Building Today For A
Sustainable Tomorrow
At Iron Woman, we pride ourselves on building communities, not just infrastructure. Our work, with attention to safety and quality, makes it possible for families to travel safely to and from work every day and to have open spaces and beautiful communities to enjoy.
Who We Are
Iron Woman embraces complexity. Our value comes from the complex problem-solving power of combining each of our divisions and services to provide whole solutions. From our trucking roots, we’ve diversified into builders with a focus on water infrastructure, environmental, mining, and logistics. Our sustainable infrastructure solutions solve increasingly complex problems.
What We Do
Iron Woman serves a variety of markets. As a diversified general contractor with multiple service lines, we serve a variety of markets including water, municipal, federal, residential, energy, mining, and transportation.
Work at Iron Woman
Iron Woman is proud of the people-first workplace it has built. Are you ready to be part of something big, with momentum and opportunities? Iron Woman is one of the most prominent self-performing civil and environmental general contractors along the Front Range and throughout the Western United States. And we’re always growing.
Spring Valley Ranch, Elizabeth, CO
Residential site development tends to be a mostly straightforward endeavor – clearing, grading, excavation, and installation of utilities. That is, unless your property sits on the Palmer Divide, a natural barrier east of Parker, Colorado, that separates the Arkansas and Platte River basins. The Palmer Divide causes “upslope” flow in the winter, creating higher snow totals, and in the summer helps form the “Denver Cyclone”, a counterclockwise wind pattern that can cause severe thunderstorms.
To manage the site’s excessive precipitation, the project required a unique strategy to protect the nearby receiving waters. Iron Woman worked closely with the design engineers, 2N Civil, to install the 17 drop structures to slowly dissipate the water energy before draining into a series of two ponds that act as a buffer.
The first pond captures runoff and slowly discharges it into the second pond, which receives and treats the flow to remove sediment before releasing it into a nearby waterway.
Project Challenges
Constructing the drop structures was challenging due to the site’s unique hydrology. The volume of water, its movement across the site, and the ultimate water quality goals required some uncommon solutions. Iron Woman crews had to make a number of field adjustments during construction to achieve the flow and treatment objectives established by the client.
Another challenge involved coordinating with other subcontractors performing overlot grading for future phases of the project. Weekly communication and daily coordination helped keep everything on track. The project is currently on schedule and on budget.
