NJ's Top Construction Firms Flush With New Work

Bon Jovi opens the new $375-million, 18,000-seat, multipurpose Prudential Center in Newark, on October 25, followed two days later by the New Jersey Devils opening game of its National Hockey League schedule against the Ottawa Senators. Ironmen soccer and Seton Hall basketball will be played there as well. The arena, already being dubbed "The Rock" for its Pru naming, is a whopping 800,000 square feet encompassing the hockey rink and a practice rink, a 10,000 square-foot kitchon, eight elevators, 10 escalators and an exterior screen measuing 100 by 40 feet.

Gilbane, Inc., whose Northeast Regional headquarters are in Lawrenceville and is the state's 5th, largest contractor, was selected to do the pre-construction and construction management of this urban arena on a tight footprint at Lafayette and Broad Streets, hemmed in by buildings, highways and the movement of people. This landmark sports venue is indicative of the major construction projects underway or recently completed in the state by our leading construction companies.

A few miles north, at the Meadowlands Sports Complex, a new $1.4-billion football stadium to be built, owned and operated by the New York Giants and the New York Jets, is on the drawing boards. Skanska USA, whose American headquarters are in Parsippany and is ranked 2nd among the state's contractors, has received a $998-million contract, its largest ever in the U.S., to design and build the open-air 2.2-million square-foot stadium to seat 82,500 spectators. The stadium, which will include 217 luxury suites, and 9,000 club seats, is to open for the 2010 season.

The extensive steel skeleton now rising in the Sports Complex area is Meadowlands Xanadu, a $1.3-billion, 4.8-million square-foot sports/entertainment center slated to open in the fall of 2008. It is creating about 20,000 construction jobs and, later, 20,000 permanent jobs. Being developed by Colony Capital in partnership with Dune Real Estate, Credit Suisse, The Mills Corporation and KanAm, in cooperation with the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority, it will eventually have 1.7 million of entertainment space, 1.8 million square feet of offices and a half million square feet of retail, plus a series of parking decks. The developers are committed to spending tens of millions of dollars for road and infrastructure improvement. J. Fletcher Creamer & Son, Hackensack, in a joint venture with Joseph M. Sanzari, known as Creamer Sanzari, has been doing a large portion of the underground construction of Xanadu. Creamer is 12th on our New Jersey contractors list.

Xanadu, is by far, the largest sports/entertainment venue in New Jersey. About half of the retail space, 1 million square feet, has already been leased for the November 2008 opening. New Jersey Transit (NJT) will build a new train station adjacent to the new football stadium and Xanadu. NJT and New York's Metro-North Railroad plan to bring fans from as far as New Haven to Penn Station, then to the Secaucus Transfer Station, where they will take a train to Giants Stadium's new rail station on game days beginning in 2009. Train depots all over New Jersey will connect to the Secaucus complex for transfer to the sports-entertainment complex.

Hunter Roberts Construction Group, the state's 14th largest construction company, with a Bedminster headquarters is currently providing pre-construction services for the new New York Jets Training Facility in Florham Park. The 25-acre site, being developed by the Gale-Rockefeller partnership, will be home to a two-story campus building with training facilities, practice fields and the corporate headquarters for the Jets. Hunter Roberts is handling construction management on the complex, due for completion in June 2008.

Across the river from the Devil's Newark arena, a new Red Bull Park, a 25,000-seat soccer stadium, is under construction at the $1-billion Harrison Metro-Center being developed by Advance Realty Group. The Red Bulls soccer team struck a deal in August with Hartz Mountain Industries to create a Red Bulls Training Grounds on a 20-acre site in Hanover which it would lease from Hartz. To open by the spring of 2009, it would include six soccer fields (one enclosed), a 50,000 square-foot, 2-story office building and a 1-story field house.

Down in Atlantic City, all 11 casinos are in the midst of major construction, headed by Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa's second tower, the non-casino Water Club, which topped out its 42-story, 457-foot height in late July. The $400-million, 800room free-standing tower, to open early next year, will complete Borgata's $600-million master plan and bring its total investment in the resort destination to $1.7 billion. Borgata opened its initial 2,000-room tower in 2003. Meanwhile, the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority estimates the 11 casinos will be investing more than $10 billion in construction over the next five to 10 years.

