About Us

Services offered by George Bougalis & Sons Co. (GBC):

We are a full service contractor specializing in excavating, but our services are not limited to excavating alone. We work primarily on the Iron range of Northern Minnesota, but we also have been known to travel if required. Some of the types of work that we regularly complete are listed below:

• Water, storm, and sewer installation and repair
• Site clearing, grading, leveling, and fill
• Building foundation, basement excavation and installation, concrete slabs
• Heavy haul trucking up to 55 tons with hauling authority and permits for MN, WI, IA, MI, and IL
• We also haul structural and other fabricated steel to all of the Taconite plants in Northern Minnesota and Michigan
• We operate several gravel pits on the Iron Range and we offer pit run gravel, sand, class 5, class1, recycle blacktop, recycle concrete, screened blackdirt, crushed rock, boulders ranging in size from 8” to 60”, taconite rock, red ore rock (various sizes)
• Small scale commercial, industrial, and residential general contracting projects
• Commercial snow removal

Our Mission:

Our mission at George Bougalis & Sons is to provide a quality service at a competitive price and to provide the best value to our customers.

History:

George Bougalis began his career operating equipment for the Iron ore mines of Northern Minnesota. There he became proficient at operating all types of large earth moving equipment. In 1954 he purchased his first dump truck, a 1948 Ford 1 ½ ton single axle dump truck. He loaded gravel with a #2 shovel in to the truck and delivered it around Hibbing, MN for a good part of 1954. Later that same year, he purchased a 1954 model Ferguson farm tractor with a front end loader attachment. This machine greatly increased his production as he could now load the truck much faster than with the #2 shovel. At the end of 1954, he purchased a backhoe attachment for the Ferguson tractor. Since 1954, George Bougalis has continued to expand and update his fleet. The scope of his company’s work has progressed from delivering dirt to a full service excavating contractor. The company has now moved into its second generation as George’s sons; Jim and John assumed the responsibilities of leading and operating the company. George remains as the CEO of the company and provides wisdom and knowledge for his two sons on a regular basis.

Why Bougalis:

At Bougalis, we think of ourselves as the company that can best serve your construction needs for site development. In business for fifty years, we have evolved our capabilities so that we are able to provide a complete site work package for our clients - giving them a "building-ready" site on schedule and on budget. Our earthwork, utilities and demolition divisions work seamlessly with one another along with our residential and trucking division. Whether as a general contractor or subcontractor, our ability to provide optimum coordination through effective communication and cooperation between our divisions and affiliates, bring projects on-line in the shortest possible time frame, with the least number of headaches.

Project Safety:

Project safety is a major concern, and our commitment is demonstrated by providing our employees with countless hours of training. We also conduct on-going project safety inspections to advise our field supervisors of any deficiencies that need immediate attention. All of our employees receive yearly MSHA training. A number of employees also receive yearly Hazardous materials training and are HAZWOPER certified.

Equipment:

Our fleet of heavy equipment is first-rate, and is continually updated to achieve the highest level of productivity and safe operation. We have mechanics on duty in our own maintenance facility to minimize the amount of downtime experienced on our projects. [ More Info ]

Employees:

Finally, the key ingredient to our success: our employees. We have a very high rate of employee retention, and their commitment to excellence is rewarded with incentives tied to company performance. You can be assured that the skilled workers assigned to your project are focused on quality, and on getting the job done on time.

Our Team Bougalis commitment to project delivery is unlike any other in our industry. Complete customer satisfaction is our goal. Our satisfaction comes from achieving that goal.