2023 WAPA Paving Award Winners Honored

2023 Paving Awards winners were celebrated at WAPA’s 69th Annual Meeting on November 3rd. A wide range of “Best of the Best” awards were presented to Washington state’s premier asphalt paving companies alongside the private sector and public owners of the projects.

The public works paving awards were graciously presented by Doug McCormick, P.E., the 2023 President Elect of the Washington State Association of County Engineers (WSACE), Loren Behm, 2023 President of the American Public Works Association of Washington (APWA-WA) and Roger Millar, P.E., our state’s Secretary of Transportation. Scott Willms of Shamrock Paving, WAPA’s 2023 President, led the awards ceremony and presented the awards for Commercial, Innovative, Heavy/ Industrial and Intermodal paving.

This year’s Carl Minor Award (the highest rated public works paving project of the year) was awarded to WSDOT Contract 9759 – US 2 – Davenport to Reardan Paving. Tom Brasch, P.E. and Alex Proszek, P.E. led WSDOT’s project management team and Inland Asphalt Paving Inc. of Spokane (a CRH company) was the General Contractor and self-performed the production and paving of over 17,000 tons of top-quality hot mix asphalt, “magically” transforming the ride on this stretch of highway. The job was also the smoothest measured ride of all the projects honored at this year’s paving awards banquet.