W.M. Jordan Company

W.M. Jordan Company is a general contractor and construction manager founded in 1958 and headquartered in Newport News, Virginia. The employee-owned firm builds across the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, with a portfolio weighted toward higher education, healthcare, and civic work. It serves as construction manager on Old Dominion University’s $250 million Engineering and Arts Building in Norfolk, a five-story facility that houses the university’s engineering and arts colleges under one roof. W.M. Jordan pairs preconstruction and design-build delivery with self-perform capability, and it’s a recurring name on institutional projects throughout Virginia and the Carolinas.

W.M. Jordan Company was founded in Newport News, Virginia in 1958 by Robert T. Lawson and William M. Jordan, on a deliberately simple premise: separate but clear responsibilities and mutual trust, with Bob running the job sites and Bill running the office. The Lawson family still controls and manages the company today.

Now one of the larger builders in its region, W.M. Jordan works across Virginia and the Carolinas for both private and government clients. Its services span construction management, design-build, and general contracting, extended by an in-house real estate development arm, virtual construction (BIM) capabilities, and green building expertise. That range lets the firm act as builder, construction manager, or development partner depending on how a project is structured.

For owners in the Mid-Atlantic weighing a large commercial or institutional build, W.M. Jordan offers a long-tenured, family-managed contractor with more than six decades of regional work and the technology and development services to support complex delivery.