Contractors across the five-state region of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas have continued to build despite the hardships that came with 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, with many actually growing their revenue over 2019.
The top 100 firms included in this year’s ENR Texas & Louisiana Top Contractors ranking reported a combined $45.59 billion in regional revenue for 2020, down $2.87 billion from 2019, when firms reported a combined $48.46 billion in revenue.
安德烈斯建筑服务公司运营副总裁斯蒂芬·米勒（Stephen Miller）说：“与许多承包商一样，2020年是创纪录的收入年。”“我们的长期增长一直是与员工所有者，贸易伙伴，客户和设计师建立牢固关系的产物。”这家位于达拉斯的公司报告说，去年的区域收入增长了2.27亿美元，达到6.892亿美元，并将13个地点跃升至24号。
Webber is leading the $301-million Loop 12 project in Irving, Texas. The project consists of the reconstruction of 7.4 miles of SL 12 in Dallas, including the renovation of existing Interchanges between four major highways: State Loop 12, State Spur 482, State Highway 114 and 183.
Photo courtesy of Webber
“In 2020, about 75% of our projects were for repeat clients. We were fortunate to be able to keep our jobsites open as Texas identified construction as an essential business,” Miller says. “While the pandemic created major operational challenges, we were able to adapt and make adjustments that will make us a stronger company moving forward.”
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在德克萨斯州,pandemic presented the construction industry with several challenges, one being the long-term disruption to the flow of equipment and materials to jobsites, says Dennis Yung, executive vice president and general manager for Houston and North Texas at Skanska USA.
“Many felt the immediate impact in 2020 as factories shut down, distribution came to a halt and budgets were cut, but now the industry is experiencing additional delays due to supply chain disruption and rising material prices,” Yung says.
Palmisano served as design-build contractor on 1016 Canal Street, leading the historic renovation and construction of the five-story mixed-use building located on New Orleans’ historic Canal Street corridor. The 1016 Canal project was completed in July 2020.
Photo courtesy of Palmisano LLC
Skanska in San Antonio saw a $7-million decline during 2020 to reach $117.16 million in regional revenue, lifting the firm three spots to No. 73.
Yung补充说，从建设过程中为客户提供以不同价格新利18备用官网登录的替代品为客户提供替代品的材料成本，该行业正在利用替代资源和方法来节省按时和预算。
“大挑战企业重新思考the physical workspace to ensure it is a place where team members can collaborate in a way that upholds health and safety considerations,” Yung says.
该公司总裁兼首席执行官贾斯汀·麦卡菲（Justin McAfee）表示，由于总部位于达拉斯的Rogers-O’Brien建筑仅在德克萨斯州建造，因此该公司受益于该州，该州仍在严格的Covid政策中开放。
该公司报告说，2019年，2020年的区域收入获得了1.2895亿美元的收益，总计7.0744亿美元，将该公司提高了5个地点至22号。
A strong backlog going into 2020 and 2021 kept the firm moving upward, as did the trend of corporate relocations to Texas, McAfee says.
新奥尔良Palmisano LLC的创始人Wesley J. Palmisano指出，在路易斯安那州，尤其是在新奥尔良，酒店业受到了重大打击。
“With hotels, restaurants and tourism numbers way down in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions, Palmisano diversified both the sectors and geographic areas it serviced,” he says. Palmisano began affordable housing projects throughout Louisiana and grew its civil division with New Orleans public works road projects.
The firm reported $80 million in regional revenue for 2020, down $35 million from 2019, pushing the firm down three spots to No. 83. But since the beginning of the pandemic, Palmisano has added 50 jobs, completed 16 major projects and was awarded $250 million in new commercial work and $44 million in new civil work.
“Like many firms, in 2020 we saw some awarded jobs and opportunities for work get delayed. The year that we planned to have didn’t happen the way we thought it would, and we couldn’t predict how long things would continue to remain unstable,” says Joe Jouvenal, southern region president at McCarthy Building Cos. The Dallas-based firm saw a $175-million decline last year, dropping the firm’s regional revenue to $679 million, ranking seven spots lower at No. 25.
“ 2020可以将其描述为一年的灵活性。麦卡锡（McCarthy）在2020年重新评估了我们的重点领域，将长期可持续市场确定为优先事项。”他说。
Balfour Beatty, Dallas, started out 2020 with a strong balance sheet that “strategically allocated capital and resources, positioning the company to be an active thought and building partner in every growth market during the pandemic,” says Steve Dillon, vice president and business unit leader of Balfour Beatty’s North Texas large projects group.
The firm posted $1.1 billion in regional revenue for 2020, up by $163 million and moving the firm up two spots in the ranking to No. 11.
“For our civil operations in particular, we found that many of our projects had reduced traffic on highway projects due to COVID-19,” adds John Rempe, executive vice president of Balfour Beatty’s Southwest civils operations. “This gave us the opportunity to capitalize on reduced traffic volumes to accelerate work schedules and secure more highway projects in working with our respective clients.”
曼哈顿的道路和桥梁co .)最近完成了$13-million Clark and Hot Springs County Bridge Replacement, near Arkadelphia, Ark. The bridges were 170 linear ft composite plate girder spans with 69-in. webs.
