Sustainability
Keep reading to learn more about our commitment to sustainability within our four focus areas: Safety, Environment, People, and Products
Safety
Interstate Concrete & Asphalt strives to assure the safety and wellbeing of each employee across all departments. Our safety priorities include eliminating serious harm, becoming a learning organization, and cultivating an employee-driven safety culture.
To meet these goals, we incorporate various safety trainings and best practices, such as, Human Performance Trainings, ITCPs/Subcontractor Safety, See Stop Do Day, Risk Assessments (TRACK), Smith System Defensive Driving Training, and many other safety campaigns.
Safety Stories
Environment
At Interstate Concrete & Asphalt, we recognize our role in maintaining a healthy environment. Some of our initiatives include, optimizing our trucking routes, recycling water, using belts/stackers instead of haul trucks, and providing Environmental Product Declarations for our ready-mix products.
- EPDs are a third-party verified document comprising of the environmental impacts of a given product. They are crucial tools to promote accountability and collaboration with our customers to help reduce our environmental footprint.
People
At Interstate Concrete & Asphalt, we believe in empowering our employees, providing them with needed support and resources, and maintaining our long-standing relationships with various community organizations and associations.
We are also actively working to expand further into Inclusion and Diversity by leveraging new recruiting pipelines within our community, such as LGBTQIA2S+ programs, Second Chance (helping previously incarcerated individuals), Military Job Match, and Agricultural Education programs.
People Stories
Products
At Interstate Concrete & Asphalt, we aim for excellence in delivering customers quality products with a minimal environmental impact. That is why our operations include the following initiatives:
- Recycling asphalt
- Produced and selling recycled crushed concrete
- Using leftover concrete to form ecology blocks
- Using Warm-Mix Technology for our concrete mixes