The sixth annual lists of ABC Top Performers, included diverse businesses, from women-owned and service-disabled to disadvantaged business enterprises, veteran-owned, minority-owned businesses, large and small, as well as general contractors and specialty trade contractors.

The top ABC performer by work hours was Turner Industries Group, Louisiana.

Skanska Building, Tennessee, came in second, BL Harbert International, Alabama, came in third, followed by Brown & Root Industrial Services and Performance Contractors, both of Louisiana.

“These top contractors build the nation’s most enduring, innovative, high-quality construction projects, and their leadership teams and employees have thriving, growth-centric mindsets, strategic plans and goals,” said Michael Bellaman, president and CEO of ABC.

“Business growth is never an accident. It results from a combination of tangibles and intangibles – including a robust culture, innovative tools, a commitment to total human health and a pragmatic appetite for risk.”

2024 ABC Top Performers list

Among contractors rated by type of work, the honours were awarded as follows:

• Top general contractor: Turner Industries Group
• Top trade contractor: MMR Constructors, Louisiana
• Top electrical contractor: MMR Constructors
• Top plumbing/HVAC contractor: TDIndustries, Texas
• Top specialty contractor: Lithko Contracting, Ohio
• Top special designations contractor: Crossland Construction, Kansas

The top contractors by market sector were:

• Airport: Hensel Phelps, Colorado
• Education: Skanska Building
• Entertainment: W. G. Yates & Sons Construction, Mississippi
• Government: BL Harbert International
• Health Care: Skanska Building
• High Tech: M.C. Dean, Virginia
• Hospitality: Skanska Building
• Industrial: Turner Industries Group
• Infrastructure: Black Construction., Guam
• Military: M.C. Dean
• Mixed Use: Skanska Building
• Museums/Monuments/Parks: MAREK, Texas
• Office: Bergelectric, California
• Parking: Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing, Texas
• Religious: Haskell, Florida
• Residential: Power Design, Florida
• Retail: Sevan Multi-Site Solutions, Illinois
• Sports Complex: Brasfield & Gorrie, Alabama

To qualify, ABC’s Top Performers must achieve ‘gold’ status or higher in ABC’s STEP Safety Management System, which helps the best-performing contractors achieve incident rates nearly seven times safer than the US Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average, according to ABC’s Safety Performance Report.

View the 2024 Top Performers lists here.

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