Concrete Cutting Contractor Goes Green to Grow

David Nevrotski spent 10 years working his way up the ladder of a concrete drill and saw company when he decided it was time to strike out on his own.

He started with one truck and a few clients. For the next 10 years, he ran Concrete Cutting Systems out of the basement of his family’s row house in northeast Philadelphia. His wife, Barbara, worked nights at her job with the IRS and raised their newborn son and 9-year-old daughter. David worked 20-hour days.

“It was a struggle,” Barbara recalls.

“Everybody that ever gave me advice in business, they said the first five years are the worst. You make five years, you're going to make it,” David recalls.

“That's not true. I feel it was 10.”

Twenty-seven years later, Concrete Cutting has 50 employees in Philadelphia and has opened a branch in Pittsburgh with an additional 15 employees. The company performs saw cutting and drilling for the major utilities in the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh areas and is one of the largest businesses of its kind on the East Coast. It performs wall sawing, core drilling, flat sawing, robotic demolition, as well as emission-free concrete cutting and slurry removal services.

As the company has grown with its customers, it has also advanced with the technology, transitioning to electric saws and demolition robots and establishing a fleet of vacuum trucks to tackle environmental cleanup. It also won Equipment World’s 2021 Safety Award.