The de Moya Group

The de Moya Group is a heavy-civil contractor based in the Miami area that builds highways, bridges and drainage for Florida’s transportation agencies. The firm has grown into one of South Florida’s larger civil builders, taking on complex, congested urban jobs. It’s part of the Archer Western and de Moya joint venture reconstructing Miami’s I-395, SR 836 and I-95 corridor and its sculptural Signature Bridge. de Moya self-performs earthwork, drainage and structures, and concentrates its work across Florida.

The de Moya Group traces back to 1986, when Armando and Alisa de Moya ran the business out of a one-car garage alongside brothers Al and Jorge Juan; its first job was a $62,000 turn lane for the Florida Department of Transportation. The company describes itself as a family business and notes that it has never laid off an employee for lack of work across its history.

What distinguishes the contractor is how much it self-performs. Its crews handle earthwork, drainage, roadway base, asphalt paving, concrete paving, retaining walls, major and minor bridges, and concrete and steel piling in-house. The firm also produces its own asphalt and runs a prestress and precast concrete operation that turns out 18-, 24- and 30-inch piling, 36- to 78-inch Florida I-Beams, MSE wall panels and Type K temporary barrier walls, much of it feeding its own large interchange work. It owns more than 400 pieces of equipment and still operates the first excavator it bought in 1987, now with over 30,000 hours on it.

The portfolio has scaled from small drainage subcontracts to some of Florida’s largest design-build interchanges: the $124 million NW 25th Street Viaduct in Miami-Dade, completed more than 120 days early; the $559 million SR 826/SR 836 joint venture carrying forty-seven bridges including segmental flyovers; and the $134 million I-4 widening in Volusia County. Work reaches across Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Indian River and Volusia counties, with design-build pursuits extending to Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando and the Treasure Coast.