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Chavez Concrete Pumping
Chavez Pumping was founded in 2017 by Mark Chavez in response to unreliable service providers. It started with a single 39m pump serving Chavez Concrete Contractors exclusively — but that quickly revealed local demand, leading to a new company built on its own values. A lighthearted conversation turned into the company's first contract, with Facebook (now Meta), not long after that first pump arrived. Chavez has been on the Meta project — as the only concrete pumping company on site — since 2017.
Facing high demand and volume, the company bet on itself and bought another pump — a new 46m. With Schwing America's support, the 46m arrived early, followed by a specialty 31m telescopic boom and a 52m pump. To address labor shortages, Chavez introduced a Telebelt TB130 — a leap of faith in New Mexico, where the technology was still unfamiliar. Hands-on demos and promotions built a strong presence in the local concrete community. The fleet grew again with a 58m and a compact 17m, giving clients flexibility on any site.
Chavez has secured major projects across New Mexico and beyond — the Meta build, the Spaceport 'SpinLaunch' project, and placements as far out as Louisiana, Oregon, and Washington. The company maintains strong relationships with top contractors and clients, including Amazon, for whom Chavez completed the largest Amazon facility on the western seaboard.
Today, the Dallas, Texas branch owns and operates six concrete pumps — including two brand-new 58m units — placing several thousand yards a week. Current Texas work includes a Google data center, another Amazon facility, and a data center project in Sweetwater, Texas.
Safety stays paramount: annual boom inspections, certified inspectors, and certified pump operators. That commitment to safety and to clients will keep driving the company's success.
Equipment
The demanding schedule and sheer volume of concrete pushed the company to buy another pump, a new 46m. Chavez can look back with pride and say it bet on itself. What it lacked in equipment at the time, it made up for with its ability to source equipment, its determination, and an old-fashioned 'my word is my word' standard.
Thanks to Schwing America's commitment, the 46m arrived ahead of schedule and ready on day one. Soon after, Chavez supplied the project with a specialty 31m, featuring the industry's only telescopic boom, and a 52m pump for those longer stretches.
In October 2018, the two-year-old company set out to solve the labor shortage everyone was facing. A Telebelt TB130 was a simple fix: it let contractors move dirt, mulch, and stone as well as concrete.
It was a leap of faith in New Mexico, which had never had a locally owned Telebelt — a daunting niche for Mark Chavez to build. Creative promotions, one-time demos, and word of mouth still left early doubt and plenty of nights second-guessing the purchase. Then its uses got more creative.
Those videos spread through the local concrete community, and Chavez quickly became a one-stop shop, placing concrete in the morning and base course in the afternoon with no second setup, cleanup, or move.
As the market called for more reach, Chavez added a 58m; as it called for tighter access, a compact 17m.
Today Chavez runs the most diverse fleet in New Mexico, from the compact 17m up to the 58m, giving customers the flexibility to match the right pump to any job.
Across both divisions, the company now operates [13] concrete pumps and belts."
Projects
Chavez holds contracts on some of New Mexico's largest projects and operates across Texas, Louisiana, Oregon, Arizona, and Washington.
New Mexico's widely publicized Facebook (Meta) project is what put Chavez on the map. Phase one is now complete after four years, and Chavez is proud to be contracted for phase two, a build expected to run for years to come.
'Project Chico,' Amazon's first distribution center in New Mexico, is another standout. At 2.6 million square feet, it's now the largest building in the state.
On two separate occasions, Chavez was called in to carry a demanding schedule. The first ran two pumps around the clock, 24 hours a day for six straight days, hour one through hour 144. The second spanned eight days and roughly 18,000 yards of concrete. Every placement ran through at least 500 feet of 5-inch hardline. The longest was a 1,100-foot hardline run placing 970 yards in a single pour. Chico's next-door neighbor, 'Project Nico,' a smaller hub of roughly one million square feet, was also placed by Chavez.
The once-secret, now widely publicized 'SpinLaunch' project near Spaceport America in southern New Mexico carried special demands as the first of its kind in the world. That revolutionary system is now successfully launching test payloads to the edge of space.
Chavez also maintains excellent relationships with New Mexico's largest general contractors and with state and federal organizations, including Los Alamos National Labs, Sandia National Labs, Netflix, Meta, Amazon, and FedEx. And never forgotten: the residential slab and the local DIY contractor, who get the same service and quality as anyone.
Safety
Chavez mandates a two-day annual shutdown for a self-imposed boom inspection on every concrete pump. Many can perform this service, but only five inspectors nationwide are factory-approved, certified boom inspectors the manufacturer will stand behind. Alongside this stringent annual service, Chavez requires every pump operator to study for and earn their ACPA (American Concrete Pumping Association) certification card after being hired. It's the industry's only recognized pump-specific safety certification for concrete pump operators. It isn't mandatory nationwide yet, but could well be within the next five years.
As Chavez Pumping moves forward, it's the rigorous, continued 'Safety First' and 'Contractor First' approach that will keep driving the company ahead.