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We are happy to introduce Graniterock’s new Vice President and CFO Dan Lindsey.

Dan joined the Company February 2022, after five years at Flatiron Construction as Vice President of finance and corporate controller.

He was based at Flatiron’s corporate headquarters near Denver, Colo.

Dan is a CPA and has 12 years of experience in the construction industry and nine years in public accounting.

He earned a degree in finance from Florida State University, an accounting degree from University of Central Florida and an MBA at University of Florida.

Dan is also a serious long-distance triathlete and competes in Ironman 70.3 races, also known as the half Ironman.  He also competes in off-road triathlons and raced the 2019 Xterra world championships in Maui.

Dan replaced long-time Vice President and CFO Steve Snodgrass, who retired April 1 after 28 years at Graniterock. 

Dan and his wife Angela have two grown children Kinley and Kyle.

This is the third and final Tech Talk webinars provided by Graniterock in April of 2022. The annual in-depth event continues Graniterock's efforts to educate agencies, specifiers, architects and contractors with the latest information to help develop and broaden the industries understanding of available high quality product, best practices and value engineering.

Brandon Milar, Director of Technical Services for the California Asphalt Pavement Association (CalAPA). - Brandon shares with the audience the importance of pavement sustainability and how we can better manage our efforts to protect our dwindling aggregate sources.

Graniterock is known for producing high quality construction materials for contractors throughout Northern California. Every shipment of aggregate, concrete and asphalt, and every project with cold in-place recycling, is backed by careful analysis and data that ensures specifications are met for each job. 
Graniterock has five testing laboratories across the San Francisco Bay Area that serve a vital role in the company’s quality control.
In this Episode, Graniterock's Research and Technical Service leaders share what the RTS department is all about, including the many services and capabilities the team has to offer.

00;00 Intro
00;11 - Greg Wilkinson, RTS Aggregates Manager
03;59 - Katha Redmon, RTS Director of Concrete Products
08;45 - Kevin McNeil, RTS Hot Mix Asphalt Manager
12;36 - Anthony Silva, RTS Quality Manager/Pavement Recycling Group
17;48 - Toni Carroll, RTS Director of Quality

Danial Fonda, Norther California Territory Manager at Pacific Clay Products Inc. takes us through the entire line of products including best practices and design for this great building material.

Pacific Clay material can be purchased from any of the Graniterock Building Material Branches.

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This is the second of three Tech Talk webinars provided by Graniterock in April of 2022. The annual in-depth event continues Graniterock's efforts to educate agencies, specifiers, architects and contractors with the latest information to help develop and broaden the industries understanding of available high quality product, best practices and value engineering.

Katha  Redmon  is  the  Director  of  Concrete  Products  for  Graniterockand  has  been  with  the company  for  10yearsmanaging  the  concrete  laboratory  team.    Shehas  a Bachelor  of  Science degree  from  the  University  of  California,Irvine  andhas  been  in  the  concrete  industry  for  over thirtyyears.Katha  holds  multiple  ACI  and  NRMCA  certifications  and  enjoys  interacting  with concrete contractors  and  specifierson  a  regular  basis.   Sheis  a voting  member  on  six  (6)  ASTMcommittees,a pastChairpersonandcurrent memberof the California Construction and Industrial Materials  Association  (CalCIMA)Technical  Committee  andcurrently  serves  as  an  activemember   of   the Caltrans Pavement   &   Materials   Partnering Committee(PMPC)Concrete Materials and Quality Assurance Sub-Task Group.  

Max Morgan, Concrete Sales Representative, is a CSU Chico Alum with a B.S. from the college of engineering (Concrete Industry Management Program) with a minor in business. Interning with Graniterock for four years before coming on full time back in 2016. His current role includes customer sales support and other initiatives like concrete reclamation to help make Graniterock better. Max is excited to help Graniterock keep up with technologies related to the concrete industry.

In this Episode, we invite Christopher Cotton from Building Point Pacific and Tree Beer from Trimble Connect Construction to share all about how managing the construction site has changed with the use of Augmented and Mixed Reality technology.

Hear about how the use of HoloLens with Trimble has changed everything, giving the project team the ability to see into the future and troubleshoot job site issues before they happen.

