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March 1 2020 Vol. III • No. 5
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Kilgore Companies Earns Top Contractor of Year Award By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT
Honesty, teamwork and customer service paid off nicely for one Utah County contractor, earning the company the 2019 Utah Department of Transportation Contractor of the Year award. The award was presented last month to Kilgore Companies Southern Utah Construction Group at the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Utah’s annual banquet. Kilgore was nominated by UDOT. Nominating the group, UDOT wrote,
“EVERY
PROJECT STARTS WITH A
TEAM OF RELATIVE STRANGERS HOLDING A FLAWED SET OF DRAWINGS, AN OVER-SIMPLISTIC PLAN OF EXECUTION, AND
INFLATED
EXPECTATIONS.
TO
THAT WE FOLD IN A MEASURE OF UNCOOPERATIVE WEATHER, A SPOONFUL OF BURIED SURPRISES, A DASH OF DESIGN CHANGES, AND A SMIDGE OF IMPATIENT
MOTORISTS,
ANXIOUS
RESIDENTS, BREAKDOWNS, SHORTAGES AND OTHER INGREDIENTS ON HAND.
THAT
CAN MAKE FOR A VERY TRICKY
RECIPE. TODAY, WE RECOGNIZE A TEAM THAT
WAS
ABLE
TO
MIX
THOSE
INGREDIENTS INTO A SUCCESSFUL AND ENJOYABLE PROJECT.”
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Members of the Kilgore Companies Southern Utah Construction Group are presented the Contractor of the Year award at the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Utah’s annual banquet.
Kilgore Companies was founded by Jason Kilgore in 2000 with a focus on paving maintenance, said Justin Nelson, director of human resources. Kilgore expanded the business to include contracting, Ready Mix and aggregates. Less than a decade ago, Kilgore had about 350 to 400 employees. Today, the company is in five western states
— Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming— with about 1,600 employees. They are an acquisitions company, Nelson said, inheriting a variety of equipment as they acquire new businesses. That gives them a varied inventory of heavy equipment. “We buy equipment and there is some we’ll lease,” Nelson said. “Some people pre-
fer one brand over another in different markets and different operators. We’re not dedicated to one. We have all of them, Cat, John Deere, Komatsu, Bobcat.” Nelson said nominations are determined by UDOT through feedback from state engineers, the motoring public and residents, as see KILGORE page 6
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