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Integrating Large and Small Jobs
Ellsworth Construction steps up to tackle massive Smith Farms paving project
By Allan Heydorn
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We don't fight them, we work with them," says Nathan Ellsworth, vice president of Ellsworth Construction Co., an Oklahoma paving contractor that has spent the last few years stepping up from small jobs to large parking lot projects. And it's that "work with them" approach that has fueled the contractor's recent growth, enabling it to integrate the large paving projects with the smaller projects that have been the company's mainstay for years.
Ellsworth says that until recently the company did not pursue large jobs because the contractor didn't think they could be competitive on the big jobs while still making a good profit.
"The work was always out there, we just didn't go after it," Ellsworth says. "For the longest time we just sat in place and waited for someone to call us to place some asphalt. Now we're just stepping up into the arena and taking our chunk of it.
"The smaller jobs are our bread and butter and we have to keep them going no matter what other jobs we take or how big the other jobs are," Ellsworth says. "In 2005 we ran one crew and we realized if we were going to commit to those large projects we were going to have to do something different."
So they added a second paving crew – and the equipment to support it – and "decided to seize the opportunity."
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