WW Clyde is a heavy civil

construction Construction are processes involved in delivering buildings, infrastructure, industrial facilities, and associated activities through to the end of their life. It typically starts with planning, financing, and design that continues until the a ...

firm based in

Orem Orem is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States, in the northern part of the state. It is adjacent to Provo, Lindon, and Vineyard and is approximately south of Salt Lake City. Orem is one of the principal cities of the Provo-Orem, Utah Me ...

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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 George Dewey Clyde, who later became a

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. The company began as a business focused on building

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

bridge A bridge is a structure built to Span (engineering), span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, whi ...

s and other structures,

highway A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land. It includes not just major roads, but also other public roads and rights of way. In the United States, it is also used as an equivalent term to controlled-access highway, or ...

pipelines A pipeline is a system of pipes for long-distance transportation of a liquid or gas, typically to a market area for consumption. The latest data from 2014 gives a total of slightly less than of pipeline in 120 countries around the world. The Un ...

mining Mining is the Resource extraction, extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agriculture, agricultural processes, or feasib ...

and

mine reclamation Mine reclamation is the process of modifying land that has been mined to restore it to an ecologically functional or economically usable state. Although the process of mine reclamation occurs once mining is complete, the planning of mine recl ...

, site development, and aggregate 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 Salt Lake City International Airport is a joint civil-military international airport located about west of Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The airport, along with the much smaller Provo Airport (PVU) and Ogden–Hinckley Airpo ...

expansion; St. George Municipal Airport; replacement of Scofield Dam * 1950s:

Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state. The city is the core of the Salt Lake Ci ...

’s State Street * 1960s: Arthur V. Watkins Dam; Starvation Bridge * 1970s: Utah Power and Light plant and substation;

LDS Church Office Building The Church Office Building is a 28-story building in Salt Lake City, Utah, which houses the administrative support staff for the lay ministry of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) throughout the world.Taylor, Scott"For ...

* 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 mid-scale 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 store ...

* 2000s:

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 (; Gosiute dialect, Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; ; Shoshoni language, Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), were an international wi ...

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