Franklin Construction Inc

Franklin Construction, Inc. combines contracting with materials production from its office in Chico, California. The company holds California Class A general engineering license No. 567469 and is also licensed as a contractor in Nevada. It reports more than 45 years in business, and its date of incorporation is listed as November 21, 1988.

On the construction side, Franklin acts as a general contractor or a subcontractor on public and private projects. Its main scope is grading and earthmoving, demolition and clearing, and chip sealing as well as asphalt paving, and it also handles roadway excavation and sitework. Clients include public agencies at every level, from small-town governments up to federal and state bodies, along with schools, industrial and agricultural operations, commercial and private owners, and single-family and multifamily residential projects. Examples the company gives range from grading a homeowner's driveway and building out a retail big-box development to Caltrans highway work and chip sealing a national park road.

The materials division operates an asphalt plant, a recycling facility and three quarries that together supply Butte, Glenn, Tehama, Colusa, Yuba and Sutter counties. Products include fill dirt, crusher dust, rip rap, ballast rock, pea gravel, various sands, crushed rock, Class II baserock and recycled baserock, along with hot mix and cold mix asphalt. The company also accepts concrete and asphalt rubble for disposal. Its Deer Creek quarry, located in Vina about 20 miles from Chico, sells natural fines, crushed rock and baserock, and the Neal Road Asphalt & Aggregate Facility handles asphalt, recycled aggregate and baserock sales as well as debris disposal. Material quotes and submittals go through the aggregates manager, and buyers can set up a credit account.

Franklin lists memberships in the Associated General Contractors of California, Valley Contractors Exchange, the Chico Builders Association, Associated Builders & Contractors, and Accountability for Chico's Tomorrow.