Celebrating 50 Years!
Celebrating
Streb
Construction Company Inc.
IOWA CITY, IA
A publication of the Corridor Business Journal, May 25, 2015
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E & F Paving 1964 - 2015 3
Celebrating 50 years!
Congratulations
from your friends at
MidCountry Machinery
Streb Construction
18 Commercial Drive
Iowa City
(319) 338-3498
StrebConstruction.com
E & F Paving
714 31st Avenue SW
Cedar Rapids
(319) 364-6821
efpaving.com
May 25, 2015
A product of the
Corridor Business Journal
Writer: Cindy Hadish
Designer: Julia Druckmiller
Photography: submitted
MidCountry Machinery
800-206-5936
www.midcountrymachinery.com
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In 1965, Al Streb incorporated Streb Construction
Co., Inc., the Iowa City company he founded after
returning from the Korean War. Around the same
time, former Cedar Rapids Streets Commissioner,
Jack Eggleston, joined forces with Ed and Leo
Fitzpatrick to form E & F Paving Company in Cedar
Rapids. As both businesses mark 50 years, now under the
same umbrella of Streb Construction, family members
and employees continue the tradition of customer service
started a half-century ago.
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Congratulations
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STREB CONSTRUCTION
“We just basically grew the business,” co-owner and vice president,
Steve Streb, said of he and his brother, Dave Streb, who serves as
president and co-owner of Streb Construction.
Their father, Al Streb, started out building houses before developing
commercial buildings and residential subdivisions during the 1970s
in the North Liberty and Iowa City area.
His dad wasn’t necessarily considered “handy,” Steve said with a
smile, but provided the organization
and leadership needed to operate a
successful business.
leadership
Around the time his brother returned
from Oklahoma State University and began working full-time for the
company in the early 1980s, the farm crisis had hit.
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Steve Streb, Vice President
& Co-owner and Dave Streb,
President & Co-owner
Hard work, dedication and
doing the right thing for
Generations. Congratulations
Streb Construction!!
Shelly Streb-Alberts,
REALTOR ®
Licensed Real Estate Broker in Iowa
319.331.2654
www.shellystreb.com
Streb
Construction
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E & F Paving 1964 - 2015 7
Rexcon Mobile Plant set
up on site at the Eastern
Iowa Airport
4 FROM PAGE 6
“In 1983, there were only 13 building
permits taken out in all of Iowa City,”
said Steve, who received a business degree
from Loras College. “Needless to
say, there wasn’t a whole lot going on in
the building industry.”
adjust to the
times
Needing to adjust to the
times, Streb Construction
began focusing on concrete
work, beginning
with paving jobs in subdivisions.
The economic
recession of 2008 also forced a change,
but this time in the types of jobs Streb
Construction pursued.
In the past decades, they haven’t looked
back, with the business now firmly dedicated
to concrete paving, primarily in
the Corridor as well as other Eastern
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From our Family to Yours…
It’s been great
working with you
the past 50 years!
Congratulations
and to many more!
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4 FROM PAGE 7
Iowa communities, working on commercial parking lots, city
streets, interstates, county roads, airports and subdivisions.
The ability to adapt has continued, with the addition of GPS
technology in recent years to provide more accurate work.
The technology replaces a previous method of guiding paving
machines with string, Steve said.
Rather than buy a new machine, the GPS system was retrofitted
on a slipform concrete paver, he noted, allowing the machine
to continue its use, but with more accuracy and costsavings.
Plaques recognizing numerous honors the company has been
awarded line the walls of the office in Iowa City, including excellence
awards from the Iowa Concrete Paving Association and
Iowa Department of Transportation.
Plant Managers, Steve Donovan
and Jeffrey Mohr
Streb Construction is a member of the Associated General
Contractors of Iowa, the Associated General Contractors of
America, the Iowa Concrete Paving Association, in which
Steve served as president in 2009 and 2012, the American
Concrete Paving Association and the Iowa City Area Chamber
of Commerce.
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Congratulations to
STREB CONSTRUCTION COMPANY INC.
on celebrating 50 years of
outstanding business!
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Congratulations,
Streb Construction!
BEST WISHES STREB CONSTRUCTION ON YOUR CONTINUED SUCCESS
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Many of Streb Construction’s 75 employees have been with
the company for numerous years, including recent retiree,
Gary Evans. “He remembers me being born,” said Steve, who
is now 44.
During its anniversary year, the company is moving to a new
location just outside of Coralville, with the goal to be in the
new office and shop building before the end of 2015.
Iowa’s new 10 cents
per gallon gas tax
increase, to be used
for roads and bridges,
bodes well for the
industry in general.
As for the future,
Iowa’s new
10 cents per
gallon gas tax
increase, to be
used for roads
and bridges,
bodes well for
the industry in
general, Steve
said.
“It’s strong in
our market right now,” he said. “We’re growing as we can and
trying to make the smartest decisions possible.”
Office ladies: (left to right) Chrissy Middle, Office Manager,
Jenna Wolfe, Bookkeeper and Susan Lee, Bookkeeper
50 Years!
Congratulations!
Congratulations and Continued Success!
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Congratulations To
Streb Construction
On Celebrating Your
50th Anniversary
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STREB CONSTRUCTION
TIMELINE
1983:
Dave Streb joins full-time
as vice president; focus
switched to concrete
“In 1983, there were only 13
building permits taken out in
all of Iowa City.”
Left to right: Dave Streb, Theresa
Clifton, Jim Stockman and Al Streb
1965
1965:
Incorporated
1990:
Bought first
slipform paver
Congratulations
on 50 years!
congrats
streb
construction
on 50
great
years!
