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Who we are
Thirty-one years of holding grade.
Crossgrade started in 1995 with one used scraper, a county road contract, and a survey habit that never went away. Everything since has been earned a tenth of a foot at a time.
The company the ground built
Our founder was a grade checker before she was a contractor, and it shows in the company's reflexes. We check the survey before we trust the plan. We read the geotech report before we price the job. We publish production numbers to owners weekly because we are already collecting them hourly for ourselves.
Today Crossgrade fields roughly 480 people and 300 pieces of heavy iron across Colorado and the mountain west: earthwork spreads, structures crews, utility gangs, paving trains, and an in-house survey and UAS group that flies our sites weekly. We self-perform more than seventy percent of contract value, which is rare at our size and the entire reason our schedules hold.
We are still privately held, still headquartered on the same gravel yard in north Denver (paved now, we admit), and still convinced that infrastructure is a promise you make to people who will never know your name.
Figures illustrative. Fictional demo company.
How we operate
Three habits, thirty-one years.
Survey twice, mobilize once
Ground truth beats assumptions. Control networks, utility potholing, and drone baselines are set before the first track hits dirt, and quantities are measured, not estimated, from then on.
Publish the numbers
Owners see the same dashboards our foremen see: earthwork balance, milestone float, cost against GMP. A contractor with nothing to hide should not make you ask.
Own the critical path
The scopes that decide the schedule (dirt, structures, pipe, paving) belong to our own crews. We manage subcontractors well, but we do not bet your opening date on persuasion.
Leadership
Promoted from the field, accountable to it.
Fictional people. Monograms, not headshots, on purpose.
Rae Calloway, PE
President & Chief EngineerStarted on a survey crew, stamped her first bridge package at 29, and still reads every constructability review that leaves the building.
Diego Marsh
VP, Field OperationsTwenty-six years from laborer to VP. Owns the fleet, the foremen, and the production numbers, in that order.
Tomas Keel, PE
VP, PreconstructionPrices heavy civil from our own cost history and defends every line of it in front of owners, in writing.
Adaeze Vance
Director of SafetyRuns the safety program like an operations department: leading indicators, crew audits, and stop-work authority that gets used.
June Park
Director, Water InfrastructureTwo decades of wet infrastructure. Believes closeout books should be written for the operator on shift at 2 a.m.
Marcus Boone
Equipment & Logistics ManagerKeeps 300 pieces of iron turning dirt instead of waiting on parts. Uptime is his scoreboard.
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