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Rock Star puts up the good fight for position in construction
Posted by Shanna Crigger on Thu, October 18th, 2018, 12:45 pm
SAN JOSE – Sheree Schoenherr doesn’t get pushed around.A no-nonsense Midwesterner who came to operations from construction accounting and finance, Sheree is a tested and proven project manager who knocks out heavy civil infrastructure projects with a calm, level head.“I was always fascinated by the operations and work going on in the field,” the Missouri native said. “I had to learn the field stuff, which was extremely challenging. But I was never intimidated by the forecasts ... Read More
Graniterock helps Half Moon Bay Library go for LEED gold with green concrete
Posted by Shanna Crigger on Fri, August 3rd, 2018, 5:12 pm
HALF MOON BAY – With about 1,000 yards of sustainable concrete, Graniterock played a key role in the city of Half Moon Bay’s goal of building an environmentally-friendly library that would achieve LEED gold status.The $24 millionlibrary project, 22,000-square-foot in size, is designed to be San Mateo County’s first net zero energy building, including solar panels, EV charging stations, a living roof and other energy-reducing features.Green concrete from Graniterock is a major component of the project ... Read More
Graniterock loader operator Bobby Brewer moves aggregate like nothing else matters
Posted by Shanna Crigger on Fri, July 13th, 2018, 2:47 pm
Aromas– Every morning Bobby Brewer climbs seven steel rungs up the side of a 992K Cat loader at the A. R. Wilson Quarry, slides into the cab, cranks up Metallica on XM Radio and starts living his childhood dream.Sitting 19 feet off the ground, Bobby grabs the loader’s steer stick with his left hand and maneuvers the yellow behemoth to an area of blasted aggregate he scoops up, 16 yards at a time, and bails over ... Read More
This construction team leads the charge on partial depth recycling
Posted by Shanna Crigger on Fri, May 11th, 2018, 4:29 pm
HAYWARD – The Wirtgen 3800 recycling machine, moving slow and steady down the street straight as an arrow, pulverizes six inches of old worn out asphalt as it goes.The chewed up asphalt is immediately re-mixed with oil inside the Wirtgen for a fresh life and spit back out where it’s picked up by a paver and put back down like it just came from a hot plant.In the amount of time you can catch up with ... Read More
Redwood City building materials team beats the odds
Posted by Shanna Crigger on Thu, April 26th, 2018, 12:06 pm
REDWOOD CITY – Bet against Graniterock’s building materials team in Redwood City and you’re sure to lose.This agile, six-man team - fighting tooth and nail for every sale they get in the fiercely competitive San Francisco Bay Area market - has proven they can take a punch or two and bounce back stronger than before.With customer service that exceeds expectations and genuine camaraderie between each other, the northern building materials team has slowly and methodically carved ... Read More
Way more than a forklift operator
Posted by Shanna Crigger on Thu, March 15th, 2018, 10:12 am
REDWOOD CITY – Amador Martinez is known for his first impressions.Customers arriving toGraniterock’s building materialsyard in Redwood City in search of natural stone for a residential or commercial project are greeted by Amador as he’s moving and organizing boulders and giant stacks of stone around the yard with his forklift.He’s quick with a smile and doesn’t hesitate to hop off the forklift to answer a question or point a customer in the right direction.A veteran of ... Read More
Premier pipe company has deep Croatian roots
Posted by Shanna Crigger on Wed, February 21st, 2018, 2:01 pm
WATSONVILLE – Before owning a successful pipe company, 86-year-old Chris Kristich lived in poverty with very little education in former communist Yugoslavia.He was the youngest of seven siblings and remembers going days without food and running water while growing up.In 1956, dirt poor and frustrated with President Josip Tito’s oppressive dictatorship, Chris snuckonto a 15-foot boat with five other people in the dead of night and fled to Italy, where he would live in a refugee ... Read More
From spreader truck driver to plant engineer
Posted by Shanna Crigger on Mon, January 22nd, 2018, 9:48 am
REDWOOD CITY – Dave Voris had never seen a spreader truck, much less driven one, when he interviewed for the job of spreader truck driver at Graniterock in 1995.“I had my Class A commercial license and knew I could drive anything,” he said. “It turned out to be a great fit, both the company and the job.”Coming from Langley Hill Quarry near La Honda, where he was introduced to heavy equipment and industrial work after graduating ... Read More
Rose Ann Woolpert holds firm to family business
Posted by Shanna Crigger on Tue, January 2nd, 2018, 3:18 pm
Rose Ann Woolpertwas born into a family business.Her father opened Orange County’s first Good Humor ice cream business in 1949 and ran it for many years with help from his wife and children.Decades later, Rose Ann married into another family business, albeit larger, when she met Bruce Woolpert and became part of the Graniterock family.Today, Rose Ann sits on Graniterock’s Board of Directors, a position she assumed in 2012 after her husband’s unexpected passing.Although she doesn’t ... Read More
A superintendent who wears several hats
Posted by Shanna Crigger on Tue, December 5th, 2017, 3:12 pm
MORGAN HILL – One of the things that’s kept Dave Sornberger of Trinchero Construction employed full-time, no matter the economy, is his ability to run every piece of heavy equipment.Those skills were crucial early in his career when he had a wife and baby at home.Now, as Trinchero’s veteran superintendent during a time of remarkable demand for construction services throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Dave is still the company’s main paving operator.“I learned early on ... Read More
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