Faulconer Construction

Faulconer Construction is a Charlottesville, Virginia heavy civil and site contractor working across Virginia and North Carolina from its Old Ivy Road headquarters, a shop in Louisa and offices in Culpeper, Salem and Cary. The firm self-performs earthwork, site development, utilities, paving and bridge work on public and institutional projects, and takes on general contracting where the civil scope leads. It is currently the general contractor on the Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Virginia, working alongside Skanska USA as construction manager on the $350 million research building at Fontaine Research Park, which topped out in October 2025 after crews set close to 4,000 tons of structural steel.

The record goes back far enough to be infrastructure rather than portfolio. Faulconer completed the Sugar Hollow Reservoir in 1947 and it still supplies water to Charlottesville and Albemarle County. The firm also built the Route 250 bypass that took through traffic out of downtown Charlottesville, a road that changed how the city works.

The University of Virginia has been a constant. Five major projects in the 2000s alone, including the John Paul Jones Arena and the Darden School of Business expansion.

Expansion into North Carolina came out of a single job. After the Chaparral Steel plant project in Petersburg, Virginia in the 1990s the firm followed the work south and now runs offices in Cary, Concord, Jacksonville and Raleigh.

The self-performed scope is the core of the business: site development, grading, wet and dry utility installation, excavation and rock removal, erosion and sediment control, site concrete and hardscapes, foundation preparation, and heavy highway and road construction. Sectors run to military, education, transportation, energy, commercial and industrial, residential, healthcare and utilities.

Recent work illustrates the range within heavy civil. The Roanoke Amtrak platform for Norfolk Southern is rail infrastructure. Site development for Hub RTP, a 100-acre mixed-use development in Research Triangle Park, is horizontal work at development scale. Sitework for a new reactor at the North Anna Nuclear Power Station carries a regulatory regime most civil contractors never encounter.

Safety runs under a named program, TARGET ZERO, which the company says has drawn regional and national recognition. Equipment is maintained in-house at dedicated shops in Louisa and Raleigh, a meaningful commitment for a contractor whose margin depends on keeping its own fleet turning.