World’s Top 10 Construction Companies

Have a look at each construction company which made up their way to this list of
top ten!

10. Laing O’Rourke

This British-based company is quite young as contrasted to few of the fellow top-
tenners of this list but still has expanded at a faster rate. Also, this company has
worked on several high-profile projects in the past decade, including Heathrow
Airport Terminal 5 and Ascot Racecourse. Further, it has its current involvement
in the vast overseas project of Al Raha Beach expansion in Abu Dhabi, Dubai.

09. Royal BAM Group

This company is famous for building Ajax football club’s Amsterdam Arena in its
native Netherlands in 1996. Notably, it got founded in 1886 in Holland.
Additionally, the full form of the abbreviation BAM is – ‘Bataafsche Aanneming
Maatschappij,’ which in English becomes ‘Batavian Construction Company for
Construction and Concrete Projects.’ This company has around 27,000 people in
it.

08. Kiewit
This Nebraska-based company is different on this list because its employees own
it. That means almost every staff member of the project is a shareholder. Most
noteworthy, the company ranked in Engineering News-Record’s Top 400
Contractors in 2013, at the third position.

07. Bouygues Construction

This French company, in the mid-1990s grew into telecoms, which served as
another primary income stream. Also, it employs over 130,000 people in 80
separate countries. Further, its secondary firm, Colas Group, specializes in road
and rail track construction.

06. Balfour Beatty

The multinational has headquarters in London, and the company is an integral
part of the Crossrail project in the UK capital. Notably, this company was founded
in 1909 by George Balfour and Andrew Beatty. It runs in over 80 countries around
the world, and some 40,000 people work for the company.

05. Skanska

This is a Sweden based company which operates in the commercial, residential,

and infrastructure sectors. In the US, the multinational is famous for building the
Meadowland Sports Complex, made for NFL’s New York Jets and Giants. Skanska
also hires over 50,000 persons.

04. Hochtief
This German company serves in the US via its Turner subsidiary. It focuses on
infrastructure projects more. The Hochtief has around 80,000 people and
celebrates its 145th anniversary this year. Further, the Spanish contractor- Grupo
ACS owns a majority stake in the organization of more than 50% since 2011.

03. Bechtel
The most significant US contractor has served on some high-profile projects like
the Hoover Dam which completed back in 1936. Some more projects include- The
Trans-Alaska Pipeline system in the ‘70s, and also the ‘Big Dig’ Central Artery
project ended in 2007. The company has over 53,000 people from all over the
globe.
02. Grupo ACS
This Spanish contractor firm got formed in 1997 due to the merger of two other
construction organizations. Also, it left behind several high-profile properties even
that of Hochtief. The company built the Alqueva Dam in Portugal. Also, it
produced Torre Espacio and Torre de Cristal skyscrapers in its native country.

01. Vinci
This French company is 115-year-old which surpasses revenues of almost every
privately-owned construction company in this world. It has especially achieved
this position through smart possessions and robust delivery of high-end, large-
scale projects. For example, the Gariep Dam in South Africa, completed in 1971
and also the Stade de France.

Notably, this field was for the Football World Cup of 1998, and it now is France’s
National Stadium. The group employs over 183,000 people. Further its projects
include- the €440 million express-lane highway system in Atlanta, Georgia and
also the Wheatstone Liquefied Natural Gas Project in Australia.