Contractor of the Year
Turner Industries Named 2026 ENR Texas Contractor of the Year
From Gulf Coast mainstay to multi-sector builder, the firm expands into carbon capture, life sciences and nuclear fabrication
Turner Industries’ new Port Allen, La., fabrication facilities support a strategic expansion into advanced energy and reactor projects.
Turner Industries is ENR's 2026 Contractor of the Year for the Texas region. With operations spanning Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Mississippi, the 100-percent family-owned industrial contractor has been in continuous operation for 65 years.
The firm safely logged 45 million work hours across more than 400 job sites last year at a 0.24 total recordable incident rate, while pushing well beyond its refining-and-petrochemicals roots.
Among its marquee 2025 projects, Turner self-performed all construction on ExxonMobil's first carbon capture and sequestration facility in Convent, La., navigating a mid-project design change and a Port of Houston piping delay to finish on time and on budget with no lost-time accidents.
That same industrial muscle carried Turner into new sectors: a $765 million chlor-alkali modernization for OxyChem in La Porte, Texas, and a Tesla robotics and conveyor installation in Austin completed on a hard three-week deadline.
The company didn't just take on bigger jobs—it moved into new markets. Turner built a dedicated hygienic piping fabrication bay at its Port Allen, La., facility to serve the pharmaceutical and life sciences sector, and is fabricating cooling modules for a Hunton data center project in Childress, Texas.
Turner is also expanding its footprint, with a new Salt Lake City hub, growth in Pensacola, Fla., and new nuclear-grade fabrication facilities in Port Allen and New Iberia, La.—positioning the firm for the next wave of reactor projects nationwide.
Turner's Texas region footprint remains anchored by the Gulf Coast. A full profile of Turner Industries' award-winning year will appear in ENR Texas & Southeast's Aug. 10 issue.
