Salt Lake City-based Big-D Construction landed the top spot in this year's Mountain States ranking of the Intermountain area's largest general contractors with an impressive $555.2 million in 2011 revenue, pushing the firm up from its No. 6 spot a year ago.
Much of that surge can be attributed to the firm's role in building the state's largest ongoing project, the $1-billion-plus Utah Data Center, but it is also evidence of a contractor that has found success during the downturn and slow recovery by sticking to its principles and serving its longtime customer base. "Our strategy remains the same; one-off opportunities don't interest us that much," says Jack Livingood, Big-D CEO. "We grow and recover with our customers."