Ozinga Wins Two Concrete Design Awards from Wisconsin Ready Mixed Concrete Association

Ozinga, a fourth-generation family-owned American concrete company, was honored with two awards at the Wisconsin Ready Mixed Concrete Association (WRMCA) 35th Annual Concrete Design Awards.

The awards highlight the best use of ready mix concrete in Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, focusing on the following categories: Agricultural, Commercial, Decorative, Education, Healthcare, and Public, ICF, Industrial, Facility, Municipal Infrastructure, Other, Parking Lot, Tilt-Up and regional projects.

Ozinga earned a Merit Industrial Award for their work on The Uline 16 Branch Warehouse and Office, an 850,000-square-foot warehouse in Kenosha County that used a grand total of 38,000 cubic yards of concrete placed over a six-month period.

Ozinga also received the Merit Commercial Award for their work on The Corners of Brookfield, a 750,000-square-foot multi-use development consisting of a cast-in-place parking structure, 244 luxury apartment houses and a mix of retail and restaurants. A total of 51,000 cubic yards of concrete was used on the project.

The award ceremony took place in mid-January at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells. Justin Kratochvil, Jason Johnson, Felicia Nelson, Mark Fidder, Curt Landish and Mike Fiorita accepted the awards on Ozinga’s behalf.

"We are all very proud to be able to supply the concrete on ‘The Corners’ and on Uline’s newest project,” said Ritch Dembinsky, executive vice president of Ozinga’s northern operations. “It gives our team even greater pride to have these projects acknowledged by our peers as top projects in the state of Wisconsin for 2016. Congratulations to the entire Wisconsin team on the hard work they put in to help make these projects a success."

Ozinga has been a part of the WRMCA for two years. In 2015, the concrete company took home the Commercial Category Award for the Uline Distribution Center.