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The Vecellio Family Foundation (VFF) awarded 10 college scholarships, worth $100,000, in 2003, the 31st year of the program. The scholarships provide each recipient with $10,000 — $2,500 per year for four years — in care of each student’s college or university. VFF is a charitable organization established by the principals of the Vecellio Group,…

In the highway construction industry, contractors go where the work is. For Vecellio & Grogan, that has meant a presence in North Carolina since 1979, when the company was awarded its first contract for improvements to I-40 near Wilmington. The West Virginia-based company has worked across the Tar Heel State since then, on contracts involving…

Vecellio & Grogan is building a one-mile section of four-lane bypass road off US-19 in East Beckley, WV. The project includes excavation, grading, drainage, and the construction of a retaining wall. Flaggers Roy Tingler and Roger Hogan stop traffic for Haul Truck Driver Chrisetta King on V&G’s East Beckley Bypass project. Dozer Operator Alvin Hoke…

Virginia Tech recently presented its third annual Vecellio Distinguished Lecture, featuring Virginia Department of Transportation Commissioner Philip Shucet as the 2003 speaker. Coincidentally, Mr. Shucet is a native of Beckley, WV, where Vecellio & Grogan was founded in 1938, and an acquaintance of the Vecellio family. Small world! The lecture series is part of the…

It is billed as “The Best of West Virginia” — and the same goes for those who made its recent expansion possible, says Dwight Trent, Deputy General Manager of Tamarack, West Virginia’s renowned arts & crafts center. “I watched Vecellio & Grogan’s people working and it was obvious the amount of pride they took in…

Vecellio & Grogan construction crews are making excellent progress on major highway projects in Virginia and North Carolina. V&G is nearing completion on a 4.5-mile segment of SR-288, a four-lane perimeter beltway just outside Richmond, Virginia. In North Carolina, crews have finished a 3.8-mile section of US-221 near Linville, while work continues on US-64 in…

               Hoe Operator Billy Wright loads Louis Forbes’ articulated haul truck on V&G’s SR-288 project near Richmond, Virginia.                  Heavy equipment on V&G’s SR-288 project in Richmond includes a fleet of Cat 777s and Euclid R90s. Billy Wood checks the grade on…

The Vecellio Group has a proud history of successfully serving the contracting industry. There’’s nothing like looking back on a completed highway, street or site development job and knowing you were part of making it happen! But the industry also carries the risk of injury unless proper safety procedures are followed at all times. It…

Thanks to an endowment by the Vecellio family, Virginia Tech recently presented its second annual Vecellio Distinguished Lecture, part of its Vecellio Construction Engineering and Management Program. Ted C. Kennedy, Chairman of BE&K, a worldwide engineering, construction and contract management firm, presented the 2002 lecture. Virginia Tech has graduated several Vecellio family members, beginning with…

Renowned heavy/highway contractor Vecellio & Grogan, Inc., is constructing a realigned section of US-64 adjoining the I-440 Beltline in east Raleigh, North Carolina. The $40.3 million contract, one of the largest in V&G’s history, includes five bridges and 1.2 miles of four-lane divided highway. With more than $15 million designated for structures, it is also…