When he built sand castles as a child in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Primus Suffren would imagine building larger things that might last longer than the next tide.
Pursuing that dream took him from the Caribbean to Columbus Ohio, where he earned a civil engineering degree at Ohio State University, and then to Messer Construction Co. At 33, he is a senior project manager in one of the busiest markets for Messer, which operates nine offices in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee and North Carolina.