Comments on: Introducing: America’s 10 Biggest Highway Builders

By: Top 10 Largest U.S. Road Builders | Real Insight. Real Estate.

Top 10 Largest U.S. Road Builders | Real Insight. Real Estate. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:02:29 +0000

[...] a list of the 10 largest highway construction contractors in the U.S. The list is reproduced from The Infrastructurist, a blog that follows infrastructure development and transportation [...]

By: ConstructManiac

ConstructManiac — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:34:09 +0000

Forgot to add, there was also a billion dollar job in BC, Canada that Kiewit completed in 2007 in prep for the Olympics, I know this wouldn’t count towards “American” infrastructure, but that seems to put the Kiewit group at around $4 billion in road projects in 2007.

By: ConstructManiac

ConstructManiac — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:31:35 +0000

Kiewit, once coined the “colosuss of roads” has built more highway miles than any other contractor in the US. These figures don’t take into accout bridge building, which accounted for almost 2 billion dollars of Kiewits 2007 revenue…shouldnt highway bridge building be counted with highway building??

By: The Asphalt Blogger

The Asphalt Blogger — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:59:56 +0000

Great article! Keep up the great work!

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:11:28 +0000

Kind of old news but …Longmont, CO - Following the announcement on September 25, 2007 regarding the takeover of U.S. civil engineering company Flatiron Construction, the involved parties have now reached financial close. German-based construction services provider HOCHTIEF acquired Flatiron Construction Corp. from Dutch company Royal BAM Group today for $240 million.

By: white Dene

white Dene — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:27:02 +0000

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By: Eduardo Hernandez

Eduardo Hernandez — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:47:14 +0000

@ Mark
Check out the project profile on Lane’s page, http://www.laneconstruct.com/construction/projectprofiles.aspx .

By: Eduardo Hernandez

Eduardo Hernandez — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:41:40 +0000

@ Jeb
It’s 2008 rankings based on supplemental market revenue data from 2007.

By: Eduardo Hernandez

Eduardo Hernandez — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:39:55 +0000

@ General Schematic:
- Fluor derives the majority of its revenue from Oil & Gas operations. In the ENR Ranking used for this report, they come up in 21st place with revenues of $194.6 million, while Skanska USA is #17 with $236.3 million.
@ Skeptical:
- The source used was ENR’s Top US Contractor Ranking for the Transportation sector, and the subsector was Highways. We used the term “Builders” (or could have also used “Contractors”) to encapsulate activities which ultimately lead to highway creation, such as design, procurement, engineering, management, etc… For example, New Enterprise Stone & Lime mostly supplies materials for highways projects, while Jacobs mostly focuses on design and management as you well put… But they all come together to build highways.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:38:02 +0000

Mark,
Editorial snafu. Thanks for pointing it out.

-Jebediah

By: admin

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:32:23 +0000

Thanks for raising the question.

I’ll let Eduardo, the author, weigh in. But he tells me both Fluor and Skanska came in outside the top 10 — at least in this particular year. This is 2007 revenue, if memory servers — is that right, Eduardo?

-Jebediah

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:52:27 +0000

How can I-64 in NC be widened from 4 to 6 lanes if I-64 does not go to NC at all?

By: Skeptical

Skeptical — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:37:31 +0000

Sorry, but I think you’ve mixed apples with oranges. As a corraborating source, I’d recommend you check ENR. For example, Jacobs doesn’t “build” highways. They design / manage them.

By: General Schematic

General Schematic — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:10:21 +0000

Hmm, how about Fluor, who is building the HOT Lanes in Northern Virginia and Skanska who is building the I-95 interchanges between the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and the Mixing Bowl, also in Northern Virginia. I was surprised to not see their names on the list, but perhaps I have the criteria wrong.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:34:18 +0000

We at the Infrastructurist were pleasantly surprised over the weekend to see that the MoDOT has started following us on Twitter.

Certainly the winds in this country are blowing against auto centrism. And that’s a very good thing. The best way to speed these changes along is to have an intelligent and inclusive national conversation about the major issues we face in rethinking how the country is organized.

-Jebediah

By: john

john — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:00:33 +0000

No surprise here, “The New 64″ in St Louis, noting like witnessing auto-centrism gone wild. MoDOT: “Construction to rebuild… began in March 2007. All lanes… will remain closed until December 2009.”