All of these developing sports and entertainment venues are but a small segment of the billions upon billions of dollars in new, massive undertakings in all sectors of the construction market around the Garden State. In Jersey City, for example, Goldman Sachs & Company recently announced it plans to build a $560-million, 30-story office tower for 3,500 employees and will begin work in late 2009. This tower will augment its first one, the state's tallest building at 42 stories, across the street.

The top contractors in New Jersey are handling the unique infrastructure requirements and tackling the complicated challenges of bringing such behemoth buildings from design to completion stages.

These construction companies have the manpower and materials to complete the intricate undertakings at airports, marine facilities, tunnels, bridges, dams, highways, hospitals, educational facilities, petrochemical plants, power generating station, sports venues and special projects.

All of the companies in this survey appear in "The Top 400 Contractors" of 2007 in McGraw-Hill's Engineering-News Record (ENR). The survey found that the 400 firms generated $262.7 billion in revenue in 2006, up 11.5 percent from the prior year. Even more proof of a hot market is that one firm in the year-ago survey was acquired and was not in the recent survey Thus, it could be that collectively, they saw an 18.1 percent jump in business.

Twenty of the 400 contractors, which have headquarters or regional offices in New Jersey, are sharing in the upbeat market. The 20 firms in this report had a collective $30.5 billion in revenues in the past year. The strong market suggests they will outpace that figure. Here are the highlights, in descending order of revenue, of this score of firms:

Turner Construction Company, which has operated in New Jersey since 1903, opened a full-service regional office in Somerset in 1984 and its staff has grown from 35 to 250. Turner executed $426 million in construction management contracts last year and purchased more than $220 million in goods and services in the Garden State.

With more than 500 projects completed in New Jersey, the Turner name is well known to residents. Its signature has been on the marquees of such landmark building as Goldman Sach's 42-story, 1.6-million square-foot tower in Jersey City, the state's tallest building, and the University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ New Jersey Medical School/University Hospital Cancer Center, a 9-story, 215,000 square-foot complex in Newark.

Turner is No. 1 on our listing and 3rd in the nation with $8.42 billion in revenue. It also has over $10 billion in new contracts in the pipeline. It offers a full complement of inhouse construction management services, from design /build and estimating to purchasing and scheduling, with 46 offices and 5,500 employees nationwide. It works on more than 1,500 projects each year.

The firm was just selected as general contractor for the construction of the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) replacement hospital in Plainsboro Township. It will construct a 269-bed facility with 10 surgical suites, diagnostics, cardiac labs, radiation, oncology and related support space. "As the leading healthcare builder in the nation, we are proud to have been selected by the UMCP to construct the new replacement hospital," says Michael J. Kuntz, vice president of Turner. "This state-of-the-art facility will serve the Central Jersey region with excellence for generations to come."

Turner was selected in June to serve as the construction manager for the $66-million Butler College Dormitories complex at Princeton University. When completed in June 2009, the new 113,000 squarefoot facility will house 288 students and will include academic and social spaces. Tom Reilly, vice president and general manager at Turner's New Jersey office, says the firm is "proud to work with Princeton University once again."

Skanska USA, which has its American headquarters in Parsippany, has been in the news lately for winning the construction management bid to oversee the $1-billion, 7-year makeover of the United Nation's 39-story headquarters in New York City. The job, beginning this fall, involves six buildings with 2.6 million square feet on 17 acres. Work will be done in a series of projects to be completed in 2014.

Skanska USA is ranked No. 5 among the nation's contractors, according to ENR, with $5 billion in revenue. It is 2"' on our listing. Skanska USA Building has some 4,100 employees across the nation. It was the construction manager for the $109-million Liberty Science Center expansion and renovation in Jersey City on behalf of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. The complex, which reopened July 19 after a 22-month construction program, includes a 100,000 square-foot addition and substantial renovations to the existing 196,000 square-foot building. The "new" Liberty Science Center is an improved learning resource for lifelong exploration of nature, humanity and technology. Relocation of the administration operations to the new addition freed up more space for exhibition.

