TAPRAQ Rock
General Contractor
TAPRAQ Rock, based in Stebbins, AK, is a locally owned and operated general contractor offering services in Western Alaska and beyond.
LATEST PROJECTS
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Powering Alaska – Tapraq on the Road System
Tapraq employees display Western Alaska work ethic in Interior Alaska. Remote Alaskan communities have long relied on large diesel generators to power small, local electric grids. Burning vast quantities of diesel at prices as high as $9 to $15 per gallon or more, these generators roar along, belching exhaust 24 hours a day, except when
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Community-Based Home Construction: Solving Western Alaska’s Housing Crisis
Working in partnership with Stebbins IRA, local contractor Tapraq Rock is building a new subdivision and constructing homes, relieving the housing shortage that results in overcrowding of homes and residents moving out of the community. Subdivision construction is complete, and the building supplies arrived two weeks ago by barge. Work is being performed simultaneously on
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Boots on the Ground: Stebbins School Fire
What makes a contractor willing to dig deep and fight so hard for a community? It comes from being a part of the community.
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New Homes for 2023
Throughout last summer TAPRAQ Rock trucks rolled into Stebbins with loads of gravel while our skilled local operators in excavators, bulldozers and compactors built new roads and house pads. Laborers worked ahead of the operators, surveying and marking the roads and pads and spreading geofabric over the tundra. Meanwhile, far to the south, construction materials
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Stebbins Flood Recovery
In September of 2022, Typhoon Merbok transitioned into a Northern Pacific Storm and entered the Bering Sea with high winds and a storm surge, flooding coastal villages. Stebbins was inundated with seawater that flooded homes, destroyed property and village infrastructure, stripped insulation from houses, and left residents without heat going into winter. Areas of town
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