It’s a given that the jobs that are recognized by our annual Pavement Awards are quality projects. What’s interesting is the varied challenges award recipients were willing to tackle in the everyday operation of their business.
Asphalt Contractors Inc., Union Grove, WI, showed up to remove and replace a patch on a parking lot but ended up with a project that had morphed into a milling, overlay and striping job that had to be done not only in a scarily tight time frame but in the rain -- and under the “watchful” eye of a city inspector.
Bituminous Roadways Inc., Minneapolis, MN, juggled its work among the schedules of numerous other subcontractors to upgrade an athletic facility, including paving within narrow athletics tolerances.
Garrett Paving, Athens, GA, sealcoated and striped more than 175,000 sq. ft. of roads and more than 10 parking lots while all sorts of summer school activities were taking place at a local school complex.
ACI Asphalt & Concrete, Maple Grove, MN, took on a sealcoating and striping job more than twice as big (830,000 sq. ft.) as any they’ve ever done – and that doesn’t include the patching and cracksealing and the logistical demands of moving hundreds of vehicles at an auto auction location.
Planning and logistics, job size, construction specifications, restrictive deadlines, weather issues. Those are just some of the challenges the 2018 Pavement Award recipients faced and overcame – and they’re just some of what all the industry’s contractors face on a regular basis.
Because remember: when these contractors bid on and tackled the jobs that eventually were recognized for awards, they were not tackled for that reason. They were bid and completed in their everyday line of work.
This is what contractors do.
So congratulations to these contractors, to the runners-up, and thanks to all the companies who entered work (more than triple last year’s number of entrants) they are proud of in this fourth year of our Pavement Awards.
It’s always nice to be recognized for what you do every day; it’s even more important to recognize that what you do every day is just that: what you do.
