Kokosing Construction Receives National Building Award for Putnam  

  Street Bridge - Local Firm Honored by Prestigious Aon 2001 Build 

  America Award

  (NASHVILLE) -- Kokosing Construction Company was awarded the 2001 Aon Build 

  America Award – “the Oscar of the Construction Industry” – today in Nashville, Tennessee,    

  for its work on the recently completed Putnam Street Bridge in Marietta, Ohio.  

Presented by the Association of General Contractors (AGC), the Aon Build America Awards are considered the premier honor for work in the industry. Recognizing state-of-the-art advancement, excellence in project management and client service, innovation in construction techniques or materials, community relations, and sensitivity to the environment, the Build America Awards are selected by a contractor’s toughest critics – other contractors.

“We are honored to receive this prestigious award – especially because it comes directly from our industry colleagues,” said Brian Burgett, President and CEO of Kokosing Construction. “Even before we were honored with the Build America Award, we were pleased with the intense work and coordination between all parties which kept the project on schedule – even with the extensive redesign involved.”

The $11.2 million cast-in-place box segmental bridge, the first of its kind in Ohio, was designed with architectural and aesthetic features to resemble the original bridge and blend in with the surrounding early 19^th Century environment of the Marietta community.

The unique bridge was eight years in the making as a result of location disputes, environmental studies, changing price tags and funding formulas, which kept delaying the construction start.  Once selected as the contractor, Kokosing helped redesign the geometry of the bridge to consist of three spans of cast-in-place single box segmental construction.  While making this change the aesthetic values of the existing bridge were maintained.

Kokosing Construction Company Inc., headquartered in Fredericktown, Ohio and founded in 1951, is comprised of five divisions including heavy highway, building/industrial, treatment plants, utility, and asphalt.