K2 Construction currently employs more than 90 individuals and continues to grow each year. We believe in a family environment for our employees and take pride in cultivating personal relationships with everyone on our team. This comes through in our customer interactions and many of our returning customers will ask for our foreman by name. We believe in this personable approach from the construction site employee to the owner of the company and our clients interact at all levels of K2 Construction’s management.
K2 Management Team:
Tom Rogge, Manager
Tom has been in the underground utility industry since graduating high school in 1988 when he was hired by Rogge Engineering. From 1988 through 1992 Tom attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and worked full time, moving up through the ranks from laborer to construction supervisor. In 1998 Tom changed companies to become a construction supervisor for a large underground utility company in Lincoln. While there, Tom was in charge of projects ranging in size from $100,000 to $4 million. Tom joined K2 Construction in 2002 and has been a managing partner ever since.
Travis Sondgeroth, Manager
Travis graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. In 1995 Travis was commissioned into the Regular Army and Branched Engineer. While in the Army, he served at Fort Lewis, WA with the 14th Combat Engineer Battalion and served as; line platoon leader, support platoon leader, executive officer and battalion intelligence officer. In 1999 Travis moved to Lincoln, NE and took a position as a business development manager for a local underground utility company. In 2000 Travis began working as a contractor for a wireless telecommunication carrier. While there, he was involved in the design and construction of wireless sites. In 2002 K2 Construction was formed and Travis came on board as a managing partner.
Mike Wolf, Superintendent
Mike Wolf relocated from Houston, Texas to Lincoln, Nebraska because of his passion to stay committed to the geothermal heat pump industry. Mike has been constructing the vertical closed loop earth heat exchangers for the last 10 years. He has completed over 30 separate multimillion dollar commercial projects which included drilling, looping, and grouting a total of over 1.5 million vertical feet of HDPE pipe. He has also supervised the horizontal completion of the miles and miles of complex horizontal piping and valving of these systems from the borefield to the building.
Casey Thompson, Project Manager
Casey manages Major Projects and the Bridge Division. His degree is in Construction Management from UNL. Casey experience in Concrete Paving, Asphalt Paving, Earthwork, Utilities, Bridges, Box Culverts, Waste Water Treatment, and Landscaping. He has worked on projects for Private Entities, Counties, Cities, States, Airports, Corp of Engineers, NRD, and Rail Road. He has worked in the construction industry for approximately 24 years. Companies worked for include: Adams Construction, Kiewit, Walters Morgan, Castle Rock Construction, TCW, CCI, KEA, Nemaha Landscaping and K2
Tom Flannigan, HDD Supervisor
Tom Started drilling in 1999 as a laborer moved up to operator than foreman. Since then have overseen multiple projects in communication, power some gas. For the last few years been doing water sewer and fiber builds. Capable of setting up jobs start to finish from pulling multiple duct packs to on grade sewers in addition water main all the way up to 16 in or better.
1999-2005 spalj construction Deerwood Minnesota 2005-2010 mlaskoch excavating 2010-2015 Mp next level 2015-2016 telcom const. 2016-present K2 const. long list of customers includes Windstream, Centurylink,Nebraskalink,Allo and City of Lincoln the list goes on I have completed infrastructure jobs in multiple states some include Minnesota,Iowa,Wisconsin,both the Dakotas,Nebraska,Texas,Louisiana,Mississippi,Florida and the list goes on.