T.A. Loving Company turned 100 in 2025. Taylor Abbitt Loving started the business in Goldsboro, North Carolina in 1925 building railroad bridges, and the headquarters hasn’t moved. Today the firm runs two sides: a building group handling healthcare, higher education, K-12, athletic and life sciences projects, and a civil group covering bridges, water and wastewater plants and utility lines. It also has offices in Raleigh, Greenville and Wilmington. The company’s largest job on its own timeline is the $144 million Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, finished in 2008. In Raleigh, it’s one of three partners in the T.A. Loving-Blum-Metcon team serving as CM/GC on the $300 million Lenovo Center Renovation.
Two practices, four offices, and named contacts for each
The structure is the thing worth knowing before contacting T.A. Loving: the company runs a building group and a civil infrastructure group, and the contact page staffs them separately. Ken Gerrard handles business development for building. Scott Wynne is preconstruction director, with building estimating split between Goldsboro and Raleigh, where John Witcher covers it. On the civil side, Bill Ryder, DBIA Associate, handles business development for civil infrastructure, and Chris Myers, DBIA, is vice president of civil infrastructure and collaborative delivery lead. Civil estimating is further split, with Michael Cox on treatment plants and pump stations and a separate estimator for water and sewer lines.
The DBIA designations on the civil leads matter, because design-build is one of the four delivery methods the company offers, alongside general contracting, construction management and construction management at risk. The company describes its approach as collaborative integrated project delivery, aimed at holding schedule and budget while reducing risk.
The addresses, and the project mix
The corporate headquarters is at 400 Patetown Road in Goldsboro, with offices at 211 S Jarvis Street, Suite 104 in Greenville; 3600 Glenwood Avenue, Suite 150 in Raleigh; and 209 N. 5th Avenue in Wilmington. Work is described as running across the Southeastern United States for university, hospital, K-12, municipal, state, county and federal clients.
Nine market categories are published, which is a better guide than a services list: bridge and heavy civil, healthcare, higher education, athletic facilities, K-12 education, life sciences and laboratory, civil conveyance systems, water and wastewater plants, and civic and municipal.
The current and recent project list gives the clearest picture of where the two groups actually work. On the building side: Morrisville High School for Wake County Public Schools; UNC Roper Hall, a medical education building in Chapel Hill; the Troxler Agricultural Sciences Center in Raleigh; the UNC Kenan Football Center expansion and renovation; the Loudermilk Center for Excellence at UNC Chapel Hill; UNC Health Johnston Endoscopy Center; the Main Campus Student Center and TowneBank Tower at East Carolina University; and Wayne UNC Health Surgery Center in Goldsboro. On the civil side: Martin County Water Treatment Plant, Northeast Brunswick Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brunswick County, and the Pea Island Bridge. Five energy-positive K-12 schools for Horry County Schools sit across both.
The company describes itself as one of the nation’s consistently top-ranked 400 contractors and is marking its first century, with a dedicated 100 Years section on its site. Its four core values are integrity, safety — stated as safe work or no work — excellence, and client advocacy. Instagram and LinkedIn are linked from its own pages; no headcount is published.
