Working safely is of vital importance when your business involves heavy equipment, underground work, asphalt paving and more. The challenge becomes even greater when your business is growing and adding new employees and projects to the mix. Sharpe Bros. has met this safety challenge head-on, and recently celebrated an entire year with no lost-time accidents.…
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Billy Goats Gruff Take Toll On V&G Bridge Team
Most heavy/highway construction crews have dealt with it allweather delays, safety concerns, last-minute change orders. But not many have to deal with a herd of livestock running wild on the job site. That distinction belongs to the project team on Vecellio & Grogans Corridor H bridge project in Moorefield, WV. Crews on the 2,200-foot-long bridge…
Read MoreCoordination Keeps V&G on Top of Greensboro Work
The new FedEx Cargo Hub in Greensboro, NC, is starting to take shape at Piedmont Triad International Airport as Vecellio & Grogan strives to provide excellent service on this enormous and complex project. The new FedEx building is nearly ready for its aircraft aprons as V&G completes site development and drainage improvements. This section of…
Read MoreWhite Rock Reaches Top Of The Heap, Quarry Ranked Largest Producer In U.S.
White Rock has cemented its reputation as a high-volume, low-cost producer of limestone aggregates. Its main quarry, situated along US-27 / Okeechobee Rd. in Miami-Dade County, FL, has been recognized as the largest-producing crushed stone location in the United States. Serving Florida’s commercial aggregate needs since 1986, White Rock has grown in both size and…
Read MoreVecellio & Grogan Makes Excellent Progress On Complex Projects
Work is on target for a $30.9 million Corridor H bridge in Moorefield, WV, Vecellio & Grogan’s largest single-bridge contract to date. The 2,200-ft.-long bridge will take traffic over agricultural land and the Potomac River, rising to a 90-ft.-height. The project involves a unique design feature, with special form liners used to give the substructure…
Read MorePatented, Continuous Process Creates High-Quality Biodiesel
Complementing its range of petroleum and fuel services, Vecenergy has entered the alternative fuel industry by partnering with BIDA (Biodiesel de Andalucia), a European technology firm which has conducted extensive research with Spain’s University of Cordoba to develop a breakthrough method for producing biodiesel. The Vecenergy BIDA method is continuous, rather than batch by batch,…
Read MoreFull Vertical Integration Leads To New Division
From commercial aggregates to liquid asphalt supply, with comprehensive roadbuilding services in between, the Vecellio Group is vertically integrated in heavy/highway construction. Since completing integration with South Florida Materials in 2004, we’ve developed an entirely new business division dealing in petroleum and fuel-related products and services, including alternative fuel production. We’re very proud of…
Read MoreVecenergy Provides Global Marketplace With Well-Integrated Services & Products
Already a leading transportation contractor and quarry operator in the United States, the Vecellio Group is rapidly expanding into the petroleum and alternative fuel industries internationally. Vecenergy is the Vecellio Group’s new energy division, providing a host of advanced, well-integrated services and products to a growing international customer base in established and emerging markets around…
Read MoreVecellio Group Asphalt Plants Earn Green Diamond Commendations
Being good neighbors is important to the Vecellio Group operations. Vecellio & Grogan subsidiary Sharpe Bros. received two “Green Diamond” commendations from the National Asphalt Pavement Association for the exemplary operation of its Greensboro, NC, asphalt plants in 2006. The Vecellio Group also had five other facilities receiving the commendation, officially known as the…
Read More$31 Million West Virginia Project Starts As North Carolina Bridge Work Ends
As bridge work on Vecellio & Grogans I-540 job in Raleigh, NC, winds down, another bridge project has started in Moorefield, WV, under V&Gs largest contract ever for a single bridge. The $30.9 million project calls for construction of a four-lane, 2,231-ft. bridge over the south branch of the Potomac River in Hardy County.…
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