S.D. Ireland Concrete Construction Corporation was founded in 1974 by Stuart D. Ireland at its present location of 100 Grove Street in Burlington, Vermont. Stu purchased the plant from the former owner who had retired his concrete business several years earlier. He saw the plant from above while on a flight into Burlington. He started his business with a fleet of two mixers, two dump trucks and a few pick-ups. He had been making concrete in a portable plant for his own residential building business wanted to sell to others.

     Today, S.D. Ireland Concrete Construction Corporation is one of the largest construction companys in the state. His sons, Scott and Stephen Ireland, worked alongside Stu after school every day, on weekends and summers right from the start. Stephen went on to recieve a degree in engineering and started managing field crews directly following college.Scott graduated from Bryant College with a degree in Business Management and while he had been involved with decision making for the company on weekends and summers during college, he starting managing the business full time after graduating.

     Scott Ireland began with an aggressive five year plan to build a new state of the art computerized batching facility. With goals set to grow the business by increasing both their fleet and the services offered by the Irelands to include commercial forming, the plan was successful and executed in less than the five years planned for the expansion.

     S.D. Ireland Concrete Construction Corporation continues to grow and expand their services to serve their communities building needs. Since Scott began managing the business, commercial and residental divisions of concrete forming and placement have grown. A new excavating division has been addedand pre-fabricated concretestructures are now being made on site. Scott has forseen changes in the marketplace and responded with new and innovative ideas which have kept the Ireland's at the forefront of building in Chittenden County and surrounding areas.