What Gilliardi Logging & Construction does

Gilliardi Logging & Construction Inc. is a privately held, family-owned heavy civil services and material recycling company headquartered in Tacoma, Washington. Founded in 1969 by Bill and Paulette Gilliardi, the company provides land clearing, demolition, trucking, wood grinding, crushing, and screening services to construction, development, and infrastructure projects across the Pacific Northwest's Puget Sound region. A separate recycling facility in Olympia, WA processes concrete, asphalt, rock, sod, and wood debris into manufactured landscape and construction products including bark, compost, topsoil, mulch, recycled concrete, and recycled asphalt. Headcount has grown from 2 employees at founding to 35+ employees during peak season.

The company's underlying technology is heavy industrial equipment — grinders, crushers, screening machinery, and trucking assets — rather than software or digital systems. There is no disclosed API, software platform, proprietary digital tooling, or AI application. Its go-to-market is traditional B2B sales-led, with customers contacting the company via phone or website to obtain quote-based pricing for project services and unit pricing for recycled materials sold at the Olympia facility. Revenue is generated through project-based service contracts (one-time/transactional fees for land clearing, demolition, and trucking), transactional sales of recycled construction and landscape materials, and disposal/dumping fees. Customers are segmented horizontally across residential homeowners purchasing landscape materials and commercial contractors procuring materials and site preparation services for larger projects.

Bill and Paulette Gilliardi co-founded the company in 1969. Their son Chad Gilliardi joined in 1995 and acquired majority ownership in 2010, formalizing the second-generation transition. The company has no institutional investors, no subsidiaries, no disclosed patents or certifications, no partnerships, and no public revenue disclosure. Its digital presence is limited to a basic company website; it relies primarily on direct customer contact through two physical locations (Tacoma headquarters and Olympia recycling facility) and phone rather than digital marketing channels.

Name

Gilliardi Logging & Construction

Legal name

Gilliardi Logging & Construction Inc.

Website

https://gilliardi.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1969

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Gilliardi Logging & Construction is a family-owned Pacific Northwest heavy civil services company providing land clearing, demolition, trucking, and recycled construction/landscape material manufacturing for residential and commercial customers in the Puget Sound region since 1969.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Construction Site Preparation & Material Recycling

NAICS

Forestry and Logging (113)

SIC

Forestry (800)

akta.pro primary industry

Wood Waste Processing & Recycling (Mulch, Biomass Feedstock) (EUAIAHAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Contract Chipping & Residue Recovery Services (AFAMAJAO), Borrow Pit Development & Materials Hauling (On-site Aggregates) (AFAMAHAK)

Keywords

• Land clearing services
• Demolition services
• Construction trucking
• Recycled aggregate materials
• Landscape material manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Tacoma

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Land Clearing Services: On-site land clearing services for construction, development, and infrastructure projects
2. Demolition Services: Demolition services for site preparation
3. Trucking Services: Transportation and hauling services for materials
4. Recycled Material Sales: Sale of recycled construction and landscape materials including recycled concrete, asphalt, gravel, mulch, bark, compost, topsoil, and fill dirt
5. Material Processing: Processing of concrete, asphalt, rock, and wood through grinding, crushing, and screening operations

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Gilliardi Logging & Construction provides land clearing, demolition, trucking, and material processing services for construction, development, and infrastructure projects across the Pacific Northwest. The company also operates a recycling facility that processes concrete, asphalt, rock, sod, and wood debris into manufactured construction and landscape materials including bark, compost, topsoil, mulch, gravel, and recycled concrete and asphalt.

