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A foundation of innovation, resourcefulness, and family

A foundation of innovation, resourcefulness, and family

PandJ - Our Story

Our Story

P&J’s founder, Ted Phillips, started his construction career as a teenager on a TVA clearing project in 1949. Three years later, he and his brother-in-law Ted Jordan came together to form Phillips & Jordan, Inc. and began laying the groundwork for decades of expansion. Our early construction efforts centered around clearing thousands of acres of land for the TVA throughout the Southeast, but throughout the 20th century we sought opportunities to build on that land clearing experience and break into new markets. 

Today, P&J continues to grow while holding on to our Smoky Mountain roots. Ted Phillips, Sr. passed in 2018, but his legacy continues. His wife Avis Phillips, who has supported P&J from the beginning and ran her own construction company Avisco from 1982-2017, has taken over as the Chairman of the Board, making P&J a woman-owned business. She has overseen internal changes restructuring us into a national enterprise, and with generations of P&J employees, both old and new, we continue to take on new challenges. 

Our History

2022
December 8

2022

PandJ - &0th Anniversary
P&J Celebrates it’s 70th Anniversary
2021
December 1

2021

2021
P&J finishes construction on our new office in San Antonio, FL; The North Fork Spillway and Embankment Improvement Project wins ASDSO National Rehabilitation Project of the Year Award
2019
December 1

2019

ENR Best Projects
Catawba Raw Water Reservoir Expansion Project wins ENR Southeast Best Water/Environment Project Award; Central Pasco County Beneficial Water Reuse Project wins Water/Environment Award of Merit; Power Delivery group celebrates 10 years
2018
November 22

2018

Avis Phillips
Our founder, Ted Phillips, Sr. passed in 2018, but his legacy continues. His wife Avis Phillips has taken over as the Chairman of the Board, making P&J a woman-owned business.
2017
December 1

2017

P&J establishes its Charleston, SC office
2016
December 1

2016

Avis Phillips becomes Chairman of the Board
2015
December 1

2015

P&J purchases all Avisco’s assets
2014
December 1

2014

Industrial & Commercial and Water Resources Groups formalized; P&J establishes its Austin, TX office
2013
December 1

2013

Patrick McMullen
Patrick McMullen becomes President of P&J
2011
December 1

2011

P&J creates and implements an in-house automated debris-management system for emergency response work
2009
December 1

2009

Akiachak Airport
The Power Delivery Group is formed; William “Teddy” Phillips, Jr. becomes CEO; Relocation of Akiachak Airport in Alaska
2005
December 1

2005

P&J establishes its Raleigh, NC, office
2002
December 1

2002

P&J’s 50th Anniversary; U.S. Army Corp of Engineers gives P&J Contractor of the Year Award
1986
January 22

1986

Regional Office was formed in Florida
1980
January 22

1980

PandJ - Corporate Office
Headquarters was established in Knoxville, Tennessee
1959
October 1

1959

Green River-Flaming Gorge Reservoir Clearing 1950s
The Flaming Gorge Reservoir took P&J out of the mountains of North Carolina and West to Wyoming. This 7,800-acre clearing project truly established us as a capable contractor and opened the door to larger bonding capacities in the future. 
January 22

1959

By 1959, P&J had proven to be resourceful and tenacious enough to begin expanding in earnest.
1952
January 22

1952

Ted Phillips and Ted Jordan founded P&J, and carried this pioneering spirit through the 20th century.
1949
January 22

1949

Seventeen-year-old Ted Phillips and his cousin Clyde had partnered on a $495 Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) land clearing job. They didn’t know it at the time, but this laid the groundwork for P&J.

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