How We Started
In the 1960's ownership of the company passed from the Timmons family to the Head family. Middleton E. (Ed) Head, Jr. was joined in ownership by his son James M. (Jim) Head in 1984 and the name was changed to Head, Inc. Continuously based in Columbus, Ohio, Head, Inc moved into its current headquarters building at 4477 East Fifth Avenue in the summer of 2004.
The Early Years
Since its inception, Head Inc. has been involved in public works projects. Our work experience includes projects for the Department of Energy, Air Force, US Army Corps of Engineers, Navy, National Guard, and various municipalities as well as private industry. In our early history, we were primarily building contractors doing a variety of standard and specialty structures in Ohio.
In 1984, Jim Head led the company in a new direction by contracting to build an aircraft test facility at Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station in North Carolina, our first project outside the state of Ohio. Since that time, nearly all our projects have been outside of Ohio concentrating on airfields across the country.
Shifting Our Focus
The other shift of our business plan began in 1986 when we did our first concrete paving project on an airfield. After a mix of building and paving projects in the late eighties and early nineties, we are now solely focused on concrete and asphalt paving on airfields. We produce and place both concrete and asphalt on-site with our own forces. Our expertise has led to us being a preferred paving contractor for the military, and we have even been named by the Navy as their Southern Division Contractor of the Year.