CANCO News
The latest news from Carl A. Nelson & Company about our people and projects. Articles include tags linking them to similar content.

Career growth is goal of new CANCO project engineer
Construction Management graduate Neil Gorrell was previously a CAD technician and estimator for a mechanical contractor.

Year-in-Review 2023: K-12 projects, start-up to finish
Carl A. Nelson & Company was busy with school construction all over Iowa in 2023.

Year-in-Review 2023: Rural, public health tops 2023 project list
The year is ending with Carl A. Nelson & Company healthcare projects completed, on the drawing board and underway.

Year-in-Review 2023: Industrial clients have plenty to celebrate
Among celebrations for CANCO industrial projects, Western Smokehouse Partners’ ribbon-cutting was a highlight of 2023.

Employee Spotlight: President Chris Smith, 25 years
Carl A. Nelson & Company offered the firm's future leader everything he wanted in a career, and in life away from the office and job site.

Annual CANCO challenge puts high-schoolers' skills to the test
Construction trades students from five SE Iowa high schools were given the task to frame and drywall adjoining metal stud walls with window, door openings.

Ribbon cut on CANCO truck scale, semi parking project
Company representatives took part in a ceremonial opening of a new front entry at Climax Molybdenum in Fort Madison, Iowa.

CANCO expands field leadership team with superintendent
Carl A. Nelson & Company welcomes Patrick Von Lehmden, field supervisor with more than 30 years of commercial and civil construction industry experience.

Ground broken on new Public Health building
The 8,000 square-foot, $4 million facility for Des Moines County, Iowa, is the product of an American Rescue Plan grant of $7.5 million.

Ribbon-cutting celebrates opening of new 5-6 school building
Carl A. Nelson & Company was construction manager agent for College Community School District's new 189,000 SF school on Cedar Rapids' south side.

Project Superintendent Sully Streeby is MBI Safety Champion
Carl A. Nelson & Company field supervisor recognized for completing Master Builders of Iowa jobsite safety promotion program.

Ceremony kicks off Allied Blending expansion project
Carl A. Nelson & Company is design-builder for the Keokuk, Iowa, food ingredient producer and its production and warehouse expansion project