A competent general contractor in 2015 didn’t need to look very hard for work. But he did have to work hard to find subcontractors. Many of the top developers, like Alliance Residential and Mill Creek, handled that challenge themselves by serving as their own GCs. But for true third-party contractors, the value proposition was being able to provide a steady stream of labor. In some cases, for example, Summit Contracting Group’s subs worked only for Summit, which is possible when you do work in 32 states covering a variety of product types. But if you could find labor, you could grow in 2015. And many of this year's NMHC Top 25 Contractors did just that.
Here's the exclusive list:
| Rank (2016) | Rank (2015) | Company Name |
Units Contracted (2015) | Units Contracted (2014) | Corporate Officer |
HQ City |
HQ State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alliance Residential Company | 7765 | 0 | Bruce Ward and V. Jay Hiemenz | Phoenix | AZ | |
| 2 | 1 | Balfour Beatty Construction | 6619 | 4910 | Mark Layman | Dallas | TX |
| 3 | Mill Creek Residential Trust LLC | 6026 | 0 | Charles R. Brindell and William C. MacDonald | Dallas | TX | |
| 4 | 6 | Summit Contracting Group, Inc. | 4853 | 2075 | Marc Padgett | Jacksonville | FL |
| 5 | Trammell Crow Residential | 3789 | 2564 | Kenneth J. Valach | Dallas | TX | |
| 6 | Suffolk Construction Company | 3728 | 3017 | John F. Fish | Boston | MA | |
| 7 | Holland Partner Group | 3536 | 1790 | Clyde Holland | Vancouver | WA | |
| 8 | 3 | CBG Building Company LLC | 3320 | 3014 | Keith Anderson | Arlington | VA |
| 9 | 9 | The Bozzuto Group | 3185 | 1425 | Thomas S. Bozzuto | Greenbelt | MD |
| 10 | Hanover Company | 3017 | 3470 | John H. Nash | Houston | TX | |
| 11 | 4 | Carocon Corporation | 2670 | 2635 | Ambrose W Dittloff | Charlotte | NC |
| 12 | McShane Construction Company | 2612 | 0 | Jeff Raday | Rosemont | IL | |
| 13 | Weis Builders, Inc. | 2517 | 1347 | Jay Weis | Minneapolis | MN | |
| 14 | Oden Hughes L.L.C | 2282 | 2484 | Mac McElwrath | Austin | TX | |
| 15 | StreetLights Residential | 2259 | 460 | Tom Bakewell | Dallas | TX | |
| 16 | 25 | LandSouth Construction, LLC | 2252 | 866 | James G Pyle | Jacksonville Beach | FL |
| 17 | Doster Construction Company | 2098 | 824 | Walton Doster | Birmingham | AL | |
| 18 | 11 | Galaxy Builders, Ltd. | 1977 | 1292 | Neilesh Verma | San Antonio | TX |
| 19 | 16 | CFC Construction Inc. | 1880 | 1123 | EJ Olbright | Golden | CO |
| 20 | JPI | 1840 | 1240 | Mark Bryant | Irving | TX | |
| 21 | Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC | 1837 | 2747 | Robert A. Faith | Charleston | SC | |
| 22 | The NRP Group LLC | 1836 | 0 | J. David Heller and T. Richard Bailey | Cleveland | OH | |
| 23 | 8 | Harkins Builders, Inc. | 1806 | 1750 | Richard M. Lombardo | Marriottsville | MD |
| 24 | Picerne Real Estate Group | 1805 | 0 | David R. Picerne | Phoenix | AZ | |
| 25 | 15 | Wermers Companies | 1800 | 1200 | Thomas Wermers and Jeff Bunker | San Diego | CA |
