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 Mike Manatt |
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Things are starting to heat up, not only the weather, but also our workload. We had a very successful July IDOT Letting. The estimators brought home the bacon. The PCC division got over $10,000,000 in new work and the Paradigm division got over $440,000. The bidding was tight, but it felt good to finally get some work. The largest job was Mahaska County in Eddyville with over 170,000 sy of paving. This job is a two-year project with a lot of work to start this fall. |
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Warren County is paving two locations with a total of about 30,000 sy to be paved. Page County is a bonded overlay with over 70,000 sy of paving. Norris Asphalt was low bidder in the Greene County project and we will be a sub to them for Paradigm work to total approximately 82,000 sy. Great job to all involved! This has been a very different year for work than usual. Duane has been in Wichita since spring reconstructing a one-mile section of interstate north of downtown (see pictures). Most of his crews are new hires from the Wichita area and are doing a good job on a very complex project. Paunch and crew moved down and are now paving the first stage. When they come back they will probably do the Wal-Mart in Oskalooska, 3 miles of county paving in Marion Co. and the Missouri job before starting Eddyville. Mike V and crew have been working in Ames on 6th Street, a very staged and difficult project with a lot of utilities. Between paving 6th Street, Cortney has done one Boone project and Sully. They have two more Boone jobs; Story City, Baxter, and Cedar Rapids Airport. They will probably head for Wichita for the second phase of paving sometime in October. Brian and the crushing crew are in Troy Mills crushing for WQI (see pictures on left). They will then head to Coralville to crush recycle for Phase 2, then off to Greene County to Paradigm for Norris. Little Kenny and crew have finished Phase 1 of the Coralville project (see pictures on page 8) and are helping Chico’s crew until Phase 2 is ready. Jeremy and crew have been all over, Ames, Boone, Lee Co., helping where needed. |
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Monte has been home recuperating from surgery; both of his crews have been busy. Larry and crew have finished Sully and moved to Boone. Scott and crew have been busy in Ames on 6th Street and 3M. Steve and Marvin and their crews have been busy maintaining and running the portable plants. In the next few weeks they will be setting up plants for Cedar Rapids Airport, Marion Co., and Warren Co. Steve will also be helping Bard with their plant in Dubuque. We have also loaned some of our people out. Lonnie and crew, after fine-tuning Hardin Co., have been helping Kurt with the reclaiming. Ron Price and Brock Buck have been helping Illowa in Durant. As you can see, our plate is filling up and we should have a very busy rest of the season. As most of you are aware, we now have first cost insurance with very high deductibles. So far this year, we have been very safe and our claims have been pretty good. Please read Nancy Ollinger’s article on page 9 for the specifics. History has shown that around the first of September we start having more incidents and claims. Let’s keep safety at the forefront and be careful the rest of the season. It takes all of us working together to be a safe, quality oriented, productive company. Have a great rest of the season. |
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