Skanska's American units have been awarded the design/build contract for the new $998-million Meadowlands National Football League (NFL) Football Stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford to house New York Giants and New York jets football games. Skanska officials report this is the largest U.S. order it has ever received. It is the first venue built specifically to accommodate two U.S. NFL teams. The stadium, to be completed in 2010, will also house concerts and other sporting events. A technologicallyadvanced, open-air stadium, it will seat 82,000 spectators. Skanska is also participating in building the new Yankee Stadium in New York city.

On another front, Skanska broke ground this spring for the new $26.5-million Housing V Res'dentist Community Commons at Stockton college in Pomona. It will include four new 3-story residence halls accommodating 64 students in each. Each suite will have four single bedrooms, shared mini-kitchen, and living and bathroom facilities. The first two buildings will be ready in December; the others, by the end of May, 2008.

Bovis Lend Lease, New York, has a regional office at 821 Alexander Road, Princeton, headed by Robert Thomsen, principal in charge. The firm is listed as 6th in the nation with $4.98 billion in revenue, according to ENR. It is 3rd on NJB's listing.

The firm is reported to have more than $10 million in contracts signed.

Its Princeton office is known for managing prominent projects in all building sectors, providing customized planning, project construction management and consulting services. A prominent project was the Princeton Township Municipal Building.

Washington Group international, Boise, Idaho, has a regional office at 510 Carnegie Center, Princeton. it ranks 16th on the ENR list, with $3 billion in revenue and $3.3 billion in new contracts, and is 4th among the firms with New Jersey operations. The company has some 25,000 employees at work in more than 40 states and 30 countries. It provides professional, scientific, management and development services to more than two dozen major markets.

Perhaps the firm is best known to New Jerseyans for its ongoing work with guided rapid transit systems including designing, engineering, constructing, Operating and maintaining the 18-mile Hudson Bergen Light Rail System Currently operating between a half-dozen towns along the Hudson River waterfront. The firm has a 15-year contract with New Jersey Transit to build, operate and maintain the system. it is the majority owner of 21st Century Rail Corporation (70 percent) and the prime contractor in its development.

Washington Group is active in the areas of defense, energy and the environment, industrial processes, infrastructure, mining and power. It is a single company with a family tree made up of some 20 heritage companies, some dating to the late 19th Century.

Gilbane Building Co., Providence, Rhode Island, has a regional office in Lawrenceville.

It is listed at No. 20 in the Top 400 list With revenues of $2.78 billion. It has $3.2 billion in new contracts and is No. 5 on the NJB list.

Since it opened its New Jersey office in 1966, the local office has developed some $5 billion in construction for a wide variety of clients throughout the state. Gilbane is one of the largest privately-held, family-owned companies in the construction and real estate industry and has been in operation since 1873.

As mentioned earlier, Gilbane did the pre-construction and construction of the $375-million, 18,000-seat Prudential Arena, home to the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League. ( See related story on page 64.)

Gilbane's Northeast Region boasts a 65 percent repeat business rate with its clients, which include prominent names in pharmaceuticals and healthcare, as well as in higher education and government. In addition to K-12 school construction in New Jersey, it has done work for the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, Verizon Communications and Rutgers University, among others.

No. 6 on our list and No. 28 of the Top 400, with $2 billion in revenue, is Foster Wheeler Ltd. (FW), with an operational headquarters in Clinton and an administrative one in Hamilton, Bermuda. The company has more than $3.2 million new work in the hopper. Some 68 percent of it is in the petrochemical industry.

It was added in June to the prestigious Russell 1000 Index, which is used by investment managers as an industrial index fund. Raymond J. Milchovich, FW's chairman and CEO, says, "With Foster Wheeler's recent record-level of financial performance, competitive position and robust markets, the company has steadily attracted attention from the investment community. We expect the company, in the Russell 1000, will further broaden that exposure.

FW has been in business for 116 years and operates in 26 countries. In the first quarter of 2007, the firm recorded a whopping 685 percent increase in net income to $114.8 million. Operating revenues for the quarter were $854.5 million, up 65 percent.

