On June 26, Beatrice Concrete drove concrete trucks in the Homestead Days Parade in Beatrice. The Homestead Days is an annual event organized by the Beatrice Area Chamber of Commerce Staff and Volunteers that celebrates the community and the homesteading heritage of Beatrice. The parade is one of the many activities of Homestead Days and such an awesome opportunity for Beatrice Concrete to participate in!
Husker Concrete and Constructors have been hard at work on a project at Crete Carrier’s headquarters in Lincoln located at 400 NW 56th. The project consists of expansion and renovation of it’s existing facilities.
Constructors is a sub-contractor working on building a 10,000 cubic yard parking lot. Construction for the parking lot started in June and will take 3-4 months to complete.
Sampson Construction is the General Contractor.
The Ready Mixed Concrete division in Kearney teamed up with Blessing Construction on a paving project in Ravenna at the end of May. The project consisted of repaving Navaho Road which was worn down from the frequent use of large vehicles entering and exiting the KAAPA Ethanol Plant nearby.
Approximately 3,200 yards of concrete was supplied.
Earlier this spring, Ready Mixed Concrete teamed up with Stephens & Smith Construction and the Home Builders Association of Lincoln (HBAL) for a driveway and parking lot project at the Friendship Home.
“We felt it was a great opportunity to collaborate with our industry partners to do something specifically for a community-based organization,” Ready Mixed Concrete General Manager James Hamlette said. “It was a terrific project for a worthy cause and a great opportunity to work as a team to give back to our community.”
The project involved about 15 yards of concrete donated by the Abel Foundation.
Overland Ready Mixed (ORM) is just about to wrap up work on a bike trail in Central City. The goal of the project is to create a safe walking and biking area for the people of Central City. They started work on this project at a new park in the middle of town and since have been finishing up on the southeast side of town around a subdivision (as shown in photos).
So far, ORM has supplied approximately 662 cubic yards of concrete. The General Contractor is Diamond Engineering of Grand Island. The project should be completed at the end of April 2021.
Overland Ready Mixed has been supplying concrete to the new Merrick County Hospital since the fall of 2020. The project is located on the west side of Central City. The 22.4 acres of land was donated by the Dinsdale family and will be known as the Dinsdale Health Campus. This has been a great project to be a part of since the location of the hospital is very close to the Central City plant. There will be approximately 3000 cubic yards of concrete supplied to the project.
Overland Sand & Gravel has also helped to supply a lot of fill dirt as well as crushed concrete for this project.
The General Contractor is Sampson Construction. Lottman Carpenter Construction of Lincoln is the subcontractor for foundations and floor. Rezac Construction of Lincoln is going to pour all the exterior concrete. The project is expected to be completed late 2021 or 2022.
Ready Mixed Concrete and Husker Concrete have recently been supplying concrete to the new A1 Cabinets & Granite building located in Lincoln. Ready Mixed and Husker Concrete have collectively hauled about 3,700 yards of concrete to the project to date. Ayars & Ayars is the general contractor.
The Allen Training Complex at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln is a 46,000 square-foot facility, located northwest of the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Practice gyms, locker rooms, team meeting rooms, athletic therapy areas and offices for both the Husker men’s and women’s gymnastics programs are included in the complex.
Concrete contractors throughout the project were JA Concrete Construction, Stephens & Smith Construction and Elliot Concrete Construction.
The Clark Enersen Partners were the architects on the project.
