Top construction companies in Texas

As one of America’s most populous and fastest-growing states, Texas is home to a massive construction sector — and to some of the largest contractors in the country. The companies behind that growth range from global engineering-and-construction firms to employee-owned Texas builders that have worked in the state for generations.

This post ranks the top construction companies headquartered in Texas 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 Texas

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

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

Fluor

Headquarters: Irving, Texas 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $10,888.3 million — national rank #9

Fluor is one of the largest engineering, procurement, and construction firms in the world, founded in 1912 and employing roughly 27,000 people. The company builds and maintains large, complex facilities for energy, industrial, infrastructure, and government clients across North America and beyond.

Fluor’s services include:

• engineering and design
• procurement
• construction and construction management
• fabrication and modular construction
• operations and maintenance

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• oil, gas, and petrochemicals
• advanced technology, semiconductor, and data center facilities
• transportation and highway infrastructure
• power and nuclear
• mining, metals, and life sciences

Fluor has earned recent recognition, including ENR’s No. 1 ranking among industrial-sector contractors and No. 5 among the Top 500 Design Firms in 2025. In Texas, Fluor was selected in March 2025 to reconstruct and widen a 12-mile stretch of State Highway 6 near College Station in a $671 million project, and the firm has since been awarded engineering and design work for the America First Refining facility at the Port of Brownsville.

McDermott International

Headquarters: Houston, Texas 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $9,954.0 million — national rank #13

McDermott is a global engineering and construction firm serving the energy industry, with roots that trace back to a 1923 contract to build wooden drilling rigs in Luling, Texas. Today the company employs more than 30,000 people and delivers onshore, offshore, subsea, and low-carbon energy projects worldwide.

McDermott’s services include:

• engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC)
• front-end engineering and design
• offshore, subsea, and marine construction
• fabrication
• storage and tank engineering

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• liquefied natural gas (LNG)
• offshore and subsea oil and gas
• low-carbon and clean energy, including carbon capture and hydrogen
• power transmission
• petrochemicals and energy storage

McDermott’s largest Texas undertaking is Golden Pass LNG in Sabine Pass, where the firm leads engineering and construction on three LNG trains — a project that has employed a peak workforce of roughly 9,000 on the Texas Gulf Coast.

AECOM

Headquarters: Dallas, Texas 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $8,298.2 million — national rank #18

AECOM is a multinational infrastructure consulting firm that plans, designs, engineers, and manages projects for public and private clients. Formed in 1990 and now headquartered in Dallas after relocating from Los Angeles in 2021, the company employs about 51,000 people.

AECOM’s services include:

• advisory and program management
• architecture and design
• engineering
• construction management
• environmental services

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• transportation
• water
• energy
• environment
• cities and urban development

AECOM was named the No. 1 company in its industry on Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies list and ranked the top overall design firm in ENR’s 2025 survey. In Texas, AECOM was selected as lead designer for a segment of the North Houston Highway Improvement Project, the multi-year redesign of I-45 through downtown Houston, and won a design-build contract to complete State Highway 161 in the Dallas–Fort Worth area.

Balfour Beatty US

Headquarters: Dallas, Texas 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $6,066.6 million — national rank #27

Balfour Beatty US is the American construction business of London-based Balfour Beatty plc, with roots in the US market dating to the 1930s. The company provides general contracting, construction management, and design-build services for public and private clients nationwide, spanning both buildings and heavy civil infrastructure.

Balfour Beatty’s services include:

• general contracting
• at-risk construction management
• design-build
• heavy civil and infrastructure construction
• vertical building construction

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• aviation
• healthcare
• higher education and K–12
• highways, bridges, and transportation
• federal, civic, and water

Balfour Beatty was named No. 9 on Associated Builders and Contractors’ 2025 Top General Contractors list. Two of its largest current jobs are in Texas: an $889 million reconstruction of Interstate 30 in Dallas, awarded in 2025, and a $746 million rebuild of Interstate 35 through downtown Austin, awarded in 2024.

Austin Industries

Headquarters: Dallas, Texas 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $4,158.4 million — national rank #41

Austin Industries is one of the largest and most diversified construction firms in the United States, founded in 1918 and 100% employee-owned with more than 7,000 employee-owners. The company operates through three subsidiaries — Austin Commercial, Austin Bridge & Road, and Austin Industrial — covering commercial building, heavy civil, and industrial work.

Austin’s services include:

• commercial building construction
• heavy civil, highway, and bridge construction
• industrial construction and maintenance
• paving and self-perform concrete
• preconstruction and design-build

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• aviation and transportation infrastructure
• commercial and mixed-use
• healthcare
• technology and data centers
• chemical, refining, power, and manufacturing

Austin Commercial was recognized with ABC’s 2025 National Safety Excellence “Pinnacle” Award. In its home market, the firm’s Austin Commercial unit was awarded the construction contract for the Arrivals and Departures Hall in the expansion of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.

Ferrovial Construction

Headquarters: Austin, Texas 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $2,426.0 million — national rank #56

Ferrovial Construction is the US construction arm of Ferrovial, the Spanish infrastructure group founded in 1952, and runs its American operations from Austin. The company specializes in the design and construction of highways, managed lanes, and heavy civil infrastructure, frequently delivered through public-private partnerships.

