I want to personally thank and congratulate Staker Parson Companies for a job well done and let you know that it was pleasure to work with you, Travis Allen and the many others behind the scenes to make the deadline and give our client a quality project.

I would highly recommend Staker Parson at anytime or anywhere and hope to work with you again.

General Contractor: Staker Parson

Completion Date: November 2011

Location: Box Elder County, Utah

Staker Parson Companies entered into three contracts with Box Elder county to repair damage caused by severe flooding to the Blue Creek/Hansel Valley area in Box Elder County. Blue Creek/Hansel Valley is part of a NRCS Emergency Watershed. Work included constructing waterway dips, constructing diversions and waterways and constructing three emergency watersheds. The work site encompassed 130,000 acres including private farmed lands and state and county roads.

There were many stakeholders involved on this project, including private landowners and the county. Construction had to be extremely accurate to ensure the diversions were not overbuilt but met the requirements to hold a certain capacity of water. The project team, including Staker Parson’s project manager, superintendents, NRCS and Box Elder County officials, met regularly with landowners to discuss construction activities. Because of the frequent and positive communication between the landowners and project team, the final product was satisfactory for all stakeholders.

Weather was also a challenging aspect of this job. An extremely wet spring added excess water to the work area that had already been damaged by flooding. When a storm event occurred, water was constantly moving to the work areas. Staker Parson Companies used pumps to help remove excess water and changed work patterns from north to south so that water from a storm was held above the work area without creating a flood situation. Staker Parson’s job foreman left his home at 3:30 am most mornings to check the work conditions as it was hard to determine if it was going to rain or how much it would rain. Because of several rained-out days, Staker Parson employed 10 D8 dozers working 7 days a week to maintain the construction schedule.

• 1.1 million cubic yards of material moved
• 1,800 cubic yards concrete

Western Rock Products received the Best Rural Highway Project Award for its work on the Utah Department of Transportation’s (UDOT) Milepost 46 to Kanab, US-89 reconstruction. UDOT nominated Western Rock to receive the award, commending the company for its safe completion of the challenging project. Western Rock had 120 days to complete the project and, through careful preparation and planning, along with crews working around the clock, they achieved all available time bonuses. The project included extensive bridgework, earthwork and headwalls. The award was accepted by Western Rock Project Manager Shannon Davis.

Vaughn Pack, a Staker Parson employee for 37 years, was honored as Highway Project Manager of the Year. Pack has managed UDOT projects across the state from Davis County to St. George. He was the project manager for UDOT’s I-15; Farmington to Gordon Ave. project, which was presented with the National Asphalt Pavement Association’s prestigious Sheldon G. Hayes award in 2010, recognizing it as the best asphalt pavement project in the United States. Pack’s supervisor, Brandon LeFevre, said, “The technical and practical skill, dedication, responsibility and integrity required to win an award of this magnitude would almost certainly not have been achieved without the integral leadership of Vaughn on the project.”

Pack graciously accepted the award and thanked the project engineers he has worked with throughout the years. He also thanked his wife who offered support during his early career by riding along with him as he was transporting equipment late at night.

“We are honored to receive these awards from the AGC,” said Scott Parson, Staker Parson President and CEO. “These awards are a reflection of our commitment to be The Preferred Source and our world-class team of employees represented by the award recipients.”

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Just after two months of Staker Parson starting work, Logan City unexpectedly found that one of their sewer lines had collapsed and needed immediate replacement. The only way for them to install the new sewer line, which runs directly west of the existing line, was to close eight blocks of the roadway for 60 days.

“Of course this was a concern to business owners whose customers can only access their businesses from the section of the road that was closed,” says project manager Kyle Wood. Because of successful partnering between Staker Parson Companies, UDOT, Logan City and business owners, all organizations came to agreement on a satisfactory alternative. Staker Parson created an immediate detour route and a temporary traffic signal was installed to accommodate the increased traffic at the location.

