Bryan Construction

Bryan Construction is a Colorado Springs general contractor that’s spread up and down the Front Range, with offices in Centennial and Fort Collins plus a Huntsville, Ala., outpost tied to its federal work. The firm builds schools, healthcare, commercial and government projects and runs a facility services group on the side. Its newest headline job is Aurora HEART Health Sciences High School, an 89,000-square-foot magnet school for Aurora Public Schools across Peoria Street from the Anschutz Medical Campus. CannonDesign drew it, and the program’s full of simulation X-ray rooms, operating rooms and ambulance bays. Bryan’s got until August 2027 to turn a field of expansive clay into a working teaching hospital for teenagers.

Employee ownership is the structural fact that shapes the rest of this listing. Bryan Construction is 100% employee-owned, ranked on the ENR Top 400 Contractors list, and has been at it for more than four decades — grown, by its own account, by staying out of opportunities rather than chasing them.

Scott Bryan started the company after working as a field engineer and project manager, and still runs it as CEO. The bench under him is long-tenured and mostly homegrown: President Brian Burns came up through the Facility Services Group with more than 20 years across operations, pre-construction, finance and risk; Vice President Brian Hogan built the federal group around a long working relationship with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Doug Woody joined in 2006 and rose from project manager to vice president; Brandon Orna joined in 2017 with 25 years in the industry. Kristi Rader became CFO in January 2026 after longtime CFO Vince Shoemaker retired.

The work divides into six focus areas that explain who hires them. Commercial construction covers offices, retail and healthcare. The Facility Services Group handles tenant improvement, expansion, restoration and renovation for owners who need to stay operating during the work. Multifamily runs from downtown Denver mixed-use to low-income housing in Buena Vista. Federal construction serves the Corps of Engineers, DoD, Coast Guard, Navy, GSA and National Guard. Secure facility construction serves aerospace and defense — the company states it is now a certified SCIF, the first within the Nooks ecosystem. An international group has worked in the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, including a Romania airport terminal and railhead.

A seventh line is PK-12, where the company emphasizes phased construction that keeps campuses safe and the academic calendar intact.

Offices: Colorado Springs headquarters on Tech Center Drive, plus Centennial, Fort Collins, and Huntsville, Alabama.