Lungren is President of Grantlun Corporation and Manager of its subsidiary, Ironworks LLC. He holds an Arizona State University Bachelor of Science in Construction Engineering and an MBA. He has held contractor licenses in five states and a professional civil engineer (EIT) certificate in California. Lungren’s industry affiliations include past service as a member, director or officer of the Associated General Contractors Arizona Heavy Highway Chapter, the American Council of Construction Education, the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering, the Hard Dollar Education Council, the Arizona State University Construction Advisory Council, the Arizona Construction Training Center, the Arizona State Governor’s Committee on Highway Construction, and the Beavers Heavy Engineering Construction Association.
Tanner Construction
Lungren’s early experience as an equipment operator, job superintendent, construction engineer, project manager, chief estimator, and general manager prepared him to serve from 1981 to 1990 as president of Tanner Construction. In that time, Lungren’s hand-picked team transformed Tanner from a local Arizona paving contractor to the nation’s then-largest federal highway bridge contractor. At its peak, Tanner was licensed to work in five states in the Southwest and employed 1,500 craftsmen and construction professionals.
Grantlun
Lungren founded Grantlun Corporation in 1989 to create a fully integrated project cost estimating and project management system for infrastructure contractors. That mission was accomplished when, in 1999, Grantlun’s superb reputation in the construction industry, including its Hard Dollar Estimating Office System and its Hard Dollar Project Execution System, attracted investors. Grantlun was sold and renamed Hard Dollar.
In 2002, after building a roadmap for Hard Dollar’s next-generation features, Lungren left his positions as chairman and CEO of Hard Dollar and relaunched Grantlun with a new mission to provide executive management consulting services to infrastructure contractors. Grantlun has provided such services to hundreds of construction firms across North America.