Partnering has also been important to ensure the safety of school students travelling through the construction zone to the elementary school built on the corner of one of the main intersections on SR-252. Wood has worked closely with school district officials and PTA board members to make the kids aware of the safest routes to school. “We expect to have the majority of the new sidewalk in by the time school starts. We plan to put up orange safety fencing and gravel down on any unfinished areas so the kids have a clear path of travel,” Wood says. “Safety for the students, the travelling public and our employees has been a top priority on the project.” Staker Parson has worked incident free to-date.

Because of the road closure, Staker Parson accelerated their work schedule to complete sewer work and paving at the largest intersection earlier than planned. The closure has also allowed Staker Parson to accelerate concrete paving operations and complete paving at this intersection in seven pours versus the 21 pours originally planned. The intersection will be opened after 30 days, with only a few blocks of the road remaining shut down for the remainder of the 60 days.

Other work completed to-date on SR-252 includes installing a new portable batch plant, demolishing 17 homes to widen the road, roadway excavation, rotomilling and importing over 50,000 tons of trench backfill. Staker Parson’s utility subcontractor Rupp Trucking has installed16,000 linear feet of new storm drain/irrigation line, 15,000 linear feet of water line and 13,000 linear feet of ATMS conduit.

Staker Parson is on schedule to achieve substantial completion by the end of this year.

Chris Memmott, UDOT’s project manager, said “This was a difficult decision for UDOT to make. There is a significant amount of good work proceeding on the Geneva Road Project. A crew that is worthy to be selected and recognized for their excellent performance, out of all that is going on, is significant. UDOT is proud to select Jason’s crew for their exceptional workmanship in paving short distances and in confined work areas while still providing a quality product. They show up on short notice and perform in a professional manner. UDOT is proud to have Jason’s crew and Staker Parson involved in another quality project.”

Staker Parson project manager Tyler Shepherd added that Jason and his team have paved under challenging circumstances but they do it every day with a smile.

Each member of the crew was awarded a $50 gift card and general contractor Kiewit will take them to lunch to praise them for a job well done. Staker Parson will complete 75,000 tons of paving on the project.

Gov. Herbert spoke to those in attendance not just as the governor, but as a parent. He reminded parents that teenagers usually drink to get drunk. Because their brains are still developing, alcohol impairs their memory, learning capability and impulse control, and teens who drink have a greater likelihood of developing alcohol dependence. “If you’re a parent, make your disapproval of underage drinking absolutely clear,” said Gov. Herbert. “Talk to your children. Set firm rules against using alcohol. And under absolutely no circumstances provide alcohol to your teens.”

“This message holds significant personal importance to me as the father of teenagers,” said Parson. “Underage drinking is a community issue that requires a community solution. We believe that through the partnership between Staker Parson and Utah’s underage drinking prevention program, ParentsEmpowered.org, we can encourage Utah’s parents and youth to build a strong foundation for their lives by making the choice to avoid underage alcohol use. Remember, teens and alcohol don’t mix.”

At the end of the press conference, Gov. Herbert set the message in motion by turning on the concrete truck’s mixer barrel. The crowd cheered as the barrel rotated, displaying one of the new messages: “When parents set “no alcohol rules,” teens have a brighter future.”

Representatives from the Division of Alcohol and Beverage Control, Safe and Drug-Free Schools, Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health and Utah Parent-Teacher Association were also present at the event.

Completion Date: November 2010

Location: Pocatello, Idaho

Jack B. Parson Companies in Pocatello, Idaho used a GPS with electronic 3 dimensional modeling to increase excavation and grading efficiences.    On site material was reused whenever possible. We completed excavation, site grading, asphalt paving and ready-mixed concrete. This was a fast track project for the owner with incomplete design at the time of contract award.   The customer needed to be operational as soon as possible since they had standing backlog for this facility shortly after breaking ground. 

• 1,655 tons hot-mix asphalt
• 11,370 tons road base
• 16,015 tons pit run

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