Ferrovial’s services include:

• design-build highway and managed-lane construction
• civil engineering and heavy civil infrastructure
• public-private partnership delivery
• bridges and structures
• building and industrial construction

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• transportation infrastructure and highways
• toll roads and managed lanes
• public works and civil infrastructure
• buildings
• industrial works

Ferrovial’s Texas portfolio centers on major highway expansions delivered with partner Webber: the I-35 Northeast Expansion Central in San Antonio, a $1.5 billion project adding roughly 18 miles of elevated main lanes, and a $400 million capacity improvement to the North Tarrant Express in the Dallas–Fort Worth area.

CORE Construction Group

Headquarters: Frisco, Texas 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $2,329.0 million — national rank #57

CORE Construction is a national construction management, design-build, and general contracting firm founded in 1937 by mason Otto Baum. The company opened a purpose-built group headquarters in Frisco, Texas, in 2020 and employs more than 1,200 people, with a strong concentration in public-sector work.

CORE’s services include:

• construction management
• design-build
• general contracting
• job order contracting
• preconstruction

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• K–12 education
• higher education
• civic and municipal
• public safety
• healthcare

CORE was named to Building Design+Construction’s Top 100 K–12 School Construction Firms and has built civic and education projects across Texas, including the City of Garland Central Library modernization and Jarrell Ranch Middle School.

E.E. Reed Construction

Headquarters: Sugar Land, Texas 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $2,231.0 million — national rank #65

E.E. Reed is a Houston-area commercial general contractor founded in 1977 by Gene Reed and now led by the second generation of the family. The firm delivers ground-up and renovation projects across office, healthcare, hospitality, industrial, and institutional markets.

E.E. Reed’s services include:

• preconstruction
• general contracting
• single-source project management
• value engineering
• corporate interiors and renovations

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• office buildings
• multi-family
• hospitality
• industrial
• life sciences and labs

E.E. Reed was named a Houston Chronicle Top Workplace in 2023. Its recent Texas work includes the Sienna Ranch Solution Center in Missouri City and the West Houston medical office building redevelopment, a nearly 169,000-square-foot renovation completed in 2023.

Harvey-Cleary

Headquarters: Houston, Texas 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $2,033.0 million — national rank #72

Harvey-Cleary is a Houston-based commercial general contractor founded in 1957 by David E. Harvey, Sr. and Gerald D. Hines, with roughly $2 billion in annual construction volume. The firm self-performs and manages ground-up and interior building work across a broad range of sectors.

Harvey-Cleary’s services include:

• preconstruction
• construction management and general contracting
• self-perform work
• quality control and safety management
• sustainability and technology integration

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• commercial and office
• healthcare, life sciences, and labs
• mission-critical and data centers
• residential and multi-family
• education and mixed-use

Harvey-Cleary was named ENR Texas & Louisiana’s 2023 Contractor of the Year. Its recent projects include Brava, a 46-story luxury tower cited as Houston’s tallest residential building, and the SXSW Headquarters in Austin, a 13-story office building that won an Award of Merit in ENR’s Regional Best Projects.

Rogers-O’Brien Construction

Headquarters: Dallas, Texas 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $1,976.1 million — national rank #74

Rogers-O’Brien is a family-owned Texas general contractor founded in 1969 by Steve Rogers and Pat O’Brien and now in its third generation. The firm provides preconstruction and construction management services statewide, with more than 750 team members across its Texas offices.

Rogers-O’Brien’s services include:

• general contracting and construction management
• preconstruction
• virtual design and construction
• in-house MEP leadership
• safety and quality management

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• academic, K–12 and higher education
• advanced manufacturing and technology
• commercial and community
• healthcare
• living and mission-critical

Rogers-O’Brien was named a winner in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards for deploying wearable heat-safety technology across its workforce. Its recent Texas high-rises include 300 Main, a 32-story mixed-use tower in downtown San Antonio, and a 30-story student-housing tower near the University of Texas at Austin.

Bartlett Cocke General Contractors

Headquarters: San Antonio, Texas 2025 revenue (ENR 2026 Top 400): $1,306.5 million — national rank #104

Bartlett Cocke General Contractors is a 100% employee-owned Texas builder founded in San Antonio in 1959, with regional offices in Austin and Houston. It was recognized among ENR’s Top 400 Contractors for 2026 at #104, up four spots from the prior year, and executed more than $1 billion in work in 2023 — a record year — under a five-year strategic plan running through 2028.

Bartlett Cocke’s services include:

• general contracting
• construction management at risk (CMAR)
• design-build
• competitive sealed proposal (CSP) delivery
• negotiated and hard-bid delivery

The company has extensive experience servicing the following sectors:

• PK–12 education
• higher education
• civic and government
• industrial and manufacturing
• commercial, healthcare, and mixed-use

Bartlett Cocke’s work is concentrated in Texas public and institutional construction, delivered from its San Antonio home base and offices in Austin and Houston.

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