Security Fence Corporation, Cincinnati;
Holt Haus Signs, Cincinnati;
Down Hauling and Rigging Company, Cincinnati;
Ban Sal Construction Company, Fairfield;
Amerilect Inc., Fairfield;
Brayman Foundations LLC, Vandalia;
Advance Underground, Hamilton;
Twin Rivers Construction Company, Marietta;
Shelly and Sands Inc., Zanesville;
Armstrong Steel Erectors Inc., Newark, Ohio;
Hydro-Technologies Inc., Jeffersonville, Ind.;
On-SiteStud Welding Inc., Elyria, Ohio;
Concrete Coring Company of Cincinnati, Cincinnati;
Ohio Bridge Striping Inc., New Philadelphia, Ohio;
Safety Grooving and Grinding, Napoleon, Ohio;
Parks Drilling Company, Dublin, Ohio;
State Wide Concrete Pumping, Columbus;
Buckeye Concrete Pumping Inc., Middletown;
Geotech Services Inc., Dayton;
Mount Caramel Stabilization Group Inc., Mount Caramel, Ill.;
K&R Excavating and Landscaping LLC, Leipsic, Ohio;
Coady Construction Inc., Columbus;
Capital Tunnelling Inc., Columbus;
Vermilion Tree and Land Clearing Service Inc., Amhurst, Ohio;
Oglesby Construction Inc., Norwalk, Ohio;
Soil Testing and Engineering LPSD, Dublin, Ohio;
Petro Environmental LLC, Cincinnati;
APR Environmental Inc., Cincinnati;
ICL Inc., Cincinnati;
7 Lucky Sons, Inc., Hamilton;
Specialities Company LLC, Indianapolis;
S.P. Drilling Services Inc., Milford, Ohio.
SOURCE: Ohio Department of Transportation.
For more than three years, John R. Jurgensen Companies’ workers have been fixtures on Interstate 75 in Butler and Warren counties — tearing up, fixing and improving the highway.
In 2008, the Cincinnati-based business was awarded the $98 million contract to widen I-75 in Butler County. A year later, it was awarded a $110 million contract to widen and improve the interstate in Warren County. Combined, the work spans nearly 20 miles.
Jurgensen has 900 employees located in several offices throughout Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, according to the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce.
The company concentrates on general contracting work, including asphalt paving, milling, storm, sewer and road construction, according to its website.
While Jurgensen officials declined to be interviewed regarding their work, the company is also handling 13 other projects in Southwestern Ohio under the purview of the Ohio Department of Transportation, according to ODOT spokeswoman Sharon Smiegielski.
These projects include a $53 million reconstruction of the Mitchell Avenue interchange and surrounding roadway that is a part of ODOT’s multipart I-75 rehabilitation project in Cincinnati.
It has also performed work at the Dayton International Airport, on repairing Interstate 675, and repairs on Cincinnati-Dayton Road, according to its website.
It is not unusual for one company to win contracts for that much infrastructure work in a region, said Arman Anderson, an analyst of infrastructure work.
“It’s a fairly specialized field that can’t support one or two massive companies that oversee a lot of construction,” Anderson said. “Without analyzing Jurgensen’s contracts I’d guess they have a number of subcontractors and while they probably do good work, they are also able to bring a large number of small firms together as well, and that is a key strength.”
While Jurgensen is handling more than 70 percent of the workload — a requirement to receive the bid and be named the lead construction crew — it is also using more than 20 subcontractors to complete the work.
The business has 19 asphalt companies in Ohio, including sites in Morrow, Dayton, Xenia, Mechanicsburg and Monroe, according to its website.
Jurgensen also has 14 aggregate construction production facilities that produce a variety of construction materials, including lime, calcium carbonate fillers, and sand in places such as Sabina, Chillicothe and Cincinnati.
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