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Building the A. R. Wilson Community Park

Author: Shanna McCord Crigger Posted by Shanna McCord 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

Zack Booth helps customers ride wave of success

Author: Shanna McCord Crigger Posted by Shanna McCord 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

Working Together: Concrete team rises to top of the market

Author: Shanna McCord Crigger Posted by Shanna McCord 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

Inside an internship at Graniterock: Margaret Champeny

Author: Shanna McCord Crigger Posted by Shanna McCord 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

We apologize for Graniterock email down

Author: Shanna McCord Crigger Posted by Shanna McCord Crigger on Tue, October 27th, 2015, 9:00 am

We apologize for the email service disruption Graniterock has experienced yesterday and today. Our customers are very important to us and we are working hard to get back online as soon as possible.In the meantime, our phones are still working. We hope to hear your voice.We appreciate your patience. Read More

Rock Star: Kelvin Snell of Esquivel Grading & Paving

Author: Shanna McCord Crigger Posted by Shanna McCord Crigger on Fri, October 16th, 2015, 12:13 pm

SAN FRANCISCO - Gracefully maneuvering a giant CAT paver with slow-moving rubber tracks through the narrow and congested streets of San Francisco, putting down asphalt in a straight line, isn’t easy.Kelvin Snell knows that well.As Esquivel Grading and Paving’s veteran paver operator, Kelvin has mastered the art and science of paving San Francisco.In the 32 years he’s worked for Esquivel, Kelvin has paved just about every street in the city’s 47 square miles at one time ... Read More

One of Santa Cruz's largest construction projects in years

Author: Shanna McCord Crigger Posted by Shanna McCord Crigger on Wed, October 7th, 2015, 11:38 am

SANTA CRUZ – Overlooking the Pacific Ocean, surroundedbyBrussels sprout fields, Graniterock’s Construction Division is busy on one of the largest construction projects Santa Cruz has seen in years.Graniterock is working for general contractor Swinerton Buildersto help build UC Santa Cruz’s $61 million Marine Science Campus on a 15-acre site on the city’s Westside.The Company’s $20 million chunk of the project, bid by EstimatorChris Luffman, involves earth work, excavating, grading, underground utilities, landscaping and building a new ... Read More

Inside an internship at Graniterock: Chris Yoshida

Author: Shanna McCord Crigger Posted by Shanna McCord Crigger on Wed, September 23rd, 2015, 4:05 pm

By Chris YoshidaComing out of my second year at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Graniterock gave me my first internship opportunity.Throughout the summer I met a lot of people and learned a ton about the industry.I have been guided byMatt Crigger,a private work estimator at the Construction Division Office in San Jose.With Matt’s help, I have learnedthe various components to bidding a job. Mostly I’ve worked on takeoff, but I also have been involved in bid ... Read More

And the winner is....

Author: Shanna McCord Crigger Posted by Shanna McCord Crigger on Tue, September 22nd, 2015, 2:45 pm

Graniterock has a long tradition ofengaging with Santa Cruz County fairgoers by asking passersby to take a stab at guessing the weight of one of our boulders.The winner of the boulder at last week's fair is Mark Rispaud of Capitola.Congratulations, Mark! Your guess of 932 pounds was closest. Read More

Five reasons your roads need Partial Depth Reclamation

Author: Shanna McCord Crigger Posted by Shanna McCord Crigger on Mon, September 21st, 2015, 12:36 pm

As California faces a growing crisis of crumbling roadways, it turns out there is a way to tackle our aging, broken up streetswithout going broke or sendinganother bondmeasure to the voters.Partial Depth recycling (PDR), a solution already used by many cities and counties throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, is a road rehabilitation technique that recycles the top 3-6 inches of existing pavement to improve roadway surfaces.PDR recycles your existing road, without the need for grinding ... Read More

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