PURPOSE, MISSION & VALUES
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to be the most skilled builder in America.
By celebrating and investing in skills, we seek to provide exceptional results for our clients, create rewarding career opportunities for our employee-owners and strengthen and support our industry and communities.
What Drives Us
These are the traits that define who we are and how we approach our work.
Skill means excellence in the office and in the field. It is mastery of everything it takes to build successful projects.
Grit is our strength of character. It is our ability to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
Purpose is our deepest motivation. It is our commitment to helping our communities prosper.
OUR PURPOSE
Our purpose is to build environments where our clients, employee-owners and communities prosper.
Read 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ’s Corporate Social Responsibility Report
And learn why we say 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ is Build on Purpose.Â
Read about our efforts to create prosperity for all stakeholders: our clients and other valued business partners, our employee-owners and their families, and the communities and environment in which we operate.
PROSPERITY: FOR OUR COMMUNITIES
For the communities where we work, it means the highest quality in the places where people live, learn, work, travel, heal. It also means help for those in need through volunteering and the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ Foundation, which has given millions to local causes.
Community InvolvementPROSPERITY: FOR EMPLOYEE-OWNERS
51¹ú²úÊÓƵ was a pioneer in profit-sharing, taking the first steps toward becoming an employee-owned company in 1965. Today, with 100 percent employee ownership, 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ ranks No. 49 on the NCEO’s list of the largest majority employee-owned companies.
Employee OwnershipOUR VALUES
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Integrity
Our business is built on integrity, fairness and honesty—qualities at the foundation of every project. We say what we are going to do, and we do it.
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Quality
We are relentlessly focused on executing to the highest standards for our clients and communities. We give our very best on every task we perform.
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Safety
Safety is an intrinsic part of our culture and the reason that 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ has twice been named the nation’s safest construction company by the Associated General Contractors of America.
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Accountability
We guide our business with clear communication, expectations and data-driven decisions. We understand how our actions affect the company’s future, and we take ownership of our successes and our failures.
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Service
We go out of our way to advance our profession and improve people’s lives in the communities where we live and work. It is both a responsibility and a privilege to help create a lasting, positive impact.
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Innovation
We strive every day to better our tools, our processes and ourselves to build better. As our clients evolve, we pioneer new approaches to meet and anticipate their needs.
OUR CULTURE
The sum of our beliefs and behaviors, the defining factor behind our success.
As 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ employee-owners, we know who we are, where our company is going, and what’s important. 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ has a distinct order and discipline to our work, and this enables us to execute at a higher level. Because we have incentives to perform as both individuals and teams, we hold each other to a higher standard for our actions and results. Together, we build successful projects because we build diverse, cohesive teams of committed people. Relationships based on trust and work built on purpose are what continue to set 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ culture apart.