Penro Construction Company

10/16/2026

We are off to a good start on our water main replacement project in Wayne. We are replacing water mains and services up to the ROW on Logan, Nebraska, and Windom Streets from 7th St (Hwy 35) to 10th St in the middle of Wayne. In all, 9 blocks of water main and 76 services will be replaced. This is a large, and much needed, investment in Wayne’s infrastructure.

Due to brick streets, several established trees, and tight working conditions this project is mostly being built by directional drilling of the pipe. A directional drill pushes a steerable rod into the ground and pulls back the pipe. While normally more expensive than open cut installation, projects like this show enough savings in restoration of the streets, driveways, and landscaping to make it a viable option.

Bauer Underground of Norfolk is performing the directional boring for us on this project. In the beginning of the video you can see their drilling rig set up and pulling pipe back. Our crew is on the other end installing pipe and helping with the pulling process. Once the water main is in we will dig in any pipe necessary and make connections to the mains. After testing the mains we will dig up services and Bauer will help with boring those also. After all pipe is installed and operational we will unhook the old mains and abandon them. Concrete sidewalks, paving, and replacement of brick paving will be performed by Jerico LLC of Pender and seeding will be performed by Autumn Custom Seeding of Dakota City.

We appreciate The City of Wayne trusting us to take on a project like this in their town. We have a great team of subs and suppliers and we’re looking forward to working in Wayne the next couple of months.

10/10/2026

Today is the day! Dozer Day Nebraska is at Christiansen Field in Fremont today and tomorrow. It’s half construction site / half amusement park. Your kids will love it!

10/05/2026

It’s Dozer Day week!

Don’t miss the opportunity to have your kids not only see construction equipment up close but to operate it with a trained volunteer too. This event is a HUGE hit with kids of all ages (maximum height restrictions apply to run equipment). See details below and check out FAQs at: https://nebraska.dozerday.org/faqs/

We’ll see you there!

09/22/2026

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08/28/2026

The sun’s coming up and the dirt’s going down. Our crew is building a pad for a new home in the southwest corner of Pender this morning. It’s great to see our community grow!

07/16/2026

07/09/2026

Now that the open cut underground portion of our project in Pender is pretty well wrapped up we have moved one crew on to another project. Dyllon’s crew is now installing site utilities for a large addition at Logan View Public Schools for Hausmann Construction.

We will be installing new storm sewer mains and both installing new and relocating existing water, sewer, and irrigation lines for two new buildings on their campus. This video shows us installing 24” RCP storm sewer to drain the parking lot and an access road.

If you have ever wondered how they came up with the name of their school this video should answer that. The view of the Logan Valley is spectacular from their location, even on a hazy day.

06/20/2026

This past week was National Trench Safety Week. This annual recognition within our industry gives us a chance to intentionally highlight trench safety and its importance on our jobsites. The highlight of the week are National Utility Contractors Association (NUCA) Trench Safety Stand Down events across the country. These events bring contractors together to stop production for a day and show the importance of safety to our employees and teach them about new products that can help protect them.

Yesterday our crews attended the NUCA of Nebraska Trench Safety Stand Down held in Wahoo. They had sessions on access and egress (getting into and out of the trench), ladder safety, rigging, and safety with cut-off saws among other topics. There was also a demonstration with a mock trench rescue performed by Lincoln Fire and Rescue. Sometimes the best way to reinforce the importance of safety is to show what happens if you aren’t safe.

There was even a little local touch on this year's Trench Safety Stand Down event as Pender’s own Bill Busch was the guest speaker and he talked about how to successfully navigate life’s turnovers.

Nothing is more important here at Penro than making sure all of our team members go home safe and healthy at the end of the day. It is our top priority and taking a day off every once in a while to show its importance is well worth it. We are fortunate to have a like minded group of contractors in our area and an association in NUCA that allows us to practice it together.

06/12/2026

We have made a lot of progress on our project in Pender this past week. Most notably, Whitney St from 6th St to Thurston Ave was poured Wednesday. There was a significant amount of water and storm sewer work that we had to do in the intersection of 6th and Whitney to update those systems and to prepare for future drainage improvements in that area of town. The village also took advantage of government funding available for lead water service and valve replacements while we had the street removed to avoid having to remove and replace paving in the future. Those additions added about a week to our work in that area, but it is all done and paved now.

Thurston St between the park and pool should be poured next week. We have done everything we can to minimize the closure of this heavily travelled street, and we will get it back open as quickly as possible.

Our crews have moved quickly installing sewer main. All sewer main is installed along Thurston Ave to Main St. We are down to 2 ½ blocks of sewer main left to install. We will move west down Main St to Carns St, then ½ block north on Carns St. Once we have that stretch done, we should have Whitney St open to traffic and we can move back to the intersection of Whitney and Norris Streets and replace one block of sewer main south to the intersection of Norris and Maple Streets. We skipped this stretch to allow access to St Marks Lutheran Church while Whitney St was closed.

You have probably also seen light blue trucks working around town. Those trucks are televising and cleaning sewer mains in preparation for the last phase of our project. Visu-Sewer out of Pewaukee, WI will be lining the majority of sewer mains in Pender. We will have more info on that process in the coming weeks.

In all, there will be very few sewer mains in town that haven’t either been replaced or rehabilitated by this project. The only ones that aren’t are those that are those that are the most recently installed. It is a major investment by our village to ensure we have a fully functioning sewer system for generations to come.

We should have the street portion of this project wrapped up by the end of July and the rehab work will likely carry into September. Thank you for your patience as we continue work around town.

06/10/2026

We managed to find some shade on this hot day! 😎☀