The Southwest construction and development industry is surging again, according to ENR Southwest’s Top Contractors survey, and executives from some of the survey’s participating firms say the region will remain active in the near future as robotics and other innovations continue to change the industry.
According to this year’s survey, the top 10 firms combined to produce 2018 Southwest revenue of $5.6 billion. That’s an increase of about $1.3 billion from last year’s results. Revenue from all of this year’s survey participants soared to $11.2 billion in 2018. That’s up from $7.6 billion in 2017, $6.79 billion in 2016 and $6.46 billion in 2015. The number of participants in this year’s survey, however, increased by one, and a newly participating firm appeared among the top 10 largest firms.