Incorporated March 29, 1978

Scope of work - our main focus is in the Commercial private sector. Type of work involves excavating, utility and paving of office/warehouse, retail buildings, and housing developments. Approximately 70% of our work is in this area of construction with the remaining 30% being areas of government contracts such as roads, housing developments, airports, government centers, parks, sports and maintenance facilities.

Primary work area is in the 7 county metro area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.

Annual Sales range from 35 to 40 million.

We commonly perform jobs as general contractors overseeing and managing all areas of work on various projects. Most often these projects range from $500,000 to $2,000,000 in size and include numerous well known suppliers and subcontractors in the metropolitan area.  We have General contracted projects as high as $5,000,000.00. 

We are very comfortable with rigid time lines for completion and well equipped to meet your completion deadlines. Throughout our history we annually completed numerous projects involving short completion date deadlines, often involving severe liquidated damage penalties that have even been as high as $5,000 every half hour for failure to complete nightly operations at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport. On this specific project for the reconstruction for runway 11R/29L Rehabilitation, we won an award from Associated Builders and Contractors for our efforts.

Our sales efforts are primarily in the large scale private, commercial and government sectors. Our sales strategy is based on volume sales which allow us to provide you with low competitive pricing to meet your budgetary needs. With our work force of over 150 employees and the numerous pieces of heavy excavating and paving equipment needed to support them we are confident we can provide you with fast, economical quality construction to meet your every need.

Several significant and well known projects we have taken part in include:

Metrodome, Burnsville Center, Mall of America, Southdale Center, Interstate 35W, Maplewood Mall, Arbor Lakes Retail Center, Prairie Lakes Housing Development, MSP International Airport and numerous surrounding airports.

We are capable of bonding to an aggregate total of 30 million and carry insurance for your protection on any of your project needs.

Northwest Asphalt excavating, paving, and utility personnel are all union employees to assure you of the best quality and workmanship in the Industry.  We are also currently a member of the Minnesota Asphalt Paving Assoc.

We are one of the largest leading excavating, utilities and paving contractors in the metropolitan area. Our goal is to stay in this position by providing you with the most timely and cost effective projects completed in the metro area and to do so on a regular basis.

Following is an example of our client list:

Commercial General Contractors:

Kraus-Anderson Companies, Adolfson & Peterson, Opus, McGough, Mortenson, Stahl, Benson Orth & Assoc., Amcon Construction, Weis Builders, Ryan Companies US, Inc.

Residential Housing:

US Homes, Pulte Homes, Brandl Anderson, Pillar Homes, Coffman Development, Allan Homes, Homes by Chase, Epic Homes.

Municipal:

Shakopee, Plymouth, Maple Grove, Savage, Lakeville, Prior Lake