Celebrating Build Arizona Award

Congratulations to our Project Manager, Abi Goode, for being named YCF Member of the Year.

Achen-Gardner Construction is honored to have won a Build Arizona Award from the Arizona Chapter Associated General Contractors of America for our Carefree Water Consolidation CMAR project. This project was constructed for the Town of Carefree and the award was in the New Construction - Public, Heavy, $10-$50 Million category. Members of the project team accepted the award at the Annual Dinner and Build Arizona Awards Banquet on Friday, January 26th. This project allowed the Town of Carefree to expand Carefree Water services to more than 20% of Carefree residents who were previously being furnished potable water by the Town of Cave Creek. It was the largest utility project that Carefree Water has ever constructed.

Congratulations to everyone involved with this project!

Got Slime?

It’s the season of giving! Achen-Gardner hosted a Slime Bucket Challenge to raise money for Save the Family to provide holiday gifts and meals for families in need. Achen-Gardner’s contribution helped AZ AGC’s Young Professionals raise more than $13,000 for Save the Family. Employee owners assisted with wrapping and delivering the gifts. Happy holidays to all! 🎁

Christmas in the Park Parade

Achen-Gardner had a great time kicking off the Christmas in the Park festivities in the City of Litchfield Park’s Christmas Parade on December 9th. We walked along our holiday-decorated float while handing out candy to the parade attendees.

Litchfield Park hosts an annual Christmas in the Park event on the second Saturday in December each year. Christmas in the Park is a family-focused event that is free and open to the public. It traditionally includes a hometown parade, arts & crafts vendors, local stage acts, and a number of children’s activities.

2023 Touch-A-Truck at Litchfield Park

Achen-Gardner was happy to be a sponsor at the Litchfield Park Touch-A-Truck event on November 18th. Our employee-owners had a blast passing out fun swag and showing off some of our equipment. This free family event gave kids of all ages the opportunity to see and touch the equipment and learn all about construction. Thank you to all the volunteers and sponsors who helped make this event a huge success.

2023 Patriot Day Touch-A-Truck

Achen-Gardner was happy to participate in the 2023 Signal Butte Elementary Patriot Day Touch-A-Truck event on September 11th in Queen Creek, AZ. Our employee-owners had a blast passing out swag and candy, and showing off some of our equipment. This fun event gave kids the opportunity to see and touch the equipment and learn all about construction. Thank you to all the volunteers and to Signal Butte Elementary for making this event a huge success.

AZ APWA Conference 2023

It was great seeing all our friends and partners at the AZ APWA Statewide Conference last week at the Hilton El Conquistador Tucson. Thank you to all of the attendees who visited our booth, spun our prize wheel, and won some of our fun swag.

In addition to the excitement in the exhibit hall, we also won three APWA Project of the Year Awards:

Environment Less Than $5M
Zone 1 - Transmission Main Assessment and Rehabilitation CMAR
Town of Gilbert

Environment $5-25M
Chandler Heights Utility Relocations CMAR
City of Chandler

Environment $25-75M
Waterline Replacement - Clark, University, and Daley Park Neighborhoods CMAR
City of Tempe

Greetings from CONEXPO-CON

Our new 2023 Kenworth T880 Simple 16 Dump Truck was recently featured at the CONEXPO-CON/AGG in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 14th-18th. Attendees saw our new dump truck featuring photos of paving on our Raintree Drive Extension CMAR project and underground utility work on our Zone 3D and 4A Improvements CMAR project.

CONEXPO-CON is the largest construction show in North America and had a record-breaking year with more than 139,000 registered attendees and more than 3 million net square feet of exhibits.