Awards

Awards of Merit & Excellence

Cadillac Asphalt is an annual recipient of numerous Awards of Merit and Awards of Excellence form Asphalt Pavement Association of Michigan (APAM) and Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). In 2011 Cadillac Asphalt was awarded three Awards of Merit for the following projects:

  1. GM VDTA Pad at General Motors Proving Grounds in Milford, Oakland County
  2. Biddle Ave (Jefferson Ave) in the City of Wyandotte, Wayne County
  3. Harper Ave in the City of St. Clair Shores, Macomb County

Cadillac Asphalt has received The Diamond Achievement Award for 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

NAPA’s Diamond Achievement for Excellence in Hot-Mix Asphalt Plant/Site Operations was developed to assist asphalt companies to be good corporate citizenship and neighbor-friendly operations, and to provide an avenue for continuous improvement.

Photo of Diamond Achievement Award

Cadillac Asphalt has received The Diamond Quality Commendation for 2010 and 2011

The Diamond Quality Commendation deals with the quality of the material produced. The areas evaluated include quality management, RAP and aggregate handling, asphalt storage, drying and mixing, air quality, truck scales, silos, and control rooms.

Cadillac Asphalt is awarded The Liv Levy Annual Safety Award for 2010

This “roving” trophy is presented by Edward C Levy Company to the organization with the best safety performance in the past 12 months. The award scoring is based on the following criteria:

  1. Total Recordable Incident Rate vs the Industry National Average.
  2. Lost Time Incident Rate (measuring how fast lost time accidents are occurring).
  3. Severity Rate (measuring the lost time accident severity in lost days).
  4. Number of days since last lost-time accident (measuring how long the performance is sustained).

The four criteria method is designed to go beyond having just one measurement, and, instead measures an organization’s performance in the areas of both total recordable and lost-time accidents.

Based upon the criteria listed above, the winner of the award has one year’s worth of “bragging” rights. Last year’s winner, Indiana Flame Service, wanted very badly to repeat but recognized how difficult it is to maintain the levels required to win a second time in a row.