Product overview

Gilliardi Logging & Construction is a land clearing, demolition, trucking, and material recycling company serving the Pacific Northwest since 1969. The company operates as a single integrated service offering organized around two main areas: site preparation and material processing services (land clearing, wood grinding, demolition, trucking, crushing, and screening), and a recycling facility that processes concrete, asphalt, rock, brush, and wood debris into landscape and construction products (bark, compost, topsoil, mulch, gravel, recycled concrete, and recycled asphalt). The company serves both residential and commercial customers in the Puget Sound region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Land Clearing Professional land clearing services for construction, development, and infrastructure projects across the Pacific Northwest, preparing sites for subsequent construction activity.
• Demolition Demolition services for structures and buildings with debris recycling capabilities, supporting site preparation for construction and development projects.
• Trucking Transportation and hauling services for materials, equipment, and debris related to construction and land clearing projects.
• Material Processing (Crushing, Screening, and Wood Grinding) Crushing, screening, and wood grinding services that process concrete, asphalt, rock, and wood debris into graded materials for various construction applications.
• Recycling of Concrete, Asphalt, and Land Clearing Debris Comprehensive recycling of concrete, asphalt, rock, sod, and wood debris into reusable products at the company's Olympia recycling facility, one of the largest land clearing material recyclers in the Puget Sound area.
• Recycled Construction and Landscape Materials Manufactured recycled materials including recycled concrete, recycled asphalt, gravel, mulch, bark, compost, topsoil, and fill dirt produced from recycled construction and landscape debris.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Regional players

• Lakeside Industries: Lakeside Industries is a major Pacific Northwest paving and construction materials provider supplying asphalt, aggregate, and related services across Washington and Oregon, making it a directly comparable regional peer for Gilliardi's aggregate recycling and site-preparation work in the same PNW geography.
• Pioneer Sand Company: Pioneer Sand is a multi-state landscape and construction materials supplier offering decorative rock, mulches, soils, and aggregates, comparable to Gilliardi's landscape product line (mulch, bark, compost, topsoil, gravel) though serving a different geographic footprint.
• Corliss Resources: Corliss Resources is a Pacific Northwest aggregate, sand, gravel, and recycled materials supplier serving the greater Puget Sound region, directly comparable to Gilliardi's recycled aggregate and landscape material product lines within the same geography.

Broad incumbents

• CalPortland Company: CalPortland is a major West Coast producer of cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, and asphalt with operations across the Pacific Northwest, serving overlapping commercial and infrastructure customers and competing with Gilliardi in recycled aggregate and concrete products.
• Granite Construction: Granite Construction is a large national infrastructure, construction materials, and site-preparation company with Pacific Northwest operations, comparable in its integrated site-preparation, materials, and paving offerings but at materially greater scale than Gilliardi.
• Republic Services: Republic Services is one of the largest U.S. environmental services and recycling companies, operating C&D recycling facilities and landfills nationwide; it competes with Gilliardi in C&D material processing and recycling, especially for larger commercial demolition contracts, but at vastly greater scale and geographic breadth.
• Weyerhaeuser Company: Weyerhaeuser is one of the world's largest private timberland owners and forest products manufacturers with significant Pacific Northwest operations, sharing Gilliardi's historical logging and wood-residue processing roots but operating at vastly greater scale and vertical integration.
• Knife River Corporation: Knife River is a large publicly traded aggregates, ready-mix concrete, asphalt, and construction services provider with significant Pacific Northwest operations, operating a much broader portfolio than Gilliardi but competing in the same regional aggregates and construction materials markets.

Others

• Brown Bear Corporation: Brown Bear Corporation manufactures land-clearing and forestry equipment (brush chippers, mulchers, attachments) used by logging, land-clearing, and recycling operators like Gilliardi; it is an adjacent equipment supplier rather than a direct competitor but is thematically connected to the forestry and C&D recycling value chain.

Direct peers

• DTG Recycle: DTG Recycle is a Pacific Northwest construction and demolition (C&D) materials recycler that processes concrete, asphalt, wood, and other debris into reusable aggregate and landscape products, directly competing with Gilliardi's Olympia recycling facility in the same regional market with an overlapping customer base of contractors and developers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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