In the Beginning

By Joe Moore

I have been thinking about the beginning this week.

Before solar EPCs and data center projects and utility-scale sites disturbing thousands of acres. Before any of this was a company with two divisions and a national footprint, there was something else.

It started in homebuilding. My business partner DJ Moore and I were building homes under Moore & Moore and the silt fence we were installing kept failing. Continuously. We were not unique. Every builder dealing with Indiana soil and Indiana weather was fighting the same thing.

So we built something better. That first version of what became Siltworm was not a product launch. It was two guys on job sites who got tired of the same problem and decided to fix it.

Our first major erosion control client came directly from relationships I had built in the production homebuilder as a production homebuilder. It was in a world before much of this existed. The work was there because the trust was already there.

The residential and homebuilder work is still very much alive inside ECS | Erosion & Construction Services. Same type of clients, same type of sites. And, we have continued to build a much better operation around it. More services, tighter systems, a team that has genuinely seen it all on Indiana and Illinois subdivisions. That work never stopped being important to us. It is also what made everything else possible.

The years of getting residential ESC right, the compliance rhythms, the inspector relationships, the discipline of doing it correctly on every single site, gave us the credibility and the foundation to grow into commercial GCs, solar EPCs and Data Center projects that require a completely different level of capability and complexity. You have to earn the right to the harder work. We earned it here.

Some weeks send you back to the beginning. This has definitely been one of those weeks.

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