This global company offers a range of engineering, procurement, construction, manufacturing, project management, research and plant operation services.

Panattoni Construction, Inc., Sacramento, California, with an operational office in Edison, is 78th on the national list and 7 7th on the New Jersey ranking, with $642.6 million in revenue and more than $700 million in new contracts. It operates 20 offices across the U.S., handling jobs from 2,500 square feet to more than 1 million square feet.

The firm offers a team management approach to the design/build construction of industrial, office, manufacturing and retail projects. It works for many Fortune 500 firms as well as local and regional companies.

Weeks Marine, Inc., Cranford, with 88 years of experience, has grown into one of the leading marine construction and dredging organizations in the nation. Founded by Francis Weeks in 1919 with two cranes in the Port of New York/New Jersey, the company has burgeoned into a six-division corporation with 50 barges and other pieces of waterborne equipment. It also has operations in Camden and in the Greenville Yard, Jersey City.

Listed as the 1101 largest contracting firm in America with $485.9 million in revenues, it lands at No. 8 on the NJB listing. It has $513 million in new contracts ready to go.

Weeks Marine operates hydraulic, hopper and clamshell dredges throughout the U.S. and the Caribbean. It is the largest bulk stevedore in the Port of New York & New Jersey and the largest on the U.S. East Coast, and specializes in manne-related construction projects, including piers, jetties, pipelines, bridges and offshore platforms.

HRH Construction, LLC, White Plains, N.Y., with New Jersey operations in Jersey City, is ranked 1215' on the national 400 list with $455 million in revenue. It is 9th among New Jersey firms. It also has $350 million in new contracts.

It has been serving the New York-New Jersey region with solutions to construction needs since 1925. The firm is well known for its construction management and general contracting on a wide variety of projects.

HRH's track record and credentials are well known in the construction industry and include such landmarks as AT&T World Headquarters, Citicorp Center and the Javits Convention Center.

The firm was founded when the Horowitz and Ravitch family businesses, which began in 1888, were merged. In 1977, HRH merged with Starett Corp., a major real estate developer, construction and management firm. Headed by Chairman Greg Cuneo and President Brad Singer, HRH has worked with the Trump Organization and other developers of major projects in building high-rise residential towers and office complexes.

Torcon, Inc., Red Bank, one of the most recognized names in Garden State development, is ranked 130th on the Top 400 list with $434 million in revenue. It is 10th on the New Jersey listing. The firm has $669 million in contracts for future work.

Torcon's work encompasses nine eastern states, from Connecticut to Florida and as far west as Ohio and Tennessee. It recently completed a facility upgrade in Canada and has a fully-staffed operations office in Puerto Rico. More than three-quarters of its work comes from repeat business. Its clients include such names as Johnson & Johnson, ScheringPlough, Wyeth and the Federal Reserve Bank.

The firm, founded by Benedict Torcivia in 1965, has completed a wide variety of healthcare and commercial projects for private-sector customers. In 1974, Torcon completed its first project as a construction manager and within 10 years was one of the top at-risk construction managers in the U.S. Benedict's sons, Ben and Joe, have each worked with the company for more than 20 years and serve as copresidents.

More than 70 percent of Torcon's projects over the past decade have involved research and development labs and pharmaceutical plants. Torcon, for example, was construction manager for Novartis Pharmaceutical's new $180-million research center in East Hanover. The four-building complex was built in an accelerated fast-track schedule to accommodate the company's sale of its Summit campus and the consolidation of the New Jersey research operations.

The Conti Group, South Plainfield, moved up on the listing of the Top 400 from 229th to 185th, with $325 million in revenue. Ranked 11th on the NJB listing, it has $340 million in new work contracts.

Conti Group, which also has branch offices in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Virginia, is headed by Kurt Conti, president and CEO, whose great-grandfather, Tony Conti, founded the firm in 1906. The firm has evolved over the years into a national corporation, serving federal, state and local public markets and numerous private clients. This fourth-generation company is composed of Conti Enterprises, Inc., Conti Environment & Infrastructure, Contico Corp., Conti Services, LLC, Conti of New York, LLC and Citadel, LLC.

