Exhibit 99.2



                             STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF
                           PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER
                        REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES
                        RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS


I, William E. Barton, Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of
Granite Construction Incorporated, state and attest that:

        (1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered
reports of Granite Construction Incorporated, and, except as corrected or
supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

           -   No covered report contained an untrue statement of a material
               fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in
               the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials,
               as of the date on which it was filed); and

           -   No covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to
               make the statements in the covered report, in light of the
               circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of
               the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a
               report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date
               on which it was filed).

        (2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's
audit committee.

        (3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

           -   Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001
               of Granite Construction Incorporated filed with the Commission on
               April 1, 2002;

           -   all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all
               definitive proxy materials of Granite Construction Incorporated
               filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form
               10-K identified above; and

           -   any amendments to any of the foregoing.




/s/ William E. Barton
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William E. Barton
Date:  August 13, 2002
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