After strong results in 2023, the main contractors of the Enr Texas I of South Region -east they maintained their high pace, and reported another year of flag in 2024. The 25 best companies slightly marked with revenue of $ 77.4 billion combined in 2024, up to $ 75.64 billion in 2023. However, larger companies excelled last year. The first 10 companies that also responded to last year’s survey reported higher revenue this year, some for high percentages. These nine companies reported $ 38.5 billion combined last year, 18.6% more than in 2023. Kiewit did not respond to the survey last year.
This year’s list combines the ancient region of Texas and Louisiana – Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas, and our former South South Region – East – Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Puerto Rico. (Both areas remain as subregions.) The 100 best companies in our list reached combined revenue of $ 125.1 billion by 2024.
Brasfield and Gorrie, who surpassed the list of most important southern contractors -last year, is now on the combined list of Enr Texas & Southeest. Their revenue reached $ 6.18 billion in the region by 2024, 8.8% more than by 2023. Although the company gains the vast majority of its revenue in the south -saw that Texas & Louisiana increased from $ 686.16 million by $ 2023 to $ 829.27 million, an increase of 20.9%.
Rob Block, CEO of Brasfield and Gorrie, attributes the company’s performance to the force of various sectors of the market. “Infrastructure, especially water, power and data, are boom and we have increased our capabilities to meet this demand,” he says. “Advanced manufacturing and mission facilities, such as data centers, grow rapidly and have been fortunate enough to play a role in some major projects, including a large Dallas data center campus.”
Geographically, the company reports the growth of cities such as Miami and Dallas and the “strong and steady performance” in areas where the firm is well established as Atlanta, Charlotte and Nashville. “We have been intentional to expand our experience of the sector within our existing footprint and this strategy is bearing fruit,” he says.
Various portfolio vs. Specialization
Turner Construction took advantage of its diverse portfolio for impressive results by 2024. The company recorded $ 3.79 billion in the Texas & South South Region -East, up to 18.9% in 2023. The company offered health care work, sports precincts, advanced manufacturing plants and hypersaletic data centers. “This width allowed us to keep us agile and resistant in the midst of economic conditions and regional priorities,” says Paul Lawson, vice president and general director of Turner.
While Turner had his diversity in 2024, Robins and Morton focused on health care. With 82% of its revenue obtained in this sector, the firm reported $ 2.36 billion in the region: 31.9% of jump in 2023. Derek Gregg, Robins & Morton operations executive vice president, says that the company extended its customer base while obtaining larger projects from existing customers throughout the region. In Texas, he works at Terrell State Hospital of $ 573 million. In Florida, it is completing Uhealth Solé Mia Medical Center in northern Miami, which will be the largest outpatient installation of the University of Miami’s health system so far. The company recently received a surgical expansion and the $ 670 million surgical tower at the Hollywood Regional Memorial Hospital, FLA.
“The challenge is to keep it disciplined, to say” no “when we are in capacity.”
—EB Black, CEO, Brasfield and Gorrie
Gregg states that his success was strengthened by expansion in autonomous work, as well as mechanical, electric and plumbing management. “As the complexity of our projects has increased … Internal experience has improved our ability to support all the phases of the project more effectively,” he says, adding that it also allows the company to better manage market conditions, such as labor shortage.
For many of the greatest contractors, the work of the critical data center of the mission has been an important taxpayer to its financial results. For Hitt, data centers have helped to promote the list of main contractors in the region. One year ago, Hitt took 33 in the South Region -in 46 in the Texas & Louisiana region based on the revenue of 2023. In 2024, their revenue was almost tripled to the south -and they almost doubled through Texas and Louisiana, by submitting the company to 14th on the list of TEXAS I SOUTH CONTRACTISTS -East.
Evan Antonides, Hitt’s co -president, says that data centers were a great contributor to their results, emphasizing that they also helped increase the average size of the project. The company also gained strength in healthcare, hospitality and industrial sectors. “Much of our success is to grow with our customers, entering new markets next to and providing quality and consistent results,” he says.
As the project sizes increased, he says that one of the company’s main challenges was to ensure alignment with commercial partners, especially around the extent of clarity, crew leadership and resource preparation. “We have put a greater emphasis on helping the established and emerging shops to create the capacity to execute -at the highest level,” he says.
With Vista, Antonides says that the company follows new opportunities in energy, advanced manufacturing and other sectors related to the reinvestment of the domestic supply chain.
Universally, the main contractors consider labor shortages as the main challenge, often struggling to find sufficient talent in the field and their offices. “The challenge is to keep it disciplined, saying” no “when we are in capacity, as we continue to build our workforce,” says BLALOCK.
Greg Lorei, president of the central region of southern Je Dunn Construction, says the company has become “deeply rooted in the development of labor force” in its offices. “We encourage customers to relate to a general contractor as soon as possible to help ensure that the objectives, budget and project of the project can be achieved,” he says. “Je Dunn also uses the experience of our internal economist and 400 more people of hiring and pre-construction to make sure that we provide customers with the most reliable and updated advice in the midst of these volatile economic times.”
Gregg of Robins and Morton adds that contractors also continue to affect the disruptions of the chain of supply of persistent materials, the decrease in the increasingly complex costs and projects. “Although we are attentive to the challenges of the ongoing industry, our proactive planning, regional experience and commitment to collaboration will help us to browse these heads,” he says.
