The company
Cutting, coring, and welding. Three trades, one standard: correct the first time.
The story
CCW stands for cutting, coring, and welding. That's the whole pitch. We're a Denver contractor built on the team's combined 40 years of experience across steel, welding, and concrete trades, and the work shows: accurate cuts, correct depth, welds that pass inspection, and efficiency. Separations that keep the trades behind us moving instead of waiting.
Our clients are all trades and contractors, including general, MEPF, and civil. Most of what they need falls somewhere between a saw cut and a structural weld, such as slab penetrations, wall sawing, coring, selective demolition, pour backs, or a steel modification that has to hold tolerance. The full scope list is on our services page.
The mission is short: put communication, quality, and safety first, and meet the timeline. Any timeline. That runs from the pre-task plan and hazard analysis before mobilization, through time on site, to final cleanup. A job isn't done when the concrete's cut or the welds are complete. It's done when the site's ready for the next crew.
Leadership
Erik spent nine years as a welder working to AWS structural, aerospace, and railroad codes before moving to the other side of the weld: nondestructive examination. That started with ultrasonic shear-wave inspection at a pipe mill in Louisiana, then rope-access NDE and welding on ultra-deepwater drill ships and production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico (America), plus chemical plants, refineries, and power plants.
The work moved north. Fixed-leg platforms in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Pump stations on the Alaska Pipeline at Prudhoe Bay. A launch complex on Kodiak Island. In 2018 he relocated to Denver.
Conrad CCW brings that inspector's eye to the tools. Work gets planned and checked to the standard an inspector would hold it to.
Leadership
Brandon's construction background dates to his youth, when he began working in concrete. After high school he kept working in construction while earning a degree in Mechanical Engineering from CU Boulder. As much as he loved engineering, he couldn't bring himself to step away from jobsites.
He went to work for a commercial GC as a superintendent for three years, doing steel, concrete, and building on the side. After leaving that position, he worked on his own in concrete, steel, and general contracting until partnering with Erik to found Conrad Cutting, Coring, & Welding.
His background in engineering and general construction, combined with a diverse hands-on skill set, makes him an asset both on and off the jobsite.
The equipment
And more. Some of these jobs ran on normal hours; a few ran around the clock because the schedule said so. For more details, see our services page.
The standard
Four habits. Every scope, no exceptions.
Pre-task plan and hazard analysis before mobilization, and layout confirmed against the drawings on site. If the drawings and the field disagree, we call before we cut.
OSHA Table 1 dust control on every cut, containment where slurry or debris could travel, and a fire watch posted on hot work. A recordable costs more time than any of it.
After-hours and emergency work is part of the job. We cut stem walls at dusk to keep a joist package on schedule, and cut overnight so a client could re-form and pour a corrected footer without losing a day.
One point of contact from quote to closeout, coordinating daily with your site leadership. No surprises in the field and none on the invoice.
Proof
Steel joists over the CMU wall at the end of an after-hours push: the schedule held. That's the photo we keep.
See the workWork with us
Send drawings or a scope description and we'll get a quote back to you. If it's urgent, call. We answer.