WRMCA honors County Materials for bridge
WAUSAU, Wis. (March 30, 2005) - Seeds sown in concrete have borne fruit for County Materials' latest ambitious municipal project. The McCleary Bridge, which connects Wausau with the Town of Rib Mountain and contains more than 6,000 cubic yards of ready-mix concrete in its decks, won the Wisconsin Ready Mixed Concrete Association's 2004 Concrete Design Award for Region 4, presented March 24 at The Overture Center in Madison.
WRMCA Marketing Director Amanda Robinson presented the award to Bob Wells, County Materials Ready Mix Manager, and Dave Pheifer, owner of Pheifer Brothers Construction, who was the builder.
The $8.8 million bridge is 1,572 feet long and 70 feet wide. Nearly 6.5 miles of concrete pilings support 96 concrete girders of 130 feet, 10 inches, which if placed end to end would reach 2 1/3 miles.
While County Materials supplied all of the concrete ready-mix, pilings and girders, Pheifer Brothers was the builder; Graef, Anhalt, Schloemer & Associates designed the bridge, and the Marathon County Highway Department and Town of Rib Mountain own the structure.
County Materials, founded in 1946, operates two dozen locations serving Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois. The family-owned, American-based company is an industry leader in the manufacture and distribution of concrete block, brick, ready mix, hollowcore, pipe, pavers, retaining walls and exposed-aggregate products for residential, commercial and municipal construction and landscaping.