Van-Smith Concrete Co

Van-Smith Concrete Co is a ready mix concrete supplier in Mt Pleasant, SC. The company delivers redi-mix concrete and supplies for residential and commercial projects throughout the Charleston area, with mixes that include high-strength and lightweight options as well as colored and stamped concrete. Its redi-mix concrete has gone into parking lots, basements, driveways, garages, hotels, boating docks, retail locations, highways, sporting facilities, hospitals and manufacturing plants. Van-Smith Concrete holds a rating of 4.90 based on 16 reviews.

The company traces its history to Van-Smith Company Inc., founded in 1914, with concrete operations beginning in 1941 from an original location on East Bay Street in Charleston, using two-yard Ransom mixers. It was the first company to serve the Lowcountry area and has taken part in most major construction projects during its years of operation. Central mix plants are located in Charleston, Goose Creek, Daniel Island, Jedburg and Hollywood, SC. Completed projects include a turntable for subsea high voltage cables for Nexans High Voltage USA, Inc., Dock #4 mooring dolphins for Kinder Morgan Shipyard River Terminal, an ISO container yard for bulk liquids at the HYDERA plant, and Capers Hall at The Citadel Military College of SC.

Jeff Coulter is a life-long Charlestonian with more than 45 years in the construction industry who joined Van-Smith Concrete in 1997. Van grew up in the business during the seventies, working summers from shoveling under the plant to batching trucks, graduated from Washington & Lee University in 1986, and founded Waterway Dock & Marine Co. before joining his father in the family business in 1994. He serves as vice-president of Van-Smith Concrete Co. and as President & CEO of its parent company, Van-Smith Company, Inc. Wilson brings more than 26 years of experience in the ready mixed concrete industry and is recognized by the American Concrete Institute as a Concrete Quality Technical Manager, Concrete Strength Testing Technician, Field Testing Technician - Grade I, Concrete Flatwork Technician, and an Adhesive Anchor Installer Examiner-of-Record.

The business sits on Long Point Road, about 0.2 miles from SeaCoast Community Center and 0.3 miles from both Mount Pleasant Fire Department Station 2 and the Richard L. Jones Center. Jimmy Seignious Memorial Fields is roughly 0.4 miles away, as is the Mark Clark Expressway.

Van-Smith Concrete is known for a solid reputation among the customers it has served, a standing built over more than a century of supplying redi-mix concrete to Charleston-area construction.