Kurt Conti says his firm's work runs the gamut from "our home land security work at the U.S. Capitol to environmental remediation at West Point to reconstruction at JFK Airport and building a 'first of its kind' renewal energy solution in Atlantic City."

Its work in New Jersey is evident in the 24 retractable hydraulic bollard units used in front of the 42-story Goldman Sachs building in Jersey City for security and the $44-million, 40,000 square-foot Port Imperial Ferry Terminal in Weehawken, which required building a temporary trestle on pilings so a crane could move over the water.

J. Fletcher Creamer & Son, Inc., Hackensack, is a full-service, multi-faceted contracting company serving the business community, government agencies and utilities throughout the continental United States. It is ranked 19th on the Top 400 list, up from 225th a year earlier, with $306.2 million in revenue. It has more than $270 million in new work on the books and is 12th largest on the NJ listing of contractors.

J. Fletcher Creamer & Son has entered into a joint venture with Joseph M. Sanzari to form Creamer-Sanzari, A joint Venture (CSJV) and has been working on a large portion of the underground construction of the massive Meadowlands Xanadu project. The work CSJV has been tackling ranges from the filling of wetlands and construction of temporary bridges and parking lots to structural foundations and the installation of underground utilities.

Martin Downs, project manager for CSJV on the Xanadu work, says some 1,300 14-inch (150-ton capacity) piles and 180 8-inch (60-ton) piles were driven into the Meadowlands site. The utility portion of the job spans the four buildings on the south and east sides of Continental Arena and incorporates some 110 storm structures, 10,000 feet of storm pipes, 34 sanitary structures, 5,500 feet of sanitary piles, 2,000 feet of water services and 19,000 lineal feet of electrical conduit.

Downs says that a detailed coordination program and an advanced communications system between workers made it possible "to achieve gratifying production rates." Carefully planned excavation of foundations allowed for an average of 60 piles to be driven daily by two pile-driving rigs.

"Concrete has been poured at a steady rate of over 200 cubic yards per day, allowing us to average over 1,000 cubic yards of concrete a week," he explains. "Caps were poured and stripped in most cases within a day, allowing areas to be completed and turned around in days instead of weeks." He says Sangle Consultants, Inc. and Railroad Construction Company, Paterson, provided valuable support as the major subcontractors for the project.

The overall Xanadu project, according to the developers, will involve 60 miles of power cable, over 20,000 light fixtures, 135 miles of technology cabling, 100,000 cubic yards of concrete, 7,000 pipe piles totaling over 350,000 feet of piles and 8,000 parking spaces.

Although J. Fletcher Creamer specializes in the installation of underground transmission lines for communications, cable TV, electric, gas and water systems, it also undertakes numerous other projects that come under the broad heading of "heavy and highway construction." Among its specialties are rock excavation, highway construction, pile driving, bridges, dams, demolition, cleaning and lining of water mains, boring, jacking and tunneling.

Barr & Barr, Inc., New York, which has New Jersey operations based in Franklin Lakes and Toms River, moved up on the Top 400 list from 226th to 198th, with $302.7 million in revenue. It is 13th on NJB's list and has $445.7 million in new contracts signed.

The year 2007 has represented far more than "business as usual" for Barr & Barr, Inc. It is the 80th anniversary of its founding. With a host of landmark projects just completed or on the radar screen for the near future, Barr & Barr's New Jersey book of business is approaching $300 million.

"We have performed successfully in New Jersey for more than two decades and today the state has become a thriving centerpiece of our business growth," observes Glenn Kiefer, senior executive vice-president of Barr & Barr.

The Barr & Barr benchmark of quality has been notably inscribed on more than 20 distinguished projects at Princeton University since 1982. Barr & Barr Executive Vice President Keith Stanisce enthusiastically underscores new jobs there that have even heightened the character of its project resume through 2007 and beyond.

For one example, Stanisce points to the 100,000 square-foot multilevel Peter Lewis Science Library to be completed in 2008. "It's a phenomenal building that will turn heads and impress even magazine covers," he declares. The structure, with a distinctive glass and customized metal exterior, is designed by the acclaimed architect Frank Gehry of Los Angeles.

