It doesn’t take long to drive around Cañon City, Colorado, to find evidence of work by Ray Lippis Excavating, one of our 2020 Contractor of the Year finalists.
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It doesn’t take long to drive around Cañon City, Colorado, to find evidence of work by Ray Lippis Excavating.
Along with hundreds of houses for which the company did site work and installed water and sewer, the company also rebuilt the Main Street area’s sidewalks and performed other downtown revitalization projects. The company built most of the county’s river walk beside the Arkansas River, and it is the contractor for four of the area’s water districts. It s ties to the community, reputation for quality work and ability to grow during tough times makes Ray Lippis Excavating one of our 2020 Contractor of the Year finalists.
Now that 2020 is basically a known quantity,
Equipment World editors reached back to several of the contractors we talked with this spring with one basic question: what happened?
We learned that 2020 was far from a universal experience. Read on.
Rick Goodmanson
Roseville, Minnesota
“It was a wild ride, that’s for sure,” Rick Goodmanson says. “This year has been the most difficult of my career – No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, probably all together.”
In March, the commercial concrete and asphalt contractor was poised for another year of exponential growth. Then Covid-19 led clients to pull back on projects as they focused more on safety compliance to prevent the virus’ spread.