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Loyalty a two-way street for successful Colorado contractor T-Bone Construction

Loyalty a two-way street for successful Colorado...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Apr 01, 2013

With a company he built from the ground up starting in 1987, Michael Thibault's T-Bone Construction in Colorado Springs was ...

Diversity, flexibility lead North Carolina’s Mitch Cox Construction through recession

Diversity, flexibility lead North Carolina’s...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Apr 01, 2013

Mitch Cox, president and CEO, Mitch Cox Companies Editor’s Note: Mitch Cox was a finalist for 2012 Contractor of the ...

Husband and wife’s business savvy spell success for Texas contractor

Husband and wife’s business savvy spell success for...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Mar 27, 2013

Ken and Melissa Lester By the time he graduated from high school, Ken Lester, president of Lester Contracting, Port Lavaca, ...

Father and sons team up for growth and diversity at R.L. Caudill Construction

Father and sons team up for growth and diversity at...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Mar 27, 2013

Stuart Caudill, owner of R.L. Caudill Construction,  Owingsville, Kentucky, and his brothers Robert and Shannon learned to operate equipment from ...

Communication brings Massachusetts contractor through tough times

Communication brings Massachusetts contractor through...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Mar 27, 2013

Richard Gordon Richard Gordon has been operating equipment since he was a kid, running Bobcats around in the yard, the ...

Smart, skilled class of contractors necessary to navigate worst recovery in modern history

Smart, skilled class of contractors necessary to...

Posted by Tom Jackson on Mar 26, 2013

In this era of partisan news both sides will spin any facts any way to make their side look better. ...

Recession-weary Ala. construction firm auctions $26 million in earthmoving equipment

Recession-weary Ala. construction firm auctions $26...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Mar 19, 2013

A Caterpillar D6R sits on a trailer bed of a Racon, Inc. truck. The equipment is part of the ...

Scott Kelly of ETTI named Equipment World’s 2013 Contractor of the Year

Scott Kelly of ETTI named Equipment World’s 2013...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Mar 10, 2013

Scott Kelly, President of Enterprise Trenchless Technologies Inc., has been named Equipment World's 2013 Contractor of the Year. ETTI serves the ...

Recession-proof decisions lead North Carolina contractor to the top

Recession-proof decisions lead North Carolina...

Posted by Amy Materson on Mar 04, 2013

Gene Lowder, owner of Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based Charles D. Lowder, Inc., has a remarkable track record of good decision-making. The firm, ...

Nitteberg Construction Co., small South Dakota town share a bond

Nitteberg Construction Co., small South Dakota town...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Mar 01, 2013

Each February, Gale Nitteberg, his wife and their grandchildren pack up and head south for about month to escape the ...

Entrepreneurial spirit serves North Carolina’s Page & Associates well in tough times

Entrepreneurial spirit serves North Carolina’s...

Posted by Marcia Gruver Doyle on Mar 01, 2013

Jane Page, left, with daughter Mary Jane Scott, and son Bud Page. Editor’s Note: Jane Page was a finalist for ...

Teeth from one of the baleen whale fossils. Credit: Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center

Construction crew uncovers fossils of four new whale...

Posted by Wayne Grayson on Feb 22, 2013

Teeth from one of the baleen whale fossils. Credit: Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center   Construction crews on both coasts of ...

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