Another university project is the 46,000 square-foot Operational Research and Financing Engineering Building (ORFE). With foundation work underway, the structural steel building, with an extraordinary aluminum-glazed and unique curtain wall facade exterior, is designed by architect Fred Fisher of Los Angeles. When completed next year, the ORFE facility will host studies and research for world-impacting economic issues, Stanisce notes.

The Barr & Barr executive vice president says another major job on the horizon at the university is a 200,000 square-foot Neuroscience and Psychology Building Complex designed by architect Jose Rafael Moneo Vallies of Spain. Preconstruction services by Barr & Barr are already activated with actual construction scheduled to start during the first quarter of 2009. Completion is targeted for early 2012.

Also in Princeton, but unrelated to the university, is construction of the three-story 20,000 square-foot addition for the Institute for Advanced Study. The existing facility is devoted to theoretical biology study. Completion is on target for the end of this year. Pelli Clarke Pelli of New York City is the architect. Stanisce says the structural steel addition is clad in attractive German-made terra-cotta finish, emphasized by clay tile components in red-tinted earth tone color.

In nearby Trenton, Barr & Barr is conducting preconstruction programs for a 100,000 square-foot expansion of Capital Health System's Fuld Campus Hospital. Construction is to be launched in June of next year. It is on track for completion in 2010. The design was a joint effort between Array Architects of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania; and HKS of Dallas, Texas.

Another star among Barr & Barr's healthcare testimonials was cast earlier in the year with the completion of the $43-million Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at Basking Ridge. The 85,000 square foot facility, designed by EwingCole Architects of Philadelphia, was acclaimed as a "New Good Neighbor" Award winner by The New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA) and this magazine.

In Toms River, Barr & Barr will wrap up two separate jobs at Community Medical Center during the first quarter of 2008. The Emergency Department expansion to 90,000 square feet steps up as the largest unit of its kind in New Jersey. A Surgical Services Department renovation will also be done.

Also completed this year was the state-of-the-art Homer Stryker Center, a 2-story, 40,000 square-foot free-standing building. Chuck Tatosian, assistant vice president, was Barr & Barr's project manager for the job which complements StrYker Orthopaedics' existing 500,000 square-foot Mahwah campus. This giant, mixed-use project houses research, design, manufacturing and corporate offices under one roof. The extraordinary complex on 48-acres was awarded "New Good Neighbor" honors by NJBIA just a few years ago.

Tatosian notes proudly that the new construction project, scheduled for 12 months, was completed three months early and came in under budget. Extensive site work also had to overcome difficult terrain, he added. The attractive building is enhanced by a curved curtain wall exterior in concert with thin brick systems and metal wall panels. Kevin C. Gore of Palisades Park was the architect.

Hunter Roberts Construction Group, Bedminster, ranks 215th on the "Top 400 Contractors" with $280.7 million in revenue. The firm has a whopping $774.5 million in new contracts and is 14th largest among New Jersey contractors.

The firm is a general contractor and construction manager serving New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, New England and the Carolinas in a variety of fields, including commercial, corporate interiors, education, healthcare, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, residential and sports.

It made headlines recently when it was awarded the contract to provide pre-construction services for the New York jets New Training Facility on a 26-acre site in Florham Park, which had been the former Exxon Research Center. The Exxon site is being developed by the Gale-Rockefeller Group. Hunter Roberts will build a two-story campus building with training facilities and administration headquarters for the jets. There will be an indoor field and four outdoor fields (three natural turf and one artificial turf) ' In the second stage, Hunter Roberts will provide construction management services. The complex is to be ready by June 2008.

Mark Yeager, president of Gale Real Estate Services, says a $90-million Marriott Renaissance Club Sport Hotel with 250 rooms and a 70,000 square-foot sports club will be built on a portion of the former ExxonMobil site, near the Jets training center. It is expected to be ready by the summer of 2009. A 100,000 square-foot sports rehabilitation center, to be run by Morristown Memorial Hospital, is also destined for the overall 423-acre site.

