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Concrete is such an integral part of the construction industry that sometimes it’s easy to take it for granted. But contractors can run into huge delays if they don’t have a reliable concrete source, and a situation that holds up concrete delivery en-masse can even tank construction deadlines across even whole states Having a trusted concrete provider is a must.
These concrete contractors have been maintaining their work over the past few years amidst the difficulty of the pandemic and other geopolitical issues, and many of them took massive steps forward as they made their way higher on Engineering News Report’s 2021 rankings of specialty contractors. Let’s take a look at the top 10 largest concrete contractors in 2022.
Baker Construction Enterprises is a general contractor with a significant cross-country reach, with 11 affiliate companies and numerous locations across the United States.
The group’s main concrete affiliate, Baker Concrete Construction, has a similar spread, with 16 locations and regional headquarters in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, and Texas.
With experience in civil, commercial, multi-family, industrial, institutional, and mission-critical projects, the company has a varied and extensive background in construction, preconstruction, and project management.
The company’s varied background has led to some extremely high-profile work that has kept them in the top spot on ENR’s ranking. Some of Baker Concrete’s major projects include:
The company has a mixed payment reputation based on data from the last year, earning a C Levelset payment score with 55 points out of 100. Reviews from other contractors were in a similar range, with Baker Concrete receiving a 3.7-star rating out of 5 stars from anonymous reviewers.
Lithko Contracting is a concrete contractor based in West Chester, Ohio. The company has a wide range of experience, with a background working on projects in the education, retail, manufacturing, residential, and hospitality sectors among others.
The company has a unique approach, as well, with company details marketing its “close-to-home strategy”: 22 semi-autonomous branches across the country which aim to blend the support of a major national company with the focus of local offices.
Lithko has been steadily working at a high level, staying at the second spot on ENR’s Top Concrete Contractor list for the past four years. Some of the company’s recent major projects include:
Largo Concrete is a Los Angeles-based concrete contractor that specializes in multi-level, cast-in-place structures. Citing its ability to “self-perform the entire scope of work” on a project, the company offers services in formwork, pumping, place & finish, architectural concrete, and shotcrete among others.
The company has experience in a number of industries, putting together structures for projects in sectors such as commercial, education, energy, entertainment, health care, and hospitality. It mainly has a reach in the western part of the United States, with 10 regional offices in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Texas accompanying its Tustin, CA headquarters.
Largo Concrete has an average history of payments in the 12 months. The company earned a C payment score from Levelset, receiving 61 points out of 100 possible related to 174 projects worked in the past year.
Some of the company’s major projects include:
Structural Group Inc. is a group of contractors with a focus on the commercial, public, transportation, water, industrial, and power sectors.
Structural Group claims to be the “largest concrete repair and maintenance provider in the United States,” with its business focus laying mostly on infrastructure repair and maintenance. Additionally, the company works in new construction and product design.
The company has an international reach, with three offices in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar alongside 23 in the United States. Structural Group has a fairly positive history with payment in the last 12 months, too. It received a B payment score from Levelset, with 81 points out of 100 possible.
Some of the group’s largest recent projects include:
Suntec Concrete calls itself the largest commercial concrete construction company in the Southwest, with locations in Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. With 1,800 employees, the company specializes in structural, tilt panel, flatwork, foundation, concrete placement, and finishing, working as a developer and contractor.
Suntec Concrete has an excellent payment history, earning an A payment score from Levelset with a 95 out of 100. In fact, in 293 projects monitored over the past 12 months, there are no reported payment issues, which was true as well for the entire duration of 2021.
Some of the company’s recent projects include:
BrandSafway is a Georgia-based general contractor with a large range of expertise in the construction industry. Alongside its work in scaffolding and industrial services, the company has expertise in concrete forming and shoring solutions, offering wall formwork and slab formwork as well as shoring solutions to climbing and bridge formwork.
Beyond its wide level of expertise, the company has a huge reach. BrandSafway has 277 locations worldwide, with offices in Asia, North America, South America, and Europe. The company even has 139 locations in the United States alone.
The company generally has a decent history when it comes to payment, earning a C payment score from Levelset with a 67 out of 100.
BrandSafway has worked extensively in oil and gas, power generation, civil engineering and infrastructure, and commercial construction. Some of BrandSafway’s recent projects in concrete include:
Texas-based Keystone Concrete is a concrete contractor that works in the commercial, industrial, and residential sectors. The company offers services in concrete placement, structural concrete, landscaping, residential formwork, and sitework.
With 1,500 employees and offices in Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, the company has significant capabilities but maintains a close focus on Texas and the Southwest U.S.
The company has an average payment score, earning a 72 out of 100 for a C payment score from Levelset. However, they’ve ended up with a decent reputation from those who’ve worked with them recently, with one contractor calling them “Great to work with.”
Some of the company’s recent major projects include:
Calling itself a “strategic, collaborative design-assist structural concrete contractor,” CECO Construction offers a number of services both in preconstruction and construction. The company has expertise in a number of different delivery methods, such as design-build, design-bid-build, CM multi-prime, integrated project delivery, and lean construction.
The company has a large national reach, with 19 office locations spread throughout each major geographical region in the U.S., and working on more than 200 projects per year.
CECO Construction also has a very good history with its recent payment habits, earning an 85 out of 100 and an A as part of its Levelset payment score.
Some of CECO Construction’s major projects include:
Kent Companies is a concrete contractor with offices in Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. The company has a large scope, with experience in construction, pumping, sitework, building restoration, deep foundation work, facilities service, underlayment, flooring, and specialty services.
Its portfolio is similarly wide-ranging, with work done in the commercial, multi-family, industrial, retail, education, municipal, piering, and specialty sectors. Some of the company’s most recent projects include:
TAS Commercial Concrete is a Texas-based contractor that markets itself as “one of the top concrete service providers throughout many of the major metropolitan areas of Texas, including Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio.”
The company emphasizes its significant manpower, claiming that it is able to handle “3.1 million man-hours of concrete work” per year, and has worked a significant portfolio in the multi-family housing, industrial, retail, education, religious, and healthcare sectors.
According to Levelset data, TAS Commercial does have a poor recent history with payment. They received a D payment score, earning only a 27 out of 100 based on project data from the preceding year.
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