This is an exciting time to be in the Construction Industry!

For more info on Trimble, please visit https://www.trimble.com/en/

To see the video, visit.     https://youtu.be/MYuFHHb6FA4

In this episode, we chat with members of Santa Cruz Land Trust, Caltrans and Santa Cruz County Supervisor Bruce McPherson.

00:09 Sarah Newark, Executive Director Land Trust of Santa Cruz
00:54 Kevin Drabinski, Public Information Officer, Caltrans District 5
02:24 Aaron Johnston, Graniterock Vice President of Quality & Environmental Services
03:10 Bruce McPherson, 5th District Supervisor, Santa Cruz County

California’s first wildlife crossing began construction on Highway 17 at Laurel Curve in March – a public-private partnership between the Land Trust, Caltrans, Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission and Graniterock as the contractor.

Pioneering Wildlife Protection Together
The Land Trust of Santa Cruz County, Caltrans
Graniterock, and the Santa Cruz County Regional
Transportation Commission are making the wildlife
crossing a reality. The unique partnership demonstrated
by these four agencies has created a new model for
conservation and wildlife protection projects in Califomia.

Why build an undercrossing
instead of an overcrossing!
The stretch of highway at Laurel Curve is
built over a large natural drainage, creating
the ideal place to install a large box culvert
beneath the highway. The roadway will
become a bridge, with the area underneath
becoming the wildlife crossing. The
undercrossing is wider and therefore more
welcoming for wildlife than a tunnel

What animals are we
hoping will use this
crossing?
Deer bobcats. foxes and mountain
lions have all been caught on camera
trying to cross Laurel Curve - or
dying in the process. Research by the
Santa Cruz Puma Project's biologist,
Chris Wilmers, shows both extensive
use of the area by mountain lions  in
recent years. Wilmers called the Laurel
Curve area "the best opportunity for
maintaining puma connectivity across
Highway 17 in Santa Cruz County"

Who helped?
Over ten years in the making - the Land Trust took the first BIG step toward building a
wildlife crossing under Highway 17 in 2014, with the protection of a 10-acre property at
Laurel Curve. Seven years on, the LTSCC has now protected additional 700 acres around
Laurel Curve, creating the wildlife pathway needed for the linkage's success.

This is the first of three Tech Talk webinars provided by Graniterock in April of 2022. The annual in-depth event continues Graniterock's efforts to educate agencies, specifiers, architects and contractors with the latest information to help develop and broaden the industries understanding of available high quality product, best practices and value engineering.

Brandon Milar, Director of Technical Services for the California Asphalt Pavement Association (CalAPA). - Brandon shares with the audience the importance of pavement sustainability and how we can better manage our efforts to protect our dwindling aggregate sources.

Abel Covarrubias, Mine Planning Engineer at Graniterock’s A.R. Wilson Quarry. - Abel provides insight on Graniterock's investment for the new Premium Sand Plant in order to build custom blends of high quality materials, providing the end user with the exact specified fine aggregates needs.

We cover a lot of ground in this episode as Julie Giannotta, Bill Miller and Nicole Laurence join the podcast to talk about their new positions on Graniterock's executive team.
Julie, a team member since 1999, serves as Chief Accounting Officer.
Bill joined the Company's HR Department in 2015 and was recently named Chief Human Resources Officer.
Nicole, the Chief Information Officer, started her Graniterock career in 2017.

This conversation was a great rundown on their individual backgrounds as well as what's happening in their respective departments - accounting, IT and human resources.

Best of all, Julie, Bill and Nicole answer the question "What's your favorite core value at Graniterock?"

We promise to get the other new EC members on the podcast soon.
Peter Lemon and Paul Cianciarulo, that's you! 

Did you know Graniterock uses 3 million gallons of fuel a year?
Relying on that much diesel and gas to run our business, how do we survive the sky high prices we're seeing at the pump?
In this episode, Graniterock Vice Presidents Rich Sacher and Peter Lemon discuss the impact record-setting oil and gas prices are having on business and how the Company has responded with implementing fuel surcharges for trucking and construction materials orders. 
We also talked with CalCIMA CEO Robert Dugan about how the rising energy costs are impacting all aspects of California's construction materials market.