Author: Vecellio & Grogan News

Community involvement is an important part of our commitment to doing business the right way. Through local business sponsorships of community events to non-profit endowments furthering higher education, we’re proud to sow seeds of opportunity into the lives of others to help make a difference in this world for the benefit of us all. We…

The Vecellio Family Foundation provided $110,000 in college scholarships to 11 graduating high school seniors in 2006. The scholarships are worth $10,000 each — $2,500 per year for four years, in care of the selected college or university. Independent review boards administer the scholarships, choosing recipients from selected West Virginia schools, a West Virginia conservation…

Sharpe Bros., a leading grading, paving and utilities contractor in the Greensboro/Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina, has become a division of Vecellio & Grogan, effective June 2, 2006. Vecellio & Grogan’s asphalt operations are now doing business as Sharpe Bros. throughout the region. The acquisition gives Sharpe Bros. substantial resources to fuel its continued…

  Global positioning system technology (GPS) is changing the way heavy/highway construction is performed, and Vecellio & Grogan’s North Carolina Division is showing its full potential on the I-540 and FedEx jobs in Greensboro. GPS units installed on the dozers and motor graders stay in constant communication with satellites that track their position by latitude,…

As the Interstate Highway System marks its 50th anniversary June 29, the Vecellio Group approaches a milestone of its own with close to $1 billion in Interstate contracts performed over the years. Since the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, the group’s three heavy/highway construction units — Vecellio & Grogan (V&G), Ranger Construction Industries and…

Vecellio Group is an eight-time winner in the Communicator Awards 2006 Media Competition, with the company’s newsmagazines, brochures and websites earning a Crystal Award of Excellence, four Awards of Distinction and three Honorable Mentions. The full-color VanGuard, featuring news and photos about the group and its operating units, received a Crystal Award of Excellence, the…

  White Rock Quarries, a division of Vecellio & Grogan, is fully committed to supplying aggregates for Florida’s booming construction industry. It showed this commitment — quite literally — for hundreds of business and community guests at its Miami, FL, location during a January demonstration of its massive dragline, which features an enormous 105-cu.yd. bucket.…

A total of six asphalt plants owned and operated by Vecellio Group companies have now been honored with “Green Diamond” awards for their clean, well-maintained, state-of-the-art facilities. Known officially as the Diamond Achievement Commend-ation for Excellence in Hot Mix Asphalt Plant/Site Operations, the certifications are bestowed by the National Asphalt Pavement Association. The Vecellio Group’s…

It took a super effort, but Vecellio & Grogan crews were up to the task. V&G had just seven days to shut off traffic and erect 45 steel girders for the North-South Connector bridge on its I-540 project in Raleigh, NC. Faced with liquidated damages of $1,000.00 an hour if traffic wasn’t restored on time, two…