How We Do It
Services & Capabilities
Delivering comprehensive heavy civil construction through our specialized fleet that ensures strict project control and exceptional field execution.
Greater Control.
Better Results.
By self-performing our core civil construction disciplines, E.S. Wagner Co. delivers greater certainty and accountability on every project. From large-scale mass earthwork to deep foundation structures, our multi-disciplined team utilizes an advanced company-owned fleet of specialized equipment. This self-perform approach provides greater control over schedules, safety, quality, and project execution from start to finish.
Capabilities
Our Core Disciplines
Site Preparation | Development
Our expertise transforms raw land into construction-ready sites through precise planning, grading, coordination, and execution, ensuring schedule certainty and long-term performance.
Erosion and Sediment Control
Protecting project sites, surrounding waterways, and ensuring regulatory compliance through proactive solutions that minimize environmental risk and support uninterrupted construction progress.
Mass Earthwork | Grading
Moving millions of cubic yards with urgency and efficiency, while delivering a finished project to exacting tolerances, our mass earthwork and grading expertise optimizes schedules, reduces risk, and drives successful project delivery.
Excavation
Performing specialty excavation to fit any site condition or geology, from expansive site developments to highly restricted facility expansions in any soil, from mass rock formations to organic material deposits.
Shoreline Protection Systems
Beautifying, stabilizing, and preserving our shorelines and waterways through decades of experience, innovative concepts, and diverse capabilities, facilitating the optimum approach in any condition.
Stormwater Management Systems
Controlling runoff, protecting infrastructure, and supporting regulatory compliance, our stormwater management experience promotes site performance and reduces risk and schedule impacts.
Underground Utility Infrastructure
We build the essential infrastructure beneath the surface that enables fully functional facilities above it.
Deep Foundations | Piling
Our foundation support capabilities allow for the optimum approach to providing the strength and stability required for complex structures, creating a reliable platform for long-term performance.
Structural Concrete
Delivering durable, high-performance concrete structures through expert planning, precision placement, and quality craftsmanship that support long-term structural integrity.
Shoring
Providing safe, reliable support systems that protect workers, stabilize excavations, and enable efficient construction in complex environments.
Bridge Construction
Building critical transportation infrastructure with proven expertise, innovative solutions, and precise execution that connect communities and support long-term mobility.
Concrete Paving
Constructing durable, high-quality rigid pavement systems that withstand heavy use, optimize performance, and deliver lasting value for transportation and site infrastructure projects.
Precon Services
Estimating & Cost Planning
Our past experience and detailed historical data allow us to quickly produce accurate and complete cost estimates during project planning and budgetary stages, even when the available details are limited.
Value Engineering
Applying a continuous improvement model, we constantly look for avenues to provide concepts that enhance quality, performance, and efficiency of delivery while reducing cost.
Constructability Review
During the design development stage, we readily review initial concepts and offer practical alternatives that improve constructability, shorten schedules, and reduce cost.
Scheduling & Phasing
Our detailed approach to every project, which includes a CPM schedule during the pursuit stage, offers us the opportunity to modify schedules to deliver our client’s critical milestones in the most efficient, constructible, and cost-competitive sequence.
Earthwork Analysis and Optimization
Drawing on decades of experience excavating and embanking soils of variable geologies and properties, we offer earthwork balancing design solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for costly material import or off-site disposal.
Utility Coordination
Since utilities have the potential to completely impede project progress, we leverage past relationships and coordinate with providers, facilitating practical and realistic relocation solutions that maintain the critical path.
Risk Assessment
Risk limitation is the goal of every client we serve, and our detailed pre-construction approach allows us to understand, communicate, and mitigate potential risks before they become reality during construction.
BIM, Modeling & Digital Construction Support
Utilizing the latest in technology, our engineering staff produces 3D models during the pre-construction phase to aid in cost estimating, management of design revisions, and concept rendering, promoting global project understanding and a collaborative approach.
Alternative Project Delivery Methods
Design-Build
Drawing on decades of design-build experience and with the ability to advance alternative technical concepts incorporated into past projects from across our geographic footprint, we provide constructible fixed-price solutions without the necessity for excessive risk allowances.
