Hansen Asphalt

Hansen Asphalt has paved and repaired asphalt in Eastern Iowa since 1978, more than four decades in the trade. Operating from Cedar Rapids, it covers Iowa City, Dubuque and the surrounding area, and divides its work across three distinct customer groups rather than treating them as one.

Commercial clients come to the company for parking lots and business surfaces, with the work framed around maintaining and protecting the value of a property. Residential work covers new driveway installation and resurfacing of drives that have aged. Municipal projects are handled as a separate line, taking in road construction and resurfacing, trail building, and paving the parking areas attached to city buildings — work the company notes carries complications that private jobs do not.

Beyond new surfaces, the company carries out crack filling and general pavement repair, which for many properties is the work that defers a full replacement. Preparation is given weight: grading is carried out ahead of laying asphalt, including on gravel lanes being converted to a paved surface, and the company treats that groundwork as what determines whether the finished drive holds up.

Safety standards and training are areas the business invests in, along with equipment, and it points to reducing environmental impact as part of how it reviews its own methods. Site cleanliness after a job is finished is another stated priority.

Quotes are free, and recent work is published on the company's site for anyone wanting to see finished projects before committing.