Among the theories floated for this year’s lagging response by specialty contractors to ENR’s annual regional surveys is that those contractors have just been too busy working. Results from companies working in the Midwest certainly support that theory.
When the results did come in, the revenue numbers for specialty contractors working in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin showed increases across the board. The top 10 firms reported total revenue of about $3.31 billion in 2015, up 10.44% over the previous year. The revenue figure for the top 20 firms totaled more than $4.82 billion, up 11.31%.