Another recent Hunter Roberts undertaking is the $72.8million Village at Newark, which houses an 812-bed residence hall for students in the state's largest city. Being developed privately by American Campus Communities, Austin, Texas, it is designed to relieve the city's inadequate housing options for students. The Village at Newark will have three concrete structures: a 6-story, 100,486 square-foot unit; a 13-story, 177,289 square-foot tower; and a 355-space, 126,000 square-foot parking garage. The three units frame an internal, landscaped courtyard that opens to the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Robert F. "Rob" Barbera, vice president and general manager of the Hunter Roberts Bedminster office, says the set-up for the village required extensive planning. "The amenities design underscores the importance of mechanical, plumbing and electrical coordination early on," he explains.

In another project, the firm is providing construction management and general contracting services for the Kennedy Memorial Hospital's exterior skin replacement and infrastructure upgrades at its Stratford site, which is due for completion in September 2009.

The firm is providing Georgian Court University with preconstruction services for its proposed 66,000 square-foot Wellness Center at its Lakewood campus. To be completed by January 2008, it will feature a basketball gym, locker rooms, dance studios and a sports administration center. The site improvement includes two soccer fields, two softball fields, six tennis courts and extensive storm water management.

This year, Hunter Roberts provided the contracting services for Lincoln Park Municipal Facilities, which involved four separate buildings. The main site contains: a 2-story, 35,000 square-foot municipal building; a 1-story, 9,500 square-foot building for Fire Hose Co. No. 1 to house five fire engines; and a 1-story, 9,000 square-foot first aid squad station. The secondary site has a 1story, 9,500 square-foot Fire Hose Co. No. 2 building for five fire engines.

Hunter Roberts provided the general contracting services to RexCorp. Realty LLC for a two-story underground garage addition at One Giralda Farms, Madison, It added 104,000 square feet of parking to service the existing office building. RexCorp owns three office buildings on 154 acres within Giralda Farms and plans to construct 750,000 square feet more of office buildings as market conditions allow.

Joseph Jingoli & Son, Inc (JJS), Lawrenceville, Tanks 222nd on the Top 400 national list and No. 15 on the NJB one, with $277.3 million in revenue. It has about SW million on its books for future work. Since 1922, JJS has been a leader in the construction industry, serving public and private entities with a wide range of services.

With at staff of more than 300 professionals and support personnel, JJS is a fourth-generation family firm, headed by CEO Joseph R. Jingoli, Jr. and CFO and COO Michael B. Jingoli.

JJS specializes in utility infrastructure services, but also works in other fields, including corrections, education, healthcare, office, retail and entertainment projects. Its subsidiaries and affiliates include DCO Energy, Jingoli Properties, DEVCOR and JJS Management Services.

The firm constructed the $50-million Child Health Institute in New Brunswick for DEVCO and the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey. Last year, it completed Children's Specialized Hospital in New Brunswick. The $58-million project is connected to the Bristol Myers-Squibb Children's Hospital, adjacent to the New Children's Health Institute.

ABB Lummus Global, Bloomfield, this year celebrates a century of excellence. Founded in 1907 by Walter E. Lummis in Boston, the firm has burgeoned into a worldwide engineering firm with offices in 87 nations and operations in over 100 countries. It provides the latest in advanced processes technologies, project management, engineering, procurement and construction-related services to the hydrocarbon process industries.

ABB Lummus is ranked 230th on the 400 list and 16th on NJB's list, with $264 million in revenue and a phenomenal $1.18 billion in new contracts. An overwhelming amount of its work is off-shore.

The Railroad Construction Family of Companies (RCC), Paterson, is a general contractor providing services for all construction needs. In 2006, it completed its 80th year of service. It handles design, construction, rehabilitation, electrical and mechanical services, steel fabrication, heavy hauling and equipment, painting and restoration. A majority of its work is done in-house.

The RCC is ranked 356th on the ENR's Top 400 and 17th on our state listing, with $174 million in revenue. It has $125 million in signed contracts.

