Starting with a wheelbarrow and a shovel in Scottsdale, Arizona, Pete Jones learned concrete and construction through the “inspiration of desperation.” With a background in banking, he learned plenty about business operations, having turned around a company that makes fresh-squeezed orange juice from near bankruptcy. It was out of that success, a bout of unemployment and, above all, a promise to his son that led to Pete’s founding Protek Construction Inc., a residential and commercial concrete construction business in Kingman.While unemployed in 1994, his son Michael came to him with the idea of starting a construction company. Not believing it would ever happen, Pete suggested that if Michael could get the license qualifications, he would put up the money. Against all odds, Michael came through with the license but died shortly after at age 32. While his son’s part of the obligation ended, Pete’s was just beginning.The company started with him and his crew working on driveways for high-end residential homes in North Scottsdale.“As time went on, we grew a reliable crew, and we started doing commercial work over the next seven or eight years,” he says.Around 2005, Pete, his wife, and eight crew members moved northwest to Kingman, hoping to become the biggest fish in the pond compared to just another 10-man concrete crew in the Phoenix area.The move was a success. Pete claims Protek Construction is the largest concrete contractor in Kingman and one of the biggest in northwest Arizona.See the related video here.Nearly every job Protek does comes by referral or via former customers.One general contractor in Mojave County said of Protek Construction: “There’s nobody that can touch them.”Protek Construction was one of 12 finalists for Equipment World’s 2023 Contractor of the Year program.Good people, good work“We believe str …
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