ABOUT US

Performance, Integrity, Commitment
Harkins Contracting, Inc. is an award-winning full-service general contracting firm offering a complete range of construction services for commercial, public and residential projects. Serving the entire Delmarva Peninsula, including Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, it is one of the oldest and most trusted contractors in its service area. Though the Harkins reputation for integrity and aggressive scheduling was initially established through Harkins Concrete Constructon, Inc., Harkins Contracting has extended it into construction management, a greater variety of construction types and an expanded service area.
Exceeding Expectations
Customers in this area know the Harkins name is synonymous with exacting standards, an aggressive work schedule, and lean budgeting. Like its customers, Harkins demands efficiency and excellent execution. Safety for workers and those who will ultimately occupy the structures is a top priority, as is meeting deadlines.
The Best Subcontractors
Working in the tri-state area for more than a quarter century, Harkins knows which subcontractors share its values and those are the ones hired to work on your project. Utilizing our sister company, Harkins Ready Mix, Inc., for concrete gives us unique control over quality and delivery of the primary building material. The choice of subcontractors is based on a company's suitability for your job, price and track record. Harkins subcontracting company, Harkins Concrete Construction, Inc. stands ready as a backup to ensure on-time completion.
The Fine Print
As the manager of your project, our responsibilities are spelled out in Harkins' clear, fair, and comprehensive agreements. Our contracts protect and make guarantees that address every section of the project. In more than two decades of operation, HCI has never been sued.
Our Team
Integrity, Quality, Commitment & Customer Service
As a privately-owned company, Harkins values represent deeply held beliefs about what is best for customers, employees, and the community. No business can survive without trust from its stakeholders, so honesty is our most fundamental value. Everything else follows from that.
Harkins hard-earned reputation for competitive pricing and aggressive scheduling are challenged with every job it takes on. The fact that 70 percent of its work is repeat business and most of our new business comes from referrals testifies to Harkins success in satisfying customers.
Efficient workplace practices executed daily by experienced workmen and their onsite managers ensure Harkins meets and exceeds quality and timeline goals. Its own subcontracting firm can back up or supplement a third-party subcontractor if unforeseen circumstances arise. Its ready-mix plant in Pittsville protects Harkins’ customers from delivery delays or quality issues with your concrete.
At Harkins we strive for...
- Unsurpassed Integrity, earned through tens of thousands of satisfactory transactions, and growth from repeat business and referrals.
- Quality products and workmanship, implicit in our products and the standards we set for employees and specialists.
- Commitment to our word, illustrated in meeting deadlines, arriving on time, and delivering the quality work we promise.
- Superior Customer Service
is awfully important to us, but that’s not so much a core value as just our way of saying thank you for your trust.
Maintaining your trust is the foundation of all we do.
Our History
HCI was formed in 1997 by George Harkins and his son David, following the success of its sister company, Harkins Concrete Construction, Inc. a subcontractor specializing in design-build, post-tensioned concrete frames and medium to large flatwork. The impetus for HCI was encouragement from key architects and repeat customers of Harkins Concrete Construction, Inc to extend the company's management techniques, organizational skills, and urgent pace into the expanded role of general contractor.
Already familiar with the workforce available in the greater Salisbury area and equipped with a lifetime of managing concrete construction projects, the pair agreed they were ideally positioned to expand. The region appeared poised for a building boom and it made sense to expand their services into general contracting. Unlike Concrete Construction, Inc., however, a general contractor requires not only access to skilled craftsmen but an experienced administrative staff with different skillsets.
Fortunately, George Harkins’ five years of subcontracting had familiarized him with the best specialists and regional contacts in the business. The company’s success and reputation made it an attractive place to work so attracting talent even from the region's small pool was not a problem. Today, HCI is staffed by degreed experts with an average of 25 years’ experience in the construction industry. Their expertise includes subcontractor selection, negotiating, insurance coverage, accounting, safety, concrete framing, finishes, bonding, scheduling, state and federal regulations, inspections, and other jobs that fall to the general contractor.
In addition to identifying projects for which they are best suited, and lining up the perfect subcontractors to get it done, it is this crew that is responsible for the detailed reporting promised to owners by Harkins Contracting. All projects get a schedule update every three weeks; reports on progress, manpower, and weather are completed daily. Reports to owners go out Friday afternoon. They contain photos describing progress and work scheduled for the following week. This is the kind of detail and transparency Harkins’ customers have come to expect and one reason they keep coming back.