Associated Builders and Contractors recently released its 2026 Top Performers lists, recognizing its contractor members’ outstanding achievements in health and safety, quality and project excellence, ranked by number of hours worked.
“These contractors — which build the nation’s most enduring, innovative, high-quality construction projects — develop smart strategies that create a clear path for success, regardless of the circumstances,” said Michael Bellaman, ABC president and CEO. “ABC Top Performers all share commonalities like participation in ABC’s STEP Health and Safety Management System and ABC’s Accredited Quality Contractor credential. They find opportunity amid uncertainty, embrace competition, cultivate positive company culture, prioritize safety and total human health, invest in leadership and workforce development and implement new technologies. Congratulations to these outstanding merit shop contractors for being employers of choice.”
Among contractors rated by type of work:
- The top general contractor is Turner Industries Group
- The top trade contractor is MMR Constructors
- The top electrical contractor is MMR Constructors
- The top plumbing/HVAC contractor is TDIndustries
- The top specialty contractor is Apache Industrial Services
The No. 1 2026 ABC top-performing contractors by market sector are:
- Airport: Hensel Phelps
- Education: Balfour Beatty Construction
- Entertainment: Tri-City Electrical Contractors
- Government: BL Harbert International
- Health Care: Robins & Morton
- High Tech/Data Centers: Faith Technologies
- Hospitality: BL Harbert International
- Industrial: Turner Industries Group
- Infrastructure: Allan Myers
- Military: M.C. Dean
- Mixed Use: Lithko Contracting
- Museums/Monuments/Parks: MAREK
- Office: Brasfield & Gorrie
- Parking: Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing
- Religious: Bergelectric Corp.
- Renewables: Richard Construction
- Residential: Power Design
- Retail: Sevan Multi-Site Solutions
- Sports Complex: BL Harbert International
To qualify, Top Performers must achieve Gold status or higher in ABC’s STEP Health and Safety Management System, which helps the best-performing contractors achieve incident rates nearly seven times safer than the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average, according to ABC’s Health and Safety Performance Report. The honorees also must earn ABC’s Accredited Quality Contractor credential, which recognizes excellence in quality, health and safety performance, talent management, craft and management education and community relations. Through robust programs like STEP and AQC, ABC Top Performers demonstrate they can:
- Sustain and grow their businesses, financially and economically
- Offer market-competitive compensation, benefit and retirement packages
- Commit to industry-leading health and safety
- Commit to workforce development, education and creating career opportunities
- Develop opportunities for employees to achieve career dreams
- Cultivate committed leadership.
View the 2026 Top Performers lists at abc.org/topperformers.
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