Building to Last
At KLB, we accomplish our client’s goals through perseverance, hard work, and believing in one another. We put people first—trusting the expertise and ideas of our team to innovate and push the boundaries of what’s possible.
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Capabilities
Underground utilities
Dry or wet – we install and repair storm, sewer, water, and conduit across all market types.
Stream & Wetland Mitigation
We reroute and renew bodies of water and riparian habitats to improve our region’s biodiversity.
Grading & retaining walls
Big or small – we blast, push, cut, scrape, load, and haul dirt and rock and build the walls that support our grading operations.
Culverts & Buried Structures
Humans, fish, or animals – we construct culverts and buried structures to get them from here to there.
Why We’re Different
Our family-oriented and supportive work environment leads to crews that are integrated, well-organized, and close collaborators. Visit one of our jobsites and you’ll see a cohesive team in action—one that embraces technology, prioritizes safety, shares resources between departments, and holds one another accountable.
Safety
We Watch Out for Each Other
We never have, and never will compromise on the well-being of our employees, our jobsites, or our surrounding communities. Nothing is more important than the safety of our valued crew, and our close personal relationships drive our strong safety culture.
We use advanced techniques in communication, training, and technology to build and inspire a tight-knit team who are responsible for the safety of themselves, their co-workers and the traveling public.
Our safety incentive program culminates each year with the KLB Annual Safety Awards Meeting. This motivational event provides generous incentive awards and presentations to empower and inspire responsibility, teamwork, leadership, and pride in creating an injury-free workplace.
Safety Performance
We have been recognized by the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Washington, WSDOT and other organizations for a number of important safety performance achievements.
- Top performer for safety and claims management, Top 8 Experience Modification Rates (EMR’s) of .49 under .60 and top performer for maintaining a 6- year average EMR of .68.
- AGC Safety Team Member for each of the past 23 years.
- 1st Place, AGC of America Construction Safety Excellence Award in the Heavy Highway Division.
- Recipient of Washington State Worker Compensation premium refunds as a member of the AGC Retrospective Group Program.
- Received the lowest Washington State Worker’s Compensation Experience Modification
