Fueled by employee ownership, a strategic vision and expansive service offerings, Terracon is helping grow the Midwest, thousands of projects at a time.
It could be solar, it could be wind. It could be green roofs or clean streets. Whatever the mechanism for greening the built environment, there is one force that drives environmental justice activist Charles Callaway: community.
Forty-five years after starting out as an apprentice, Mike Greenawalt is preparing to retire as CEO of the nation's largest employee-owned electrical contracting firm.
When Ray Kowalik first interviewed with a recruiter at Kansas City, Mo.-based Burns & McDonnell after graduating from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s in civil engineering, the concept of employee ownership didn’t bear all that much weight.
Across Buist Electric’s primary stomping grounds of western Michigan, business continues to be strong. The Byron Center, Mich.-based electrical contractor is on track to grow its regional revenue by 25% in 2023, continuing a pace set over the last several years.
Employee-owned architectural and engineering firm Halff has had a stellar last few years—nearly doubling revenue, hiring hundreds of new employees to tackle significant design projects and keeping its people-first business model.