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Company Name: Ames Construction, Inc.
CFO/CEO or Owner: Richard and Butch Ames
Founded: 1960
Headquarters: Burnsville, MN
Other Locations: Denver, CO; Salt Lake City, UT; Phoenix, AZ; Carlon, NV
Website: www.amesconstruction.com
Number of Employees: 2,000 - 3,000 average
About the company:
Ames is a heavy civil, industrial, mining, and design-build general contractor. We are currently building approximately $650,000,000 of work per year in the United States.
Areas of Specialization:
Ames is experienced in the construction of airports, commercial infrastructures, highways and bridges, mining facilities, railways, industrial and power generation infrastructure/facilities, and water resource structures.
Recent Projects:
KDOT - Ottawa Hwy 59 Bypass; City of Olathe KS Railway Elevation; NDOR - Scottsbluff and Oshkosh Bypass; CDOT - I70/Hwy 58 Interchange; MNDOT - Sauk Rapids 1300' Hwy Bridge over the Mississippi River, MN; BNSF Track Capacity work in NE, KS, WY, OK, TX, NM, and CA; BNSF Intermodal Facility - Memphis TN; UPRR 100 mile Track Capacity work in Arizona; UPRR Intermodal Facility - Salt Lake City UT; Track Expansion at Sutherland & NE City Coal Plants; Phoenix Airport Runway Expansion, AZ; All American Canal and Reservoir - near Yuma AZ; Rueter-Hess Dam, Parker CO; High Savery Dam, WY; Elkhead Dam, Craig CO; Aragonne Mesa Wind Farm, NM; Dry Fork new Coal Plant Construction, Gillette WY; Cripple Creek Gold Mine Leach Pad & Crusher Expansion - CO; Climax Molybdenum Mine Expansion - CO; Flambeau Copper Mine Reclamation, WI; Barrick Mercur Mine Reclamation, UT; San Manuel Mine Closure, AZ; Snowmass Village Resort Infrastructure, CO; Walmart Distribution Centers, NE, WY, UT, WI, NV; Jack Nicklaus Valley Golf Course, UT; Design-Build, Central City Byway CO; Design-Build, Waste Water Treatment Plants in MN & UT; Design-Build, UDOT Legacy Parkway, Salt Lake UT; Design-Build, MNDOT Hwy 52 Rochester MN; Design-Build, Bull Mountain new Coal Plant 30 mile Track Construction, MT.
Ames Construction, Inc. is the Title Sponsor of the December 11th Winter Construction Industry Day!
Title Sponsors
- Commercial Construction, Inc.
- Gene Lilly Surety Bonds
- Murphy Tractor & Equipment Co., Inc.
- NMC (Nebraska Machinery Co.)
- Paulsen, Inc.
- The Harry A. Koch Co.
- Werner Construction Co.
Executive Sponsors
- Ames Construction, Inc.
- Garcia-Chicoine Enterprises, Inc.
- NEBCO, Inc. & Subsidiaries
- Simon Contractors
- U.S. Asphalt Co.
- CYC Construction, Inc.
- SemMaterials, L.P.
Senior Sponsors
- Midlands Contracting, Inc
- United Contractors, Inc.
- A.M. Cohron & Son, Inc.
- Universal Lubricants, Inc.


