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Delta Connection

The Salt Lake City Airport is a major hub for Delta Airlines. Delta flights make up about 70 percent of the airport’s total volume. In fact, more than 16 million Delta passengers flew through Salt Lake City in 2016.   That’s a lot of frequent flier miles.   It’s little wonder, then, [...]

Safety First – Safety Always

When do you achieve success? At times, we feel success in the form of winning the bid, finishing a job ahead of schedule or delivering beyond the expectation of the customer.  For me and my team at Geneva Rock, real success is doing our work — building a better community [...]

Keep Things Moving

Montello, Nevada isn’t a city most economists would consider to have much of an effect on the national economy.  In fact, it isn’t even a city.  However, on Feb. 8, 2017, Twentyone Mile Dam north- west of Montello broke and caused flooding to two vital Union Pacific rail lines that [...]

Rock Solid Spring 2017 | Delta Connection

Another edition on the Rock Solid Newsletter. This one is for the spring 2017 edition. In this issue, there is a President’s Message from Jim Golding called “Safety First – Safety Always“, a News and Notes on some of Geneva Rock’s award-winning work, and more. Geneva Rock was named the [...]

Clearing Skies

Air quality is a matter everyone cares about — especially living in Utah, a state which experiences some of the nation’s most extreme winter inversions.   When those inversions combine with high levels of particulate matter — PM2.5 — the air pollution is concentrated, producing poor air quality and affecting the [...]

Geneva Rock Products Makes Investment of Over $8 million in Cleaner Air Technologies

  Company Purchases New Fleet of 25 Eco-Friendly Natural Gas Ready-Mix Concrete Trucks and Installs a New CNG Fueling Station South Salt Lake, UT— First in its industry, Geneva Rock Products invests over $8 million in a new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueling station and fleet of 25 CNG Ready-Mix [...]

Geneva Rock Receives Triad Award for I-80 Reconstruction Project

This spring, Hanley Wood announced that Geneva Rock’s I-80; Silver Creek to Wanship Reconstruction project is the winner of the 2016 Triad Award. The Triad Award is a national recognition sponsored by Concrete Construction, The Concrete Producer, and Public Works magazines and cement and concrete producer LafargeHolcim. “Each year we seek [...]

Customer Success: Cabela’s Distribution Center in Tooele

In 2015, Cabela’s selected Big-D Construction to start work on a 600,000-square-foot warehouse in Tooele, Utah for product distribution throughout the Western United States. Geneva Rock Products was asked to provide the 30,000 cubic yards of concrete needed for the facility, which included tilt-up concrete walls and a super-flat concrete floor for [...]

Geneva Rock on Instagram: Winter 2016

We love to show off the amazing photos taken by our employees, customers, partners and community members. To have your photos included in our monthly post, use the hashtag #genevarock in your public Instagram posts.                                 [...]

Unified Fire Practices Trench Rescue at Geneva Rock Operation

  Geneva Rock Products was happy to host the Unified Fire Authority yesterday for a day of firefighting drills and instruction. Geneva Rock employees aided in the drills by constructing an 8-foot L-shaped trench where dummy victims were placed in life threatening situations. Unified Fire Authority firefighters took turns practicing trench [...]

Traffic Control

All road construction is, is an investment in the future. Road reconstruction is often an inconvenient investment that requires patience for residents and local business. However, this patience is easier to find when the construction team communicates clearly, listens, and responds to concerns and adjusts to problems with a solutions-based [...]

Commerce Connection

Interstate 15 is Utah’s most traveled roadway and an essential long-haul route for North American commerce. Of its 1,433 roadway miles, 401 are in the state of Utah and 13 have been the focus of UDOT’s “Lane Gain” project in 2016.  The $41 million dollar construction contract — which required [...]