Nik Bandak has joined Hughes Marino Construction Management as a project engineer. Bandak joins construction management industry experts Dean Petersen and Steven Gorup, recently promoted to project manager.

Prior to joining Hughes Marino, Bandak worked for Bechtel International on the Khalifa Port and Industrial Zone in Taweelah, United Arab Emirates, where he monitored and oversaw the daily construction activities and progress of 5,000 field workers in 53 buildings within the industrial zone borders. Prior to his work in the UAE, Bandak worked for Berkeley Cement Inc. as a project manager and estimator, managing over $30 million of projects over a two year period, including the 40,000-square-foot Social Science and Management Building at UC Merced, the nearly completed 236-foot-tall air traffic control tower, and a 13,000-square-foot building at the Oakland International Airport. Bandak graduated with a degree in financial services from Saint Mary’s College in Northern California.