The bar for Mortenson Construction can never be set too high nor set by others working in the industry, as far as Dan Johnson, company president, is concerned. “We don’t really try to compare ourselves too many times to our competition,” he says. “We try to compare ourselves to what’s possible.”
What’s possible is a Minneapolis-based contractor working on exceedingly challenging, innovative projects right across the continent, and notably in the Midwest, where it has jumped to 11th in regional revenue from 17th and 25th the previous two years. Its current ranking is based on 2015 Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and Michigan revenue of $594.3 million; the firm also ranks among the top 10 in the commercial, health care and education sectors. These ranking and revenue figures don’t take into account results from Mortenson’s home state of Minnesota, which will officially join the ENR Midwest region in the new year.