Give Us The Dirt

When you want someone to succeed, you wish them Luck. But it’s taken more than luck to grow a thriving aggregates business and keep leadership in the family for nearly 100 years. Luck Companies has done that, and it takes a lot of planning! You may know Luck Companies for its most high-profile brand, Luck Stone. The quarry and aggregates company was launched in 1923 in Virginia by Charles Luck Jun...

If you build it, they will come. But before you can build it, you need to clear it, grade it, add drainage, and even pave it. There are few companies who have done that as long and as well in South Carolina as CR Jackson Contractors. What started as a landscaping company in 1972 is close to celebrating its 50th anniversary as a much larger company that can perform a lot more than landscaping. CR J...

Whether it’s commercial buildings, renovations, medical offices, or apartments, there’s one company that can handle it all. Concorde Construction – of Charlotte – is that company building clean, modern offices in Berewick and Ayrsley, adaptive reuse from The Plaza to Rozzelle’s Ferry, and Urban Mixed-Use from South End to Rock Hill. David Privitera has led Concorde Construction for the last 16 of...

The building business is booming, and to keep up, you need a lot of concrete and sand and brick. Stevenson-Weir / Southern is a family business that’s expanded over the last 70 years to match the growth in the region — and now includes plants in 6 local cities. And as the business grew, so did the family! The oil company started by Grandma and Grandpa Weir in 1948 is now on its 3rd generation of f...

You may have known the name BB&T as a tower in Winston-Salem, a ballpark in Charlotte, or a bank on the corner in your neighborhood. It has been a couple of years since the former community bank merged with SunTrust bank, to become what is now known as Truist. The name now adorns the Charlotte Knights’ home stadium, as well as a central tower in uptown Charlotte. But in an era of bank consolid...

If you look up our next guest’s background, it’s tough to decide what jumps out at you first — that he was a Marine Corps Captain for 10 years, that he has an MBA from the highly-respected Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill, or that he was the Leprechaun mascot at Notre Dame his Senior year in college. That’s all a lot to take in — but the reason he’s HERE on the Give Us the Dirt Pod...

Our next guest on the Give Us the Dirt Podcast is one of our own here at Hoopaugh Grading Company. Grayson Glover is the Vice President of Construction with HGC, which is as cool as it sounds. Grayson is a Charlotte native, who graduated from Providence High School and East Carolina University, joining our team […]

In all businesses and on every team, each person brings something unique to the table — a different set of skills, a special way of looking at things or a prior experience to provide new insights and creative solutions. That’s why every industry needs a diverse workforce. Yet, in the construction industry, we still see […]

There’s just nothing like a brick exterior. Sure, we love stucco, wood paneling, and cedar shake — but nothing says “solid” like brick. Saying someone is a “brick house” and “follow the yellow brick road” are part of popular culture. And if you’ve ever pulled up close and looked at how each brick has been […]

Construction is big business, and it takes a lot of planning, executing and relationship-building to make it all happen. Our next guest on Give Us the Dirt Podcast has had a hand in every part of the process since the mid-80’s, and he’s not slowing down. Alan Cahill is the President and CEO of Blythe […]

We have a lot of guests on our podcast who found their way into the construction industry because they like working with their hands, grew up around equipment, or had a summer job that inspired a career. For the first time, we are excited to have with us a guest that got started in the […]

Since 1926, CTE has served the equipment needs of the Southeast by offering a full line of products and support to it’s customers. For more than 90 years, CTE has remained dedicated to being a trusted partner while testing the boundaries as a trailblazing organization. We are excited to have Mike Tropsha, Vice President and […]

There’s an old saying: “You can’t get there from here”… and in the construction and site-development industry, you certainly can’t get anywhere without the right transportation. Job sites rely on the steady and dependable flow of materials and equipment and expect them to be delivered on time and on budget. In Charlotte, almost every large […]

If it’s been a few years since you caught up with Martin Marietta, it’s no longer the aerospace company that developed Titan rockets and the Walt Disney World Monorail. 25 years and a couple of mergers and acquisitions later, it’s Martin Marietta materials, supplier of building materials around the world including here in Charlotte. Martin […]

  Before the first brick or timber can be set, before the first water or electrical line can be put in the ground, before anything can be built — the ground has to be prepared. Hoopaugh Grading Company has been the go-to company for site prep, surveying, and pre-construction needs for the commercial building industry […]

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