Top construction companies in Ohio

Construction is one of Ohio’s largest employment sectors, and the state’s builders reflect that scale — from heavy-civil firms rebuilding the interstates and Ohio River bridges to employee-owned general contractors that have worked in the same city for a century. Several of them rank among the largest contractors in the country.

This post ranks the top construction companies headquartered in Ohio by their position on Engineering News-Record’s 2026 Top 400 Contractors list, which ranks firms by their 2025 construction revenue. Every revenue figure and rank below comes from ENR’s published list; sources are linked throughout.

The top construction companies in Ohio

Here are the largest Ohio-headquartered contractors on ENR’s 2026 Top 400, ranked by national position.

Source: ENR 2026 Top 400 Contractors (2025 revenue).

Kokosing Group of Cos.

Headquarters: Westerville, Ohio 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $2,797.0 million — national rank #52

Kokosing is one of the largest heavy-civil and general contractors in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, founded in 1951 by William Burgett and still family-owned across three generations. The company self-performs a large share of its work — up to roughly 80 percent on many projects — and operates its own materials and aggregates businesses.

Kokosing’s services include:

• highway, bridge, and heavy-civil construction
• water and wastewater infrastructure
• marine and underground construction
• industrial construction and maintenance
• asphalt and concrete paving

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• transportation and highways
• water and wastewater
• energy, power, and pipelines
• marine and ports
• industrial and manufacturing

Kokosing’s largest current undertaking is the Brent Spence Bridge Corridor, the roughly $3.6 billion Ohio River crossing between Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, which the firm is delivering as a joint venture with Walsh Construction after winning the contract in 2024. The company also carries a steady book of Ohio Turnpike and Ohio Department of Transportation highway and bridge work.

Messer Construction Co.

Headquarters: Cincinnati, Ohio 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $2,003.4 million — national rank #73

Messer is a commercial general contractor founded in Cincinnati by Frank Messer in 1932 and employee-owned since a management-and-employee buyout in 1990. The company runs regional offices across Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and the surrounding states, with a strong concentration in healthcare and higher education.

Messer’s services include:

• preconstruction and cost planning
• construction management and general contracting
• self-perform work
• lean construction
• real estate development

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• healthcare
• higher education
• aviation
• advanced technology and industrial
• civic and mission-critical

Messer built the $600 million Critical Care Building at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, an eight-story, 630,000-square-foot facility that later won an AGC Build America Award. The firm has also been named ENR Midwest’s Contractor of the Year for its work, safety record, and workforce-diversity results.

The Rudolph Libbe Cos. Inc.

Headquarters: Walbridge, Ohio 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $1,385.0 million — national rank #101

The Rudolph Libbe Group (RLG) is a construction and facilities organization founded in 1955 and headquartered near Toledo, operating as one team across Rudolph Libbe Inc., GEM Inc., GEM Energy, and Lehman Daman. The group delivers construction management, design-build, and self-perform work across the industrial Midwest.

Rudolph Libbe’s services include:

• construction management and general contracting
• design-build and preconstruction
• self-perform civil, concrete, and carpentry
• mechanical, electrical, and energy services
• facility management

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• automotive and advanced manufacturing
• industrial and metals
• healthcare
• food and beverage processing
• commercial, institutional, and warehouse/distribution

RLG’s 2.7 million-square-foot expansion of Ford’s Ohio Assembly Plant won both a 2025 Build Ohio Award and ENR’s 2025 Best Manufacturing Project in the Midwest. The group has also climbed into ENR’s Top 100 Contractors in recent years on the strength of its industrial backlog.

Independence Construction

Headquarters: Brecksville, Ohio 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $693.0 million — national rank #195

Independence Construction is a commercial and industrial general contractor and construction manager in the Cleveland area, part of the DiGeronimo Companies, whose self-perform roots in Northeast Ohio date to 1956. The firm delivers large commercial and industrial projects end to end, from preconstruction through commissioning, with an owner-builder mindset.

Independence’s services include:

• construction management
• design-build
• general contracting
• preconstruction
• self-perform site and concrete work (through affiliated DiGeronimo firms)

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• commercial and mixed-use
• industrial and manufacturing
• sports and entertainment
• higher education and healthcare
• civic and infrastructure

Independence served as an associate construction manager alongside Mortenson on the $202.5 million renovation of Progressive Field, home of the Cleveland Guardians, and is construction manager for the residential and mixed-use components of Valor Acres in Brecksville, a live-work-play redevelopment of a former VA campus.

Elford Inc.

