Johnny Pilkey of Tellico Plains, a foreman with Harrison Construction Company, touches up fresh paving on the start of the 11-mile-long Loop Road in Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
March 31, 2010 | The Knoxville News Sentinel
Cades Cove Loop Road to Reopen Month Early
GATLINBURG - Cades Cove Loop Road will reopen about a month earlier than expected after a $6.7 million redo of the popular 11-mile route in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.The road was projected to be closed three months, beginning March 1, for major work, including a repaving of the loop. The April 24 reopening will feature a field day with only bicycles and pedestrians allowed on the road, which is used by an estimated 563,000 vehicles a year, until noon. On Sunday morning, April 25, the park and the Friends of the Smokies are planning a one-time-only "Cades Cove Loop Lope," which will offer pre-registered runners a choice of the full 11-mile loop or a 3.5 mile loop course. Read Mpre >>
Harrison Construction Company
Since 1947, the Harrison Construction Company has been providing East Tennessee and North Carolina Quality Hot Mix Asphalt Paving, Ready Mix Concrete, Site Grading and Road Construction. We offer Concrete Flatwork, Curb & Gutter, Storm Drainage, Aggregate Materials and Underground Utility Construction.
Committed to quality, service and safety, our integrated products and services enable us to build and manage site development projects from concept through construction. Harrison is strategically-located, offering turnkey site solutions from construction to concrete and asphalt, our comprehensive services include:Site grading operations and road excavation
Underground utility installation
Sidewalk, curb & gutter as well as storm drainage construction
Concrete flatwork and hot mix asphalt paving
Knoxville Asphalt Paving
Stone base construction
The Harrison Asphalt Division specializes in private, residential and commercial asphalt paving servicing eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. Our 20 asphalt facilities are ready to provide you with the very best in private and commercial paving. These hot-mix facilities produce a wide variety of different pavement mixes and types for highways, streets, driveways, parking lots and bicycle paths. Harrison Asphalt Division offers turnkey site development solutions, pavement rehabilitation and ready hot-mix paving to meet your needs.
Harrison Asphalt Division offers turnkey site development solutions and pavement rehabilitation to meet your needs. Contact our sales representatives at 865-546-3173.
The Harrison Concrete Division specializes in residential and commercial projects servicing Knoxville, Oak Ridge, Blount County and East Tennessee. Through the expertise and many years of concrete knowledge, our quality control department formulated a group of mixes specific to residential concrete construction. Harrison Easy Crete was first used in the Spring of 2011. The name says it all "Easy", Easy workability, Easy Finishablity. Ask any finisher and they will tell you, for concrete to be friendly it needs to finish easy and must be easy to work. Harrison Easy Crete incorporates a select blend of aggregates and state of the art chemicals to ease in the placement for a driveway, sidewalk or patio. This ready mix concrete is also useable with a 4" boom pump if necessary.
Also available is the Harrison Footer Mix, designed with the customer in mind to provide the appropriate strength both compressive and flexural. Unloading and finishing make this an ideal product for your next residential concrete footing project. Harrison has also designed the footer mix for hot and cold weather applications which often occur in East Tennessee concrete projects.
More and more builders and homeowners are moving away from the standard block walls and using a poured wall or ICF wall. The benefits are many and Harrison developed the Harrison Formed Wall Mix and Harrison Foam Wall Mixes. Designed to be used with a 4" boom truck, these innovative ready mix concrete products can be pumped and will provide a solid foundation for your residential or commercial basement construction.
Harrison owns and operates 12 concrete plants in East Tennessee to include Knoxville, Oak Ridge, TN and Blount County. Harrison provides ready mix concrete not only for residential purposes but for commercial, Tennessee Department of Transportation, and industrial construction sites.
At Harrison Concrete Company our pride is in our people who strive everyday to provide our customers with quality products and superior service that exceed your expectations. Harrison Concrete Company has the resources to deliver these products to your job when and where you need them.
For more information about these new products call The Harrison Concrete Division at 865.934.6500 and ask to speak to a sales representative.
