JH CONTRACTING LLC Jordan Holy builds his own full-service earthmoving firm with the help of a talented staff
Jordan Holy could have
gone one of two directions after graduating from Sam Houston State University with degrees in criminal justice and construction management. He chose the latter, combining the knowledge he gained in college with the years of in-field, hands-on experience he already had.
Holy eventually decided to form his own company and founded JH Contracting LLC about seven years ago in China Spring, Texas, which is a suburb of Waco. The early focus was “piddly stuff,” according to Holy.
to bigger earthwork and utility projects, as well as some concrete.”
While JH Contracting’s expertise is in excavation and utilities, the company now offers full site preparation packages that Jordan Holy, Brandon Powell, include everything from Owner/President Estimator/ clearing and stripping Project Manager to asphalt and concrete paving. JH Contracting “I started with a skid steer and a “Anything that had to do with coordinates all the preparations, welder,” he recalled. “Our primary dirt, I was involved with,” Holy so the site is ready to build on. scopes of work were clearing, small proclaimed. “First, it was farming, Subcontractors typically handle excavations, fence building, steel then helping my brother out with the paving, and JH Contracting erections for metal building, and his site preparation company as an self-performs most everything else, whatever else we could land, mainly operator, a laborer, or whatever I including hydroseeding and traffic in the residential market. After a few needed to be. After Sam Houston, control. In addition to residential and years, I started reaching out to some I came back to work for him as a commercial, the company is now in prior contacts I had. That got us into superintendent and ran two or three the municipal market doing road some commercial jobs, which led projects at a time.” construction and utility installation. An operator starts digging for a water line with a Komatsu PC210LC excavator.
JH Contracting has built a good reputation of being on time and on budget, so the company has a lot of repeat customers. Holy credits his staff of about 25 full-time employees for ensuring projects remain on schedule. They are working on multiple sites at any one time within an approximately 80- to 100-mile radius of China Spring. “We like to stay as local as possible, and if a project is close, we typically will look at it if it’s $200,000 or above,” said Holy. “The minimum climbs the further away the job is. Our maximum is up to about $7 million. That’s obviously a long way from when we started and were doing $10,000 jobs with the skid steer.” For its largest project to date, the JH Contracting team moved about 20,000 cubic yards of dirt, put down base rock, and installed nearly 1 mile of utility lines for a distribution center in Waco. JH Contracting also
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