Headquarters: Columbus, Ohio 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $649.6 million — national rank #209

Elford is a Columbus general contractor and construction manager founded in 1910 by English immigrant Edward “Pop” Elford, now employee-owned and in its fifth generation of leadership. The firm has built much of Columbus’s institutional landscape, from Easton Town Center to hospitals and public schools across the region.

Elford’s services include:

• construction management
• general contracting
• design-build
• owner’s representation
• service and small projects

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• healthcare and eldercare
• K–12 and higher education
• corporate office and retail
• industrial and manufacturing
• aviation

Elford’s portfolio includes Easton Town Center and 24 new Columbus City Schools built during the district’s rebuilding program. The firm is now part of the team delivering the new $2 billion, one-million-square-foot terminal at John Glenn Columbus International Airport, where Hensel Phelps is construction manager at risk.

Danis

Headquarters: Miamisburg, Ohio 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $535.2 million — national rank #250

Danis is a third-generation, privately owned construction company founded in 1916 and based in the Dayton area, serving the Midwest and Southeast from offices in Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida. The firm reports a 96 percent repeat-customer rate on its public and private building and industrial work.

Danis’s services include:

• construction management
• general contracting
• design-build and build-to-suit
• self-perform work
• quality and safety management

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• healthcare and life sciences
• advanced manufacturing and technology
• education
• senior living
• food and beverage, corporate, and hospitality

Danis’s healthcare portfolio includes complex projects delivered on operating hospital campuses — among them an eight-story patient tower built inside the courtyard of a fully operational children’s hospital while the facility stayed open throughout the multi-year build.

Ruscilli Construction

Headquarters: Dublin, Ohio 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $477.0 million — national rank #265

Ruscilli is a full-service general contractor and construction manager founded in 1945 in central Ohio and now 100 percent employee-owned. An early adopter of design-build — the firm introduced the delivery method to many of its clients in 1967 — Ruscilli has completed projects in 28 states from its Dublin headquarters.

Ruscilli’s services include:

• preconstruction
• construction management
• design-build
• general contracting
• program management and construction consulting

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• commercial office
• industrial and manufacturing
• K–12 and higher education
• retail
• multifamily and senior housing

Ruscilli remains one of the largest full-service construction firms in the Midwest and is expanding its Dublin headquarters, a project the City of Dublin backed in 2024.

Shook Construction

Headquarters: Moraine, Ohio 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $472.7 million — national rank #268

Shook Construction is a general contractor and design-builder founded in 1926 by Charles H. Shook in Dayton, now with offices across Ohio and the Mid-Atlantic. The firm is known particularly for water and wastewater treatment work alongside its building practice.

Shook’s services include:

• general contracting
• construction management
• design-build
• preconstruction
• self-perform concrete and structures

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• water resources and wastewater
• healthcare
• education
• aviation
• industrial and mission-critical

Shook, in a design-build joint venture with AECOM, delivered the Northwest Regional Water Treatment Plant in Greene County, Ohio, a project that increases treated-water capacity for one of the state’s faster-growing counties.

Ulliman Schutte Construction LLC

Headquarters: Miamisburg, Ohio 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $351.3 million — national rank #333

Ulliman Schutte is a national water and wastewater specialist founded in 1998 by Herb Schutte and Matt Ulliman and headquartered in Miamisburg. The firm builds and renovates treatment plants, pump stations, and flood-protection systems across the country, with the bonding capacity to take on projects north of $250 million.

Ulliman Schutte’s services include:

• construction management at risk
• design-build
• general contracting
• preconstruction and estimating
• self-perform process-mechanical work

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• drinking water treatment
• wastewater treatment
• pump stations and conveyance
• flood protection and stormwater
• large-diameter sewer rehabilitation

The firm’s Large Diameter Sewer Rehabilitation project won the 2024 Design-Build Institute of America National Award of Excellence in the rehabilitation and renovation category, completing more than a mile of trenchless work beneath a seven-lane road while keeping traffic moving.

Miller Valentine Construction

Headquarters: Cincinnati, Ohio 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $331.9 million — national rank #346

Miller Valentine is a general contractor and developer founded in Dayton in 1963, now operating from offices in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, and in South Carolina. The company has built more than 100 million square feet of commercial space and 16,000 multifamily units over its history.

Miller Valentine’s services include:

• general contracting
• design-build
• preconstruction
• tilt-up concrete construction (the proprietary Con/Steel system)
• integrated project delivery

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• multifamily and affordable housing
• industrial and distribution
• climate-controlled self-storage
• healthcare
• office and commercial

Miller Valentine’s construction business spans market-rate and affordable multifamily communities, industrial and distribution facilities, and self-storage across the Midwest and Southeast, delivered through methods including its tilt-up Con/Steel building system and lean, integrated project delivery.

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