At AGC of Utah’s 2018 annual convention, a delighted Slade Opheikens, president and CEO of Ogden-based R&O Construction, accepted the Contractor of the Year award from the Utah Division of Facilities Construction and Management (DFCM) for his company’s recent projects with the state of Utah. Currently, R&O is at work on its largest state project to date, a $90-million, 1,600-unit student housing building at Utah Valley University in Orem.
Both events are major milestones on a long and winding road for R&O, and, Opheikens admits, a pretty good way to celebrate an anniversary for a company that began as an area home builder 40 years ago. In the years since it founding, R&O, which reported regional revenue of $177.5 million in 2018, has completed projects across the country. In addition to its Ogden headquarters, the contractor has offices in Salt Lake City and Las Vegas.