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Type | Private |
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Industry | Construction |
Founded | 2000 as BL Harbert International |
Headquarters | Birmingham Alabama, USA |
Key people | Billy L. Harbert, President and Chief Executive Officer R. Alan Hall, Chief Financial Officer |
Revenue | ![]() |
Number of employees | 8,000 (2021) |
Website | www.blharbert.com |
B.L. Harbert International, LLC, is a construction company based in Birmingham, Alabama, that was founded in 2000 by Billy L. Harbert, as a division of Harbert Corporation. B.L. Harbert has two main operating divisions, the U.S. Division and the International Division. The U.S. Division is further divided into the following divisions: commercial, healthcare, federal, and civil/industrial. They undertake the preconstruction, general construction, construction management, and design-build services of office buildings, condominiums, institutional buildings, healthcare facilities, churches, industrial facilities, water and wastewater treatment plants.
BL Harbert employed over 8,000 people around the world as of 2021. [1] Much of the firm's business is in the form of federal government contracts for embassy construction projects abroad, the largest of these in cumulative contract value being U.S. Embassy Beirut ($613.8 million), U.S. Embassy New Delhi ($563.5 million), U.S. Consulate Erbil ($433.2 million), and Guatemala City ($288.5 million). [2] In 2019 the company was ranked the 90th largest contractor in the country by Engineering News-Record. [3] They are also one of the top 100 contractors for the US government.
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