Today, the grandsons of Joseph Daloisio, Sr., who founded the firm in 1926, operate RCC. James J. Daloisio runs Railroad Construction Company of South Jersey, specializing in track work, and Alfonso Daloisio, Jr. orchestrates the Railroad Construction Family of Companies in cooperation with the executive committee.

RCC specializes in railroad work, site work, design, bridge and highway work. RCC Builders Inc. specializes in construction and rehabilitation of buildings. RCC Electric, Inc. does electrical rehabilitation and construction activities, while RCC Design, Inc. performs planning, design and survey work. RCC Materials & Equipment performs track maintenance in the North Carolina area, where its track-related equipment manufacturing operation is based.

The firm has extensive experience in the construction of toll booths across the region. It has completed projects for the Port Authority of NY & NJ and numerous state agencies. Both permanent and temporary structures have been built at various locales, including the Outerbridge Crossing and Lincoln Tunnel and at various sites along the Garden State Parkway, New Jersey Turnpike and Atlantic City Expressway.

March Associates, Inc., Wayne, is 369th of the 400 national contractors and the 18th largest of New Jersey firms, with $163.5 million in revenues. It has $174.9 million in new orders. Not bad for a company that was started by Louis D. March in 1986 with a folding table and chair in a small room above a camera shop. One of the fastestgrowing construction firms in the Northeast, March is noted for the "Big Boxes" it develops for such firms as Target, Dicks, The Home Depot, Lowe's, Whole Foods and Bed Bath & Beyond, among myriad others.

Among its recent projects are: The Promenade, a $100-million residential complex in Edgewater; Riverview @ City Place, Edgewater, a $5.7 million job for K. Hovnanian Enterprises; 1100 Adams Street, Hoboken, an $11-million condominium enterprise; and a $12.5-million housing complex for Tarragon Realty in Hoboken.

The company estimates that it has completed more than 1 million square feet of interior construction for commercial clients. It also handles inspections and serves as a liaison with appropriate lending institutions, supplying cost estimates, construction draw-down schedules and the like.

Terminal Construction Corporation, Wood-Ridge, has been around for more than six decades and established itself as a leading construction company. It is a general contractor that has been involved in a number of public works projects for governmental agencies, which include underground tunnels, hospitals, schools, military installations, post office complexes, office buildings, sewage treatment plants, transportation projects, water pollution control facilities, residential construction and sports and entertainment venues.

Terminal is No. 389 on the national Top 400 Contractors list, with $150 million in revenue and $220 million in new contracts. It is 19th among New Jersey contractors.

The corporation has master planned, designed and constructed a number of very substantial industrial parks and developments, and has developed a number of high-rise luxury apartment buildings, parking garages and computer centers. In all of these endeavors, Terminal has directly provided or helped to coordinate all the aspects of construction, including process piping, reinforced concrete, electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating, air-conditioning and mechanical systems.

In New Jersey, Terminal is associated with such recent projects as the Rowan School of Engineering, station finishes at the Secaucus Transfer Station, and the Psychiatric Medical Center at the Lyons Veterans Hospital.

Completing our list at 20th in New Jersey and 398th of the national 400 contractors is VRH Construction Corp. Englewood, with $146 million in revenues and $145 million in new contracts.

A privately-held company, VRH was founded in 1958 and next year will mark its Golden Anniversary. It has grown into one of the top construction and management firms in the New Jersey-New York metro area. It boasts a single project bonding capacity of $150 million and an aggregate of $500 million to handle any sized assignment.

It did the work on the 250,000 square-foot FIS Terminal at Newark Liberty International Airport, which involved upgraded electrical and mechanical systems, renovating of several lobbies, baggage handling, the concourse, signals and escalators.

It built the 2-story, 30,000 square-foot medical and lab facility for Erika, Inc. in Rockleigh. For the Ramapo Hills Board of Education it completed a 19,000 square-foot addition for labs, classrooms and lecture hall.

A unique undertaking was the installation of enclosures around the suspension cables of the George Washington Bridge and the placement of a dehumidifying system within each of the four enclosures.

All 20 firms enjoy a great repeat business with clients for meeting target deadlines on time and under budget. Collectively, they illustrate the capabilities of New Jersey's construction and construction management industry.