Aggregates & Asphalt

The Nevada Chapter of the Associated General Contractors held it’s ninth annual Pinnacle awards ceremony November 16th at the Harrah’s Reno Convention Center to honor the “Best of the Best” in northern Nevada construction projects.  Recipients of these awards must show leadership, excellence and community spirit.  For the category of Sensitivity to Environment, History or Culture the criteria included innovative construction techniques to minimize environmental impacts, maintaining significant cultural/historical design aspects of a site and inclusion of alternative energy sources and appropriate energy or water conservation management.

“When A&K Earth Movers decided to take on the Virginia City Cemetery project, they knew they had to keep it’s historical look and yet bring the project into the 21st century.”  “A&K was asked to put in a new road through the cemetery, direct the drainage away from graves, install 2,400 feet of new irrigation with the required electrical control lines, and use 55,000 square feet of Poly Pavement to keep the roads in good repair for decades to come.”  Northern Nevada Business Weekly

A&K employed anthropologists to locate the 6,000 bodies buried in the cemetery to make sure none were disturbed during construction.  A&K completed the cemetery on budget and the cemetery site remained open to visitors for the Memorial Day and Fourth of July holidays; receiving praises from the executive director of the Comstock Cemetery Foundation and the district administrator for the Comstock Historic District Commission.