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319-643-7135
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1992:
Steve Streb joins
full-time
2008:
Flood; President Bush
visits the Streb office
Flood of 2008, visit by President Bush to
Streb Office and Shop
2005:
Bought first central
mix concrete plant
Pictured in the background
is the floodwall built by
Streb employees and many,
many volunteers.
2015:
50-year
anniversary
YEARS!
1993:
Flood
2010:
Bought E & F Paving
in Cedar Rapids
2015
2012:
Added second central mix
mobile concrete plant; added
GPS technology
Proud to have served
Streb Construction Company
since 1995 and Eastern Iowa
clients since 1912.
- Bob Hammerberg
Congratulations
Streb Construction
On An Exceptional
50 Years in Business
“We think of you First.”
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4101 Glass Rd. NE Cedar Rapids
(319) 393-5262 www.firstiowa.com
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E & F PAVING COMPANY
E & F Paving Company, LLC, started out as E & F Cement and
Asphaltic Concrete Inc., in 1964, making it slightly older than
Streb’s, but navigating a similar pathway of a family business
adapting to the times.
family business
In this case, three families and two
generations have been a part of the
company’s continuity.
General Manager Jim Fitzpatrick, the son of co-founder Leo
Fitzpatrick, just retired this year after 50 years in the business.
His cousin, Mike Fitzpatrick, son of co-founder Ed Fitzpatrick,
had previously retired, and Rick Eggleston, son of co-founder
Jack Eggleston, remains with the company as a hands-on field
superintendent after buying out the other co-owners in 2000.
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Ed Fitzpatrick, one of
the original owners
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Paving Ushers Ridge, 2015
1.5 million cubic yards of concrete
has been poured since E & F began, growing from 4,000
cubic yards annually to more than 50,000 per year
Congratulations,
E&F Paving Company on 50 years.
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Paving in Robins, 2013
4 FROM PAGE 14
While Rick Eggleston sold the company to Streb’s
in 2010, E & F Paving continues with 25 employees
in its Cedar Rapids office, performing similar
types of work as Streb’s, but with a focus on Linn
County.
Rick said his father originally joined forces with
the Fitzpatrick brothers, who were streets department
employees knowledgeable about concrete.
Ed and Leo, along with their brothers, Irving,
Tom and Don, owned Fitzpatrick Concrete in the
1950s.
Both of the Fitzpatrick brothers had fought in
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50 Years!
Congratulations!
Congratulations and Continued Success!
630 51st Street, Marion • (319) 377-5064 • hardscapesolutions.net
Residential • Commercial • Grading • Excavation
Underground Utilities • Heavy Hauling • Trucking
305 44th St, Marion, Iowa 52302
(319) 377-3179
www.rathjeconstruction.com
Congratulations To
Streb Construction
On Celebrating Your
50th Anniversary
E & F Paving 1964 - 2015 17
Streb
Construction
4 FROM PAGE 16
World War II and Jack Eggleston joined the Marines at age 17,
just as the war was ending. He later served as Streets Commissioner
in Cedar Rapids in the early 1960s.
Don Fitzpatrick was Assistant Vice President and office manager
for the company.
Times have changed since the labor-intensive work that Rick recalls
when starting with the company as a high school junior.
“My first job was throwing a pile of dirt into a dump truck with a
shovel,” he vividly recalls.
The work still involves physical labor, but is more efficient, so it
can be done with fewer workers. Still, several employees made
a career with E & F. Bob Knake was one of the first employees,
who was with the company from its inception. “He was a very
valuable employee for over 30 years,” Rick said.
So many good people
we have worked with.
Long-time employees,
Marilyn Mittan and
Tom Meyer
Others, such as
Harvey Hop, were
teachers who
worked summers
with the company,
and many people to this day tell his father, now living in Hiawatha,
that they were able to pay their way through college by working for
the paving company.
Those workers have gone on to become lawyers, doctors, teachers
and more, Rick said. The company’s relationship with developers
and others in the city has been equally exceptional, he added.
“There are so many good people we have worked with,” he said.
While it’s impossible to calculate how many jobs the company has
completed in the past 50 years, Rick said more than 1.5 million cubic
yards of concrete has been poured since E & F began, growing
from 4,000 cubic yards annually to more than 50,000 per year.
While some of the technology has changed and the land around
the company’s office in southwest Cedar Rapids has developed
dramatically from 1970, when they first moved to the site, they are
proud that their name has carried on.
Congratulations
on 50 years in
business!
We appreciate your
loyalty and trust
throughout the
years.
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(319) 356-5800
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E & F PAVING COMPANY LLC
TIMELINE
Leo Fitzpatrick,
one of the
original owners
1976:
First $1,000,000
contract
1964
1964:
April 1st, first day
of business
Became member
of Iowa Concrete
Paving
Association
Early days grading
for paving
Updated front of
building in the 1980’s
Congratulations on
your 50th Anniversary!
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FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION
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“My first job was throwing
a pile of dirt into a dump
truck with a shovel.”
2000:
Rick Eggleston buys E & F
from the co-owners
1984:
Parking lot and apron
paving on new Cedar
Rapids Airport
1988:
Reconstruction of
Williams Boulevard
and 16th Avenue
Former owners,
Rick Eggleston and
Jim Fitzpatrick
YEARS!
1985:
First slipform
paver
2010:
E & F Paving is sold
2015
40
years
1975-2015
We congratulate
Streb Construction and E&F Paving
on 50 successful years.
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Civil engineering | Surveying
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Best Wishes
For Your
Continued Success!
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Congratulations to E&F Paving!
We are proud to be your supplier of choice.
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