Despite the dismal economy, electrical and electronics contractor M.C. Dean of Dulles, Va., shot to the top of the rankings this year. The firm’s substantial increase in revenue was largely a result of multiyear public and private work booked before the recession.
“We’re in some pretty strong markets, and we have a big design-build capacity,” says CEO Bill Dean, whose grandfather Marion Caleb Dean founded the company in 1949. “We are very competitive on large, complex projects. Fortunately, they still exist, but they are supercompetitive.”