The earliest W.W. Clyde & Co. crews graded roads with horses, slip scrapers, and hard manual labor. Every foot of ground moved required sweat, coordination, and determination. It was slow, demanding work, but it set the foundation for everything that would follow.
Over time, new tools arrived. Diesel replaced teams of horses. Mechanical scrapers became larger, faster, and capable of moving more material in less time. What once took days began to take hours.
Innovation has never been something we adopted reluctantly. It is something we pursued, tested, refined, and put to work. That spirit continues today as Clyde Companies builds with GPS-guided dozers, drone surveying, automated batching, fleet telematics, and digital planning tools that improve efficiency, accuracy, safety, and quality on every job.
The difference between a horse-drawn scraper and a GPS-controlled blade is significant, but the heart behind them is the same: a crew committed to doing better tomorrow than we did yesterday.
Progress is a mindset. It is an experience shared between generations. It is the willingness to learn, to adapt, to try something new. It is in crews from 1926 finding a better way to cut a grade, and in crews from 2026 refining digital workflows so projects move safer and smoother.
For 100 years, Clyde Companies has continuously improved how we build so we can improve what we build.
We honor the past, we embrace the present, and we invest in the future because progress is not an accident.
It is who we are.
It is how we build.
It is how we move forward.
