Colfax, North Carolina-based UMA Geotechnical Construction has set a high bar for growth. The company plans to build a new, 24,000-square-foot headquarters and President Brian DeSpain says revenue has doubled two years in a row. That’s not a surprise. When a company can manage projects of the scale UMA does, it attracts attention.
“We’re working on the I-26 widening project in Asheville,” DeSpain says. “It’s 120,000 square feet of soil nail walls. It’s the largest soil nail wall project the North Carolina Department of Transportation has ever done. This past year we finished a wall from the North Carolina Department of Transportation that was 46,000 square feet. … I would think, just from the size of some of the projects that we have going on currently, I think that people would be excited about that.”