Clark Construction

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Clark Construction Group, LLC
Company type Private
IndustryConstruction
Founded1906;119 years ago (1906)
FounderGeorge Hyman
Headquarters Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Key people
Robert D. Moser, Jr., president and chief executive officer; A. James Clark
Services
Revenue$6.5 billion (2022)
Number of employees
4,200
Subsidiaries
Website www.clarkgroup.com

Clark Construction, also referred to as Clark Construction Group, LLC, is a construction firm headquartered in McLean, Virginia, [1] and founded in 1906. The company had 2018 annual revenue of more than $5 billion, [2] and is one of the largest commercial and civil contractors in the country. [2] Some projects include Capital One Arena [3] and L'Enfant Plaza. [2]

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History

The company traces its founding to the George Hyman Construction Company, an excavating company, in 1906. Business boomed, as it initially had the only steam shovel in Washington. [4] The company began doing construction work in 1923; its first such contract was with Wheatley Junior High School. The company was involved in numerous military construction projects during World War II. [5]

Hyman died in 1970 and was succeeded by his nephew Benjamin Rome. [5]

In 1969, A. James Clark bought the company from the Hyman family [6] and oversaw major growth including one of its earliest projects L'Enfant Plaza in Washington. Clark formed a separate company in 1977 for non-union projects in the Washington area (Hyman legally could not bid on such projects). [6] In 1995, Clark merged construction companies of Hyman, Shirley Contracting Company, Guy F. Atkinson Construction and OMNI to form Clark Construction. [5]

In 2016, a year after Clark died, firm management bought the company from its parent Clark Enterprises, leaving the parent to concentrate on its private equity, financial and real estate markets. [6]

Subsidiaries

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