Engineering News-Record released its ENR 2020 Top 600 Specialty Contractors Oct. 15 and, once again, AWCI members are heavily featured. Overall, 17 of the top 20 wall and ceiling contractors are AWCI members, led by Performance Contracting Group of Lenexa, Kan., which came in #15 overall, KHS&S Contractors of Tampa, Fla. (76th overall), Standard Drywall of Lakeside, Calif. (77th overall) and Western Partitions, Inc. of Wilsonville, Ore. (91st overall).
While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the industry in different ways, many among the top 600 did not see staffing as an immediate problem. ENR quoted Michael Cannon, CEO of AWCI member KHS&S Contractors–East Coast (Tampa, Fla.) as stating, “[W]ith higher unemployment, the quantity of available trade employees is not an issue; however, finding well-qualified workers is an ongoing challenge.”
The complete list of ENR’s Top 20 Firms in the wall and ceiling category are as follows (an asterisk [*] denotes AWCI members):
- Performance Contracting Group, Inc.*
- KHS&S Contractors*
- Standard Drywall Inc.*
- Western Partitions Inc.*
- Nevell Group Inc.*
- The Raymond Group*
- Precision Walls Inc.*
- California Drywall Co.*
- Baker Triangle*
- Acousti Engineering Co. of Florida
- National Construction Enterprises Inc.*
- Jacobson & Company Inc.*
- Level 5 Inc.*
- Philadelphia D&M
- F.L. Crane & Sons Inc.*
- New England Finish Systems LLC
- The Berg Group LLC*
- T.J. Wies Contracting Inc.*
- Bayside Interiors Inc.*
- Midwest Drywall Co. Inc.*
The full list of the top specialty contractors is at www.enr.com (subscription required).