Earth mover

EHC Inc. didn't start out to become one of the largest earthwork and infrastructure companies in Southwest Florida, or a firm that state transportation officials would hire to complete a 32-mile expansion to Interstate 75 in Charlotte and Lee counties.

In 1990, Naples developer Grover Ericksen and Jeffrey Hunt formed Ericksen Hunt Construction to keep tabs on their construction jobs — and their general contractors.

“There was often nothing materially wrong with the work they were doing, but the truth was, we didn't know precisely what was happening on the construction sites,” says Hunt, 61, today one of four EHC owners.