News & Updates

CWR Contracting’s Coleman Asphalt Plant has earned NAPA’s 2026 Diamond Quality Commendation for Excellence in Paving Operations, recognizing the team’s focus on responsible operations, continuous improvement and quality work.

CWR Contracting hosted BuildHER Florida, a two-day camp designed to introduce high school students to the asphalt and construction industry. Students heard from women across the industry, explored different career paths, and visited an asphalt plant to learn how roads are produced, tested, and built.

CWR Contracting was honored to receive four project awards at the 2025 Asphalt Contractors Association of Florida (ACAF) Annual Convention. The awards recognized projects in Okaloosa, Hillsborough, Gadsden, and Sumter counties and reflect the dedication, expertise, and hard work of the employees who help deliver quality infrastructure across Florida every day.

CWR Contracting marks 50 years of building Florida's infrastructure and communities, reflecting on the people, values, and milestones that shaped the company since 1976.

CWR Contracting earns seven 2024 NAPA Quality in Asphalt Paving Awards, recognizing teams across office, plants, labs, and paving crews.

CWR's Panama City and Coleman asphalt plants receive NAPA's 2024 Diamond Quality Commendation for excellence in paving operations.

CWR Contracting builds Florida's first bioluminescent multi-use path, a 4-mile glow-in-the-dark walkway connecting Brooks Bridge and Marler Bridge in Okaloosa County.

CWR Contracting begins a nearly 2-mile resurfacing project on SR 68 / Orange Avenue in Fort Pierce, with milling, share-lane markings, curb ramps, and lighting upgrades.

CWR wins NAPA's 2023 Larry H. Lemon Quality in Construction Award for SE 73rd Avenue in Marion County, Florida, recognizing a top-ten general paving project that used reclaimed asphalt pavement.

CWR's Sumterville (The Villages) asphalt plant earns NAPA's 2023 Diamond Quality Commendation for Excellence, recognizing the highest standards in asphalt production and operations.

CWR completes the Indian River Boulevard resurfacing in Vero Beach, widening the North-South route from 53rd Street to the Merrill Barber Bridge with a new 5-foot bike lane and ADA sidewalk improvements.

CWR partners with FDOT to take over and complete the CR 580 Sam Allen Road widening in Plant City after the original contractor defaulted, restoring community confidence.

CWR receives multiple ACAF awards at the Ponte Vedra conference for projects ranging from US 90 and SR 750 to Okeechobee Airport, Eglin AFB, and the SunTrax Vehicle Test Facility.

CWR completes a 1.5-mile reconstruction of US 441 in Lake County (Griffin North to MLK Boulevard), with milling, resurfacing, traffic separators, drainage, and sidewalk rebuilds.

CWR's Wildwood and Plant City teams win NAPA's 2021 Quality in Construction Award for SR 44 in District 5 and SR 570 on the Polk Parkway, FDOT Turnpike Enterprise's first automated machine guidance pilot.

CWR's Tallahassee and Hosford teams win NAPA's Quality in Construction Award for SR 57 (US 19) in Jefferson County, an eight-plus-mile resurfacing using a high-polymer mix design with recycled materials.

CWR's Plant City team wins the NAPA Quality in Construction Award for the US 98 and Tribly Road Roundabout in Pasco County, FDOT District 7's first built roundabout, completed in 114 days.

Women of Asphalt feature: Susie Alvarez, Quality Control Technician at CWR's Panama City Division, tests road construction and concrete materials and verifies straight-edge smoothness.

CWR acquires two hot-mix asphalt plants in Pensacola and DeFuniak Springs, Florida, expanding its panhandle footprint along the Interstate 10 corridor.

CWR's first commitment is to safety, with a zero-incident culture, continuous task and hazard-specific training, stop-work authority for every employee, and an annual all-hands training day.

CWR announces its new Palm City division on Florida's east coast, adding a hot-mix asphalt plant and approximately 100 employees adjacent to its Okeechobee division.

CWR wins the 2019 ACAF Resurfacing (Urban) District 3 and Statewide Award for its SR 267 Pat Thomas Parkway project plus two Special Project awards for Doolittle Airfield and Zephyrhills Municipal Airport.

CWR announces two new divisions: a liquid asphalt terminal in Panama City, Florida and a hot-mix asphalt and ready-mix concrete division in Okeechobee, Florida.

Highway construction is a dynamic industry that offers lifelong careers from plant managers and engineers to mechanics, accountants, and crews. CWR is one of Florida's premier asphalt contractors and is hiring.

CWR wins five 2019 NAPA Diamond Commendation Awards at the National Asphalt Pavement Association Conference in Marco Island, Florida, recognizing Freeport, Plant City, Tallahassee, Wildwood, and Panama City plants.

CWR receives six 2019 NAPA Quality in Construction Awards at the National Asphalt Pavement Association conference in Marco Island, Florida.

CWR is recognized as a Veteran Friendly Employer at CareerSource Capital Region's 2018 Paychecks for Patriots Hiring Fair at Florida State University.

CWR's SR 2 from CR 177 to Ten Mile Creek project in Holmes County is featured in ACAF Magazine and AsphaltPro after winning Resurfacing-Rural District 3.

CWR completes the SR 10 (US 90) resurfacing project in Okaloosa County, a 3.9-mile improvement featured in the Northwest Florida Daily News.

CWR receives the 2018 ACAF Resurfacing (Rural) District 3 Award for its SR 2 milling and resurfacing project in Holmes County, Florida.

CWR received five 2018 NAPA Quality in Construction Awards at the National Asphalt Pavement Association conference in San Diego, California.

CWR opens its newest asphalt plant at 2102 Jim Johnson Road in Plant City, Florida. Plant City Mayor Rick Lott and city leaders joined the August 16, 2017 ribbon-cutting on a 43-acre site between Orlando and Tampa.

CWR receives two prestigious 2017 Excellence in Pavement awards from ACAF and FDOT for its S.R. 59 and S.R. 30 resurfacing projects across northwest Florida.