Center, completed in 1996.

Upon his return to the Mainland, Bramschreiber supervised projects that applied design-build project delivery to the construction of health care facilities—a sector into which the Pankow company had not previously ventured. The projects included a new patient tower and entry lobby for Methodist Hospital in Arcadia, California, and a new patient tower for White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles. In this work, Bramschreiber developed and sustained a critical working relationship with the Facilities Development Division of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the agency with responsibility with reviewing, approving, permitting, and inspecting the state’s health facility construction projects.

Bramschreiber also supervised the construction of Paseo Colorado, a retail and entertainment center that replaced the Plaza Pasadena shopping center in downtown Pasadena, California.

More recently, he supervised the construction of Fifield’s Wilshire Club View, a 21-story luxury condominium, a project that boasted the most expensive residential units built in Los Angeles to date.