El Sol Contracting and Construction Corporation

El Sol Contracting and Construction Corporation is a heavy civil contractor based in Maspeth, Queens, incorporated in New York in 1980. The firm builds and rehabilitates bridges, roadways and marine structures for public owners across the New York metropolitan area, and it works regularly as a joint venture partner on large agency contracts. El Sol is part of the joint venture replacing the deck on the 1924 Bear Mountain Bridge under a $93.8 million New York State Bridge Authority contract, and it holds work under the Port Authority’s $2 billion Restoring the George program at the George Washington Bridge. It’s a registered federal contractor and runs a workforce in the low hundreds.

El Sol runs as a family-owned firm, and the owners take a hands-on role from the bidding process through final acceptance. Peak-season staffing sits at roughly 250 full-time employees, about 50 of them supervisory, and the company self-performs around 65 percent of its work rather than subcontracting it out, which matters on urban bridge jobs where staging space and lane closures make coordination the hardest part of the schedule.

Individual contracts have ranged from about $1 million to more than $250 million. The client list is almost entirely public agencies: NYSDOT, NYCDOT, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, MTA Bridges and Tunnels, and NYC Transit Authority. Over four decades that has meant work on the Brooklyn Bridge, the Verrazzano-Narrows, the RFK Triboro, the Throgs Neck and the George Washington Bridge, plus every major highway in the New York City area.

The firm groups its portfolio into design-build, major bridges, viaduct rehabilitation and transit rehabilitation. Design-build assignments include the Manhattan Central Business District Tolling Program, a safety fence at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the Carlls Straight Path Bridge, deck replacements for three bridges in NYSDOT Region 11, the Hunts Point Interstate Access Improvement Project, and the best-value Van Wyck Expressway capacity and access improvements serving JFK.

Long employee tenure is something the firm points to directly. Key staff have stayed for extended stretches, which on repeat agency work means crews that already know the structure and the owner’s process.

Safety is led by a corporate health and safety director with a staff of safety professionals, built on a stated zero-accident, zero-injury position that treats every incident as preventable. The company also uses Arrowsight video auditing technology on its sites to support safety, quality and compliance performance.

The office is at 4306 54th Road in Maspeth.