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Brasfield & Gorrie’s 12th & Juniper development in Midtown Atlanta features twin residential towers totaling more than 1 million square feet, reshaping the skyline near Piedmont Park.
Brasfield & Gorrie is ENR’s 2026 Contractor of the Year for the Southeast region, which includes Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Florida. The Birmingham, Ala.-based contractor posted a record $7.7 billion in companywide revenue by 2025, largely driven by an internal joint venture model that paired teams to do work that no office could land on its own.
That approach helped lead to wins, including a $310 million water reclamation facility in Nashville and a $505 million federal design project in Huntsville, Alabama. Mission-critical work took up much of the year, with the company surpassing $2 billion in data center and hyperscale campus projects.
Not only did the company grow its backlog, it reshaped the way it operated. 2025 marked the first full year for Brasfield & Gorrie’s market leadership teams, targeting dedicated healthcare, commercial, mission critical, industrial, government, heavy civil and self-performance clients, coordinating strategy across regional lines. Its AI platform, Magnus 2.5, saw more than 70,000 interactions in its first two months, with wider rollout still to come.
Leadership also evolved. Rob Blalock took over as CEO in 2025, a year in which the company maintained safety metrics despite rapid growth. Brasfield & Gorrie posted an experience modification rate of 0.50 on over 220 active jobs. It also increased its profit-sharing premium by 50%, promoted a record number of employees and grew its professional workforce by 8%.
Today, the contractor operates 13 offices in the Southeast, from Texas to the Gulf Coast and Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Florida. It reported 631 active projects worth $29.4 billion in 2025 and forecasts revenue of $9.2 billion by 2026.
A complete profile of Brasfield & Gorrie’s winning year will appear in the Aug. 10 issue of ENR Texas & Southeast.
