George Harms Construction Company

George Harms Construction has been building New Jersey’s hard infrastructure since 1960. The Farmingdale-based heavy-civil contractor takes on jobs most firms won’t touch, from deep foundations and bridges to tunnels and marine work, running more than $100 million in projects a year on a bonding capacity north of $700 million. The company drew the initial construction package for NJ Transit’s Raritan River Bridge replacement, part of the agency’s post-Sandy resilience program. Family-run and privately held, it has built a reputation across the Mid-Atlantic for complex, self-performed civil work where schedule and ground conditions leave little room for error.

George Harms Construction Company builds the infrastructure most people use without thinking about it. From its base in Farmingdale, the New Jersey heavy-civil contractor takes on highway construction, bridge construction and road construction, along with train station construction and the broader category of heavy civil infrastructure, the roads, crossings and transit facilities that carry a state’s daily movement.
Heavy-civil work is a distinct discipline within construction, closer to public infrastructure than to buildings, and it calls for the equipment, engineering and scale that this kind of contractor is built around. A highway or a bridge is engineered to carry heavy loads for decades, and a train station has to keep functioning while thousands of people pass through it. Founded in 1964, George Harms has spent decades on exactly that class of project across New Jersey.
The mix of project types is worth noting on its own. A firm equipped for both bridges and train stations is set up for the interconnected nature of transportation work, where a road project can involve a crossing and a transit job can touch the roadway around it. Handling those under one contractor keeps the pieces of an infrastructure project aligned rather than divided among firms that each see only their part.
With a workforce in the 51-200 range, the company has the depth to staff large, long-running public jobs while keeping the specialised focus that heavy-civil work rewards. For the agencies and owners who commission highways, bridges, roads and transit projects, that combination of tenure and focus is what a New Jersey heavy-civil general contractor is meant to bring.
Tenure counts in heavy-civil work, where a contractor’s record on past highways and bridges shapes which public projects it can win next. Six decades in New Jersey, backed by a workforce large enough for major jobs, is the kind of foundation those transportation and transit contracts tend to require.