When Jason Edwards bought Arkansas Roofing Kompany, it was a respected, mainly residential contractor with a loyal following and a strong footprint in Conway — not yet the statewide commercial platform it would become.

That was by design.

Edwards had already spent more than a decade in construction, including time as a project manager at the company and two years running his own roofing firm. He knew the work, and he knew the gap: cities, counties, school districts, hospitals, and multi-building commercial owners rarely need a single-project fix. They need a partner who can coordinate an entire exterior envelope, respond when a storm hits at 2 a.m., and keep production moving across several sites without turning the owner into the general contractor.

From that first purchase, Edwards built EDWACO, short for Edwards Companies Group, a family of construction-focused firms that has become one of the fastest-growing commercial construction platforms in Arkansas. The group serves Arkansas and surrounding states as a full-envelope exterior contractor, with emergency mitigation and interior scopes as well. EDWACO invests in training and retaining its own crews rather than relying on a rotating list of subcontractors — a model the company says sets it apart.

“Tim had a good footprint in Conway, and I wanted to scale it to the whole state,” Edwards said.

The scale-up that followed wasn’t just more trucks. It was a deliberate stack of capabilities.

From One Shop to a Coordinated Group

EDWACO is the parent brand. Under it sit five operating companies, each with a defined specialty and its own leadership, reporting into a shared management structure:

Arkansas Roofing Kompany: A major sheet metal installer across the state, serving school systems, counties, and cities.

Fraley Roofing: A North Little Rock contractor with more than 40 years in the market, bringing commercial, industrial, multifamily, low-slope, and flat-membrane expertise, along with manufacturer certifications from GAF, Carlisle, Johns Manville, Versico, Kingspan, Mule-Hide, and IB Roof Systems.

Diamond State Restoration: A Conway fixture for nearly a decade, with a reputation across the state in roofing and construction. It also serves as EDWACO’s 24/7 emergency response arm.

Arkansas Skylights: Installs, replaces, and repairs commercial skylights and daylighting systems, including Velux products and Sun Tunnel units, coordinating roof and skylight work so the two aren’t treated as separate jobs.

WarHammer Metal: Supplies and fabricates metal roofing systems, building components, structural steel, trim, flashing, insulation, fasteners, and project-specific metalwork from an in-house shop, meaning custom metal no longer has to wait four to eight weeks in an outside fabricator’s queue.

EDWACO’s leadership blends Edwards’ original team with operators who came over with the acquired brands. Edwards is CEO, and Candace Turpin is CFO. Trevor Fraley leads Arkansas Roofing Kompany, Nick Nesterenko leads Fraley Roofing, Mario Ortiz leads Diamond State Restoration, Shaun Fraley leads Arkansas Skylights, and Steve Mohler leads WarHammer Metal.

One Partner, Every Solution

The group’s specialty isn’t a single product — it’s complex, multi-structure clients: the city with 60 roofs, the campus running phased construction, the health system that can’t shut down a wing, the commercial owner or general contractor who wants one schedule and one point of contact.

Those clients depend on management teams that can sequence crews around occupied buildings, weather windows, insurance timelines, and public-sector procurement rules. EDWACO points to centralized communication, faster response times, coordinated project management, and consistent quality as the advantages of its model — the areas that often break down when five vendors share one job site.

Edwards has been consistent about how that’s supposed to work. After taking over Arkansas Roofing Kompany, he told local press that the company’s first investment was in people, not slogans, and that profit follows when customer service stays high and details are watched closely. Inspectors are Haag-certified for storm work — a meaningful distinction in a hail-prone state, where an accurate read on a policy can matter as much as the shingle specification. Technicians are certified on the systems they install, and the company treats its safety policy as an operating rule rather than a poster on the shop wall.

Keeping that labor in-house makes it easier to enforce. Roofing, metal fabrication, skylights, mitigation, and a meaningful share of interior recovery work all sit inside the same organization, so an owner isn’t juggling five separate contracts and hoping the tarp crew talks to the membrane crew.

Editor’s note: This article is sponsored content, paid for by Arkansas Roofing Kompany. For more information, visit arkansasroofingkompany.com.