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BART extension project starts strong

Posted by Shanna Crigger on Fri, March 25th, 2016, 5:25 pm

SAN JOSE – Dirt is a huge issue on the Construction Division project to help build the final stop on a 10-mile BART extension in San Jose.Graniterock is off hauling roughly 18,000 yards of dirt from the 20-acre site to make room for the new BART police station, parking lot, bus transfer center and Station Concourse Plaza.The station includes a street level concourse and above-ground boarding platform.Located between Berryessa and Mabury roads, adjacent to the San ... Read More

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Tina Cutter keeps Redwood City asphalt business thriving

Posted by Shanna Crigger on Fri, March 4th, 2016, 1:19 pm

REDWOOD CITY – With San Francisco Bay Areaconstructionbooming in recent years, Graniterock’s asphalt plant in Redwood City has beena busy place.High demand for hot mix asphaltand other road materials means the Blomquist Street plant will sometimes run 24 hours a day to meet customers’ needs.Aggregates to feed the plant are delivered by rail from Aromas six or seven days a week, and asphalt customer trucks stream in and out the plant with increasing frequency. To keep ... Read More

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Safety top of mind for Southside team

Posted by Shanna Crigger on Fri, February 19th, 2016, 10:36 am

HOLLISTER – The Southside sand and gravel team doesn’t grab the spotlight very often, but they’re a shining example of great team work.In a rural outpost on the outskirts of Hollister, the five-person Southside team mines rock and sand from the banks of the Tres Pinos Creek, delivering consistent quality to Graniterock customers despite an ongoing battle with the raw material.“We’re always fighting the clay,” said Bill Damm, who joined the Company in 1979 and has ... Read More

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Who's going to the Superbowl?!

Posted by Shanna Crigger on Thu, February 4th, 2016, 2:37 pm

The Construction Division is helping Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara preparefor the mass of footballfans expected forSunday's showdown between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers.The work for Noel Lesley Events Services waswon by estimatorBryan Jones.Graniterock has installeda security perimeterwithk-rail around the stadium and builttemporary driveways to access the various sports fields.Thanks goes to Field SupervisorFred Simpson, Travis Sakamoto, Kenneth JermonandAngela Flores. Read More

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Smoothness & intelligent compaction on Hwy 25

Posted by Shanna Crigger on Thu, February 4th, 2016, 1:51 pm

Graniterock’s Construction team partnered with Caltrans on a partial depth/overlay pilot project on a 6-mile stretch of Highway 25 south of Hollister that produced solid results.The $2.7 million project focused on two aspects: smoothness and intelligent compaction, which is a new spec coming out for Caltrans using GPS technology and computerized compaction technology installed on the rollers.The PDR portion of the project, an emulsion form of PDR, was performed by a subcontractor (Graniterock’s PDR team uses ... Read More

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Graniterock pitches in for new bocce ball court in Santa Cruz

Posted by Shanna Crigger on Wed, January 13th, 2016, 11:42 am

Graniterock teamed up with the Santa Cruz Host Lions Club to build a bocce ball court at Harvey West Park after learning the Santa Cruz Parks and Recreation Department was stuck without the financial resources to carry out the project.Custom Project ManagerEd Jenkins, a member of the Lions Club, helped form a partnership where donations from the Lions Club and Graniterock allowed the project to move forward and break ground in October.The work involved grading and ... Read More

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Building the A. R. Wilson Community Park

Posted by Shanna Crigger on Mon, January 11th, 2016, 11:02 am

AROMAS -Just outside the A. R. Wilson Quarry in Aromas, Construction Division crews are helping tobuilda new park for the small town, which will be named after Graniterock's founder.The grading and paving work under way is one phase of a larger project coming in the near future if the Aromas Community Center Foundation can find the funding to complete their vision of a large recreation area with baseball and soccer fields -called A. R. Wilson Community ... Read More

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Zack Booth helps customers ride wave of success

Posted by Shanna Crigger on Thu, January 7th, 2016, 11:28 pm

Zack Booth moved into Graniterock’s concrete sales in the San Francisco Bay Area at the worst time imaginable.It was 2008, the outset of the Great Recession.The economy was in a downward spiral and the few concrete projects available went for bargain prices.But Zack knew what he was doing.He had spent several years at the company’s concrete and building materials branch in Santa Cruz - sharpening his sales experience and following building permits - before the call ... Read More

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Working Together: Concrete team rises to top of the market

Posted by Shanna Crigger on Tue, November 24th, 2015, 9:59 am

Working Together:REDWOOD CITY – If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area concrete business, “slow days” don’t exist. In fact, no one on this team has seen one since the economy picked up in 2012.The Silicon Valley’s red-hot private construction market means the Redwood City and San Jose concrete plants are overbooked nearly every day, and finding available mixer trucks can be a real challenge.Constant high demand is just one of the major changes the concrete ... Read More

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Inside an internship at Graniterock: Margaret Champeny

Posted by Shanna Crigger on Thu, November 5th, 2015, 11:29 am

I experienced so much at Graniterock while working here over the summer, such as getting to explore the A. R. Wilson Quarry, which sits directly on the San Andreas Fault.Visiting the quarry gave me a view of fault geology that I would have never experienced in any other fashion. And I had the chance to teach a group of middle school students about geology.When you’re a student, it’s not often you get to actually apply the ... Read More

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