Photo courtesy of the Arkansas Dept. of Transportation
New Initiatives
Employees’ “grit, adaptability and perseverance” characterized 2020 for Webber, says Jose Carlos Esteban, the firm’s president and CEO. Based in The Woodlands, Texas, the infrastructure contractor moved up six spots in the ranking to No. 8 with $1.14 billion in regional revenue, a gain of $235 million over 2019.
“尽管Covid-19，我们能够增加产量的原因之一是我们的项目都没有关闭。新利18备用网址我们迅速制定了安全协议，我们的团队在使项目的进展过程中做得非常出色。” Esteban说。新利18备用网址
“ 2020可以将其描述为一年的灵活性。”
—Joe Jouvenal, Southern Region President, McCarthy Building Cos.
Webber had multiple large heavy civil project awards in 2019 that moved into high production periods in 2020 and drove up revenue, including the I-35 project in Waco, Loop 12 in Dallas and multiple I-10 projects in Houston and San Antonio.
“In addition, our waterworks division also [was] in high production phases and [increased] its backlog significantly with projects like the Northeast Water Purification Plant Expansion in Houston,” Esteban says.
In 2020, Webber announced that it would divest its materials division and discontinue operations on its commercial division as part of parent company Ferrovial’s Horizon 2024 plan, which aims to focus on its companies’ core markets.
“Despite these changes, our core markets heavy civil and waterworks continue to grow rapidly,” Esteban says.
投资员工仍然是该地区承包商的关键倡议。
“ 2021年，安德烈斯（Andres）启动了我们内部员工开发计划Endeavor。努力是安德烈斯（Andres）继续承诺投资我们员工所有者的个人和专业发展的关键例子。”米勒说。
总部位于塔尔萨的曼哈顿建筑集团（Manhattan Construction Group）也在2021年扩大了领导力计划，启动了新的曼哈顿执行领导力发展计划（MELD）。曼哈顿总裁拉里·鲁尼（Larry Rooney）解释说，这个密集的12个月计划为高级中级领导者提供了为执行级职位做好准备所需的发展机会。
曼哈顿报告说，2020年的区域收入为11.37亿美元，比2019年下降了4.42亿美元，将该公司的四个地点降至第10位。预计这一比例都在第10期，因为该公司于3月在德克萨斯州阿灵顿完成了12亿美元的全球生命领域。2020年。大流行还将几个项目延迟到以后。
8月，麦卡锡建筑公司（McCarthy Building Cos。该项目由四座建筑物和一个450个空间地下停车场组成。
Photo courtesy of McCarthy Building Cos.
Promising 2021
Despite 2020’s challenges, firms across the region agree that 2021 is showing signs of improvement. “Infrastructure, including transportation, marine and energy are active this year,” Jouvenal says.
“We continue to see a steady increase in civil construction projects across all market segments,” adds Earl Mott, Garver’s director of construction services.
“Increased public sector infrastructure investment has been a clear positive for the region as we are seeing more state and local governments prioritizing infrastructure funding. And with the recent federal $8 billion in economic stimulus funding for the aviation industry, it’s clear that construction projects will continue to trend upward in 2021 and beyond.”
Esteban notes that his team has “high expectations for the infrastructure funding bill. There is a need for more water capacity for Texas, especially with the droughts in the western portions of the state and flooding in the eastern and coastal areas.”
The commercial real estate market is improving, and Balfour Beatty is seeing more work for safety retrofits of office spaces, Dillon says. “Additionally, we are seeing the vertical multifamily market coming in strong with the current state of the housing market and residents wanting to live in downtown and uptown areas.”
Meanwhile, the New Orleans hotel and tourism industry is starting to come back, and Palmisano’s affordable housing sector focus is very promising, notes Palmisano. “Affordable housing projects in Shreveport, Lake Charles, Lafayette, Hammond and Donaldsonville are either scheduled to break ground, currently in progress or slated for completion in 2021,” he says. “2021 has also been fruitful for Palmisano’s civil and concrete division, with city of New Orleans-driven infrastructure work on roads throughout town.”
And while growth in suburban markets continues, high density urban infill projects are still happening and seem to be gaining momentum again, adds Miller.
流行后问题仍然存在
劳动力和物质短缺以及材料价格波动仍然是整个地区和该国承包商的关键问题。
“The impact of the high prices is felt throughout the supply chain and is changing the way we approach projects,” Palmisano says.
Those costs can also be a contributing factor if owners are considering delaying a project, and it adds a layer of risk to budgeting exercises, Jouvenal says.
Mott believes that material prices will trend downward in the coming months, “but I don’t anticipate that the cost of materials will return to pre-pandemic rates,” he says.
Jouvenal补充说，紧张的劳动力市场在小型和少数族裔企业方面也带来了一个特殊的挑战。
“McCarthy has an internal participation goal for all of our projects. It can be challenging for us to deliver on this promise to the communities where we work if the number of firms who are active in our geographies can’t keep up with demand as the economy improves and larger projects are released,” he says.
