About Skookum Asphalt
Skookum Asphalt is proud to have served Whitehorse and the Yukon Territory for over 30 years.
Our Services
We have a full line of road construction products and services for your project.
- Bituminous Surface Treatment/Chip Sealing
- Road grading
- Asphalt paving
- Earthmoving and surface civil works
- Deep and shallow underground utilities installation
- Warm-mix and hot-mix asphalt mix designs
- Custom crushing
- Aggregate and material hauling
- Project Management
Our Safety Culture is central to all our work. Nothing is ever more important than protecting our people, the community, and our environment.
Our Commitments
Our Commitment to Safety and the Environment
Goal Zero is our commitment to Safety and the Environment:
- Zero medical incidents
- Zero damage
- Zero spills or environmental incidents
Every step of every project has employees at all levels assessing risk and adhering to safe practices. This safety culture is the backbone of our business, and helps to guarantee that all workers go home safely at night. The guiding principles include:
- Maintaining a comprehensive health, safety, and welfare program that includes assigned responsibility for compliance
- Continuously identifying hazards in the workplace and either eliminating them or reducing the risk associated with them
- Reviewing all accidents and improving processes to ensure it doesn’t happen again
- Providing appropriate training and instruction
- Enforcing this policy equally among employees, contractors, and visitors
Our Commitment to Quality
Our Commitment to Quality runs deep throughout our organization, and touches on all aspects of our operations.
- Corporate leadership and focus on job quality performance metrics,
- Engineered asphalt and concrete mix designs
- Comprehensive training of our QC and operations staff,
- CCIL-accredited asphalt and concrete testing labs at our plants
- Quality Management Plans implemented on all projects
- Vertical integration on critical materials supply
- Intensive Quality Control testing during aggregate production
- Continuous Improvement (CI) and Best Practice programs implemented for operations excellence
We understand the value of Quality to our clients- and its importance to our reputation. Delivering On Time and In Spec for all of our clients and projects is the only way we do the job: the RIGHT way.
Our Commitment to the Community
Founded by local entrepreneur Curtis Prosko, Skookum Asphalt is proud to still be locally managed and based in Whitehorse. We are now part of the Terus Construction Ltd. group of companies, a BC based group of road construction and concrete operations.
We live and work in our community, and we believe in being active and giving back. We are proud sponsors of local community programs including the Association for Community Living, and the Yukon Hospital Foundation.
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