Ken Kortman CFMA Subcontractor Executive of the Year

We are thrilled to announce that our CEO, Ken Kortman, has been awarded the prestigious Construction Management Finance Association – Valley of the Sun Chapter (CFMA-VOS) Subcontractor of the Year Award. This award recognizes top leaders in the industry who have led their companies in amazing ways and had an impact in the construction industry […]

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Kortman’s 40th year celebration continued with an event to thank our clients and vendors for all their support.   We spent a beautiful afternoon together enjoying food, friendship, and spring training baseball.  The Pepsi Patio at Salt River Fields was a wonderful venue to enjoy the game and the company of clients, suppliers, and advisors.  The Diamondbacks did their part […]

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The iconic construction site hardhat offers physical head protection but does nothing to protect what may be going on inside that head. To reduce the stigma about mental health and publicly reinforce our commitment to support, we have distributed an official, Mental Health Matters / Kortman Cares hardhat sticker to our teams.  May is Mental Health Awareness […]

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Our CEO Ken Kortman threw down the gauntlet and issued a fitness challenge. He bet the whole Kortman team that no one could beat him in recording more steps walked in a week, putting a mystery prize on the line.  It was a tough challenge, since some of our field team log 10,000 steps or […]

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On March 1, 2022 we began our 40th year in business. Looking back, we’ve had the privilege of working beside some of the very finest people in the industry. Many have shaped the culture at Kortman to be one where each person is valued as a key member of the team, where service to our […]

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Construction Industry Alliance Suicide Prevention

September is Suicide Prevention Month.  According to the CDC, construction occupations have the highest rate of suicide and the highest number of suicides across all occupations. In 2019, Kortman joined the Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention and took the pledge. Suicide Prevention Pledge – Contractor This is to certify that our company will adopt and commit […]

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Phoenix, AZ, July 26, 2021— Kortman, Inc. today announced it has achieved Bronze in Associated Builders and Contractor’s STEP Safety Management System, meaning the company is 655% safer than the industry average. Founded more than three decades ago, STEP has evolved into a world-class safety program that dramatically improves safety performance among construction industry participants. […]

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This excerpt is a popular section originally created for an internal leadership meeting. Our Director of Safety describes a real incident that took place a year earlier, involving a concrete core dropping a relatively short distance and hitting a person on a construction site. A fun experiment illustrates just how dangerous the event was. Personal […]

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Jonathan Nez and Thomas Adkins

A job-site conversation between co-workers about the hardships being suffered due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Navajo Nation grew into a much larger act of compassion. The Native American communities of Arizona have been especially challenged with a need for water.     After their conversation, Kortman’s Tad Adkins and Foreman, Jon Nez started making […]

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Kortman's response to the COVID-19 epidemic