Gerber Construction
Heavy civil, water and wastewater infrastructure. Lehi.
- Leadership: Jason Woffinden, president; Mark Nielsen, vice president. About
- Ownership: The company says it has an employee stock ownership plan. Careers
Gerber's history begins in 1974 with a small family concrete business and follows its growth into bridges, water storage, pumping and other civil work. It lists the Silver Creek Water Reclamation expansion and the 15-million-gallon Phase II North Shore Terminal Reservoir among its significant projects. About
The company's timeline says it was founded in October 1974 by Preston, Max and Scott Gerber and a few team members working out of the family garage, with a red 1964 Ford pickup and a Case 580B backhoe, doing residential and subcontracted concrete work. Within four years it built a 6,000-square-foot office on land it bought in Midvale. It later moved to a three-acre office and yard in Draper, with 32 employees at the time, and then to a larger facility in Lehi that let it do its own fabrication and painting. About
The timeline lists bridge widening, dam rehabilitation, water tanks, pump stations and mine reclamation among its later work, and describes rehabilitating a 672-foot section of the 102-inch Olmstead pipeline on the mountainside of Provo Canyon. About
The company emphasizes its own excavation, concrete, mechanical piping and fabrication crews. Gerber Construction Similarly named Gerber construction businesses exist elsewhere.
Not yet verified: The employee ownership percentage and Utah-only annual revenue.