Progressive Design-Build
Almost eighty years spent in the construction industry have allowed us to establish relationships with top design firms across numerous sectors, allowing us to partner with the best organizations to provide our clients a purpose-built Progressive Design-Build project team that capitalizes on the specialties of our company as well as our engineering colleagues.
CMGC
We are passionate about opportunities that allow us to apply our diverse experience and technical capabilities to pre-construction consultation, and our staff can quickly provide estimate refinement and risk assessment, providing for a seamless transition into the construction phase of a Construction Manager/General Contractor project, without financial or schedule-driven surprises.
Projects by Service
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NORFOLK SOUTHERN AUTOMOTIVE — DISTRIBUTION CENTER
Fostoria, OH
1.5M CY
Earthwork
105K CY
3” Minus Stone Base
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LEESVILLE CRYOGENIC PROCESSING AND — FRACTIONATION FACILITY
Leesville, OH
284,000 CY
Earthwork Excavation
1.36 M
SF Chemically Stabilized Building Pad
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ALLIED WASTE LANDFILL — NEW CELL CONSTRUCTION & WASTE RELOCATION
Carey, OH
470K CY
Waste Relocation
215K CY
Excavation
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ST. JOSEPH RIVER FLOOD CONTROL
Fort Wayne, IN
5,500 FT
of Flood Wall, 5’ to 15’ Tall
175,000 CY
of Cohesive Embankment
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OHIO CAT EQUIPMENT AND PARTS FACILITY — ENTRANCE DRIVE AND SITEWORK
Perrysburg, OH
90K CY
Earthwork
16K LF
Utilities (Waterline, Sanitary sewer, and Storm Sewer)
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In Progress
SCDOT D — B BRIDGE PACKAGE 20 — DESIGN-BUILD BRIDGE REPLACEMENTS – SCDOT
South Carolina
3
Bridges Totaling 2,070 LF of Cored Slabs
4
Bridges Totaling 6,622 LF of Box Beams
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TOLEDO MUD HENS STADIUM — SITE DEVELOPMENT, DEEP FOUNDATIONS, AND SHORING
Toledo, OH
63K SF
Permanent and Temporary Steel Sheet Piling
2400 FT
36” Drilled Shaft Foundations
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SCDOT D — B BRIDGE PACKAGE 15 — DESIGN-BUILD BRIDGE REPLACEMENTS – SCDOT
South Carolina
2
Bridges Totaling 1,830 LF of Cored Slabs
3
Bridges Totaling 6,140 LF of Box Beams
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NATIONAL LIME AND STONE — STRIPPING PROJECTS
Carey, OH | Bucyrus, OH | Delaware, OH | Findlay, OH
12.3M CY
Excavation
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US-30 ROADWAY & BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION — OHIO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION — WYANDOT/CRAWFORD
Ohio
16
Bridge Structures
2.3M CY
Borrow Excavation
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GREENBELT PARKWAY — NEW ROAD CONSTRUCTION PH I & II
Toledo, OH
384,000
Tons Solid Waste Removal
2.2M
Gallons Regulated Water Management
Proven Across Sectors
Commercial & Industrial
Comprehensive self-performed site development solutions, utilizing our expansive fleet of specialized equipment.
Transportation
Decades of experience in building, improving, and maintaining critical interstate road and bridge infrastructure.
Airport Construction
Constructing and enhancing the infrastructure essential for efficient airport operations in the highly complex and technical environment of active airfields.
Water & Wastewater Facilities
Comprehensive water treatment infrastructure solutions, self-performed across multiple disciplines to deliver reliable, efficient systems.
Energy Services
Turnkey site development and heavy civil construction services that support the reliable delivery of power, utility, and energy infrastructure.
Rail Facilities
Developing and improving rail and intermodal infrastructure, delivering safe, efficient facilities that keep freight and transportation networks moving.
Earthen Containment
Specialized construction of engineered containment systems designed to provide long-term retention, environmental protection, durability, and performance.
Flood Control Systems
Building resilient flood control infrastructure that safeguards communities, critical assets, and natural resources from changing water conditions.