WW Clyde is a heavy civil

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firm based in Orem,

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, United States (but formerly in nearby Springville). WW Clyde is a subsidiary of Clyde Companies, Inc, which also owns Geneva Rock, Sunroc, Sunpro, GWC Capital, Bridgesource, and Beehive Insurance.

Description

WW Clyde was founded in 1926 by Wilford W. Clyde, brother to

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, who later became a

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. The company began as a business focused on building

road A road is a linear way for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians. Unlike streets, the main function of roads is transportation. There are many types of ...

s, and now specializes in a variety of construction services, including building

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s and other structures,

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s, pipelines,

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

and mine reclamation, site development, and

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processing. WW Clyde operates throughout the western United States. On December 28, 2020, WW Clyde announced the acquisition of Phoenix-based Blount Contracting, Inc. In 2022, WW Clyde won the national Associated General Contractors Safety Excellence Awards in the category of under 800,000 work hours. WW Clyde won in the Highway and Transportation Division for its efforts navigating the 2021 calendar year without any recordable incidents.

Projects

In the past, WW Clyde has completed many major projects: * 1940s: Salt Lake City International Airport expansion; St. George Municipal Airport; replacement of

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* 1950s:

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’s State Street * 1960s:

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; Starvation Bridge * 1970s: Utah Power and Light plant and substation;

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* 1980s: Green River Bridge; Interstate 215 belt route * 1990s: Barney’s Canyon Pipeline;

South Towne Center The Shops at South Town, formerly South Towne Center, is a regional shopping mall in Sandy, Utah, United States, located just east of Interstate 15 on State Street. The property, built in 1986, contains of retail space with 150 stores and resta ...

* 2000s:

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projects; Point of the Mountain Aqueduct Pipeline * 2010s: Pioneer Crossing; Pioneer Wind Farm * 2020s: Utah State Route 154

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{{authority control Companies based in Orem, Utah Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States 1926 establishments in Utah Springville, Utah