Teichert Construction of Sacramento, Calif. was awarded a Yosemite Area Regional Transit System project to build a park-and-rife facility in Mariposa. The project is estimated to cost $1.3 million, YARTS will spend $582,000 and the rest will come from the stimulus package.

- Teichert Construction

Elam Construction of Grand Junction, Colo. was awarded two highway projects in Mesa County, Colorado. The project consists of resurfacing parts of Highway 285 and Highway 180.

- Elam Construction

Brasfield & Gorrie of Birmingham, Ala. was awarded a $7 million stimulus project to upgrade the federal courthouse in Little Rock, Ark.

- Brasfield & Gorrie LLC

The Christman Company of Lansing, Mich. was awarded to perform construction management on the Robert Vance Federal Building in downtown Birmingham, Ala.

- The Christman Company

Wesslen Construction Inc. of Spokane, Wash. has been working on the Fish Lake Trail in Spokane since July 8, 2009. Since construction began in July, 40 workers have been involved with this project.

- Wesslen Construction Inc.

Branscome Inc. is working on three highway stimulus projects in Williamsburg, Va. Hunter Creech, chief financial officer for the company said that these new projects kept them from laying off 30 to 50 employees.

- Branscome Inc.

Kiewit Pacific Co. was awarded a $482.9 million contract for construction of the first 6 ½ miles of the 20-mile commuter rail line project in Honolulu, Hawaii. The city estimates that construction of the project will generate an average of over ten thousand jobs a year for nine years including 4,200 direct jobs primarily in the construction trades.

- Kiewit Pacific Co.

Yerba Buena Engineering and Construction of San Francisco, Calif. was awarded a $5 million project to replace and expand the irrigation system on the 25,000-acre National Elk Refuge near Jackson, Wyo. This project is estimated to employ 40 to 50 people.

- Yerba Buena Engineering and Construction

Laskey-Clifton Corp. was fortunate enough this year to pick up a stimulus funded ODOT road project, which put a lot of our construction people back to work. Without that project, we would have had nothing for them to do, and they would have remained on unemployment.

- Don Laskey, Laskey-Clifton Corp.

With stimulus work available the general morale has improved throughout the workforce. After award of a stimulus project we have made capital investments in heavy equipment and technologies to improve efficiencies. Without the stimulus project our company was ready to make deep cuts to our workforce. These cuts were avoided.

- Glenn Cairns, George R Cairns and Sons Inc

Due to the stimulus funding, a lot more construction projects have opened up in our area. We went from having no new jobs to getting several just in the last few weeks! Our morale has improved by leaps and bounds since everyone knows we do have work coming up! I personally feel a huge weight lifted off my shoulders and that cold pit of fear in my stomach is slowly going away. We're still a little slow and still in recovery mode, but there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it doesn't appear to be a train! Thanks so much to everyone who helped this bill go into action and thanks to everyone who's letting it roll downhill! If everyone just works together, I'm positive we'll be able to pull out of this economic slump and be back to normal again!

- Rachel Soderquist, Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction Co. Inc.

Our project teams have become extremely busy chasing federal projects. Our marketing department is also very busy. As of right now we do not expect to hire new work. But it will allow us to transition staff coming off of projects onto the new federal projects. This will cut down on their bench time.

- Meloni McDaniel, Beck Group

We have seen a significant increase in the number of jobs to bid on and the number of jobs we have been awarded. We have about 6-10 jobs directly from the stimulus package now. I believe we will hire another 5 people due in large part to the stimulus package. We have already purchased 3 trucks and a large piece of equipment (app $650K) due in large part to the stimulus package. We are also looking for a new, bigger building to move to in anticipation of the work we are getting.

- Russ Morgan, Peck Striping, Inc.

Depending on the rate or score of new projects, we expect to (re)hire 10 to 30 employees.

- Peter Mendoza, High Light Electric Inc

We have added $32,000,000 to our books due to stimulus money. So far, $2,000,000 has been awarded and 15 people have been hired or rehired as a result of the stimulus. We have been awarded or anticipate being awarded several bridge and road projects as a result of the stimulus funding.

- Primco

Work volume has increased due to more projects being let for bid. Volume of work has increased for all disciplines in the heavy highway construction market with more projects to bid.

- David Riecken, Ralph L. Wadsworth

We have additional opportunities to bid on needed public projects. The bid environment remains extremely tight, allowing governmental entities to maximize the impact of their investments while allowing contracting companies to have the opportunity to get employees back to work. We are completing two separate asphalt overlay projects, two parking lot projects, and a sewer system lift station. Additional bid opportunities on roadway reconstruction and improvements are pending. If we are successful in our bids, we will be able to recall a significant number of employees.

- William A. Peterson, Jr., Copeland Sand and Gravel, Inc.

We are doing three water main improvement jobs in the southern Maine area. These jobs have helped to increase a very, very weak backlog of work. We still have a long way to go to be "busy", but every little bit counts.

- Larry Grondin, R. J. Grondin & Sons

Stimulus-funded projects have temporarily prevented our company from laying off 15 to 20 personnel.

- Lon Albert, Reece Albert, Inc.