Hensel Phelps

Hensel Phelps is one of the largest employee-owned general contractors and construction managers in the United States, founded in 1937 and headquartered in Greeley, Colorado. The firm builds across aviation, government, healthcare, commercial, and transportation work, and it runs projects from preconstruction through facility management. Aviation is a signature market: Hensel Phelps has delivered and expanded terminals at airports nationwide and is a construction partner on Nashville International’s New Horizon program. The company self-performs concrete and structural work rather than brokering every trade, which gives it tighter control over schedule on complex jobs. Employee ownership shapes a culture built around long-tenured project teams.

Hensel Phelps is one of the largest employee-owned general contractors and construction managers in the United States, founded in 1937 and headquartered in Greeley, Colorado. Employee ownership shapes how the company operates, since the people building the work hold a stake in its outcome, and its national scale is reflected in a workforce that numbers in the several hundreds and beyond. That structure tends to align the interests of the builder and the finished project in a way an outside contractor may not.
The full delivery cycle
The firm’s services span the whole life of a project: preconstruction, general contracting, construction management, design-build and facility management. That range lets Hensel Phelps stay involved from the earliest planning through construction and into operating the finished building, rather than stepping away at handover and leaving the owner to sort out what comes next.
Preconstruction is where much of the value is set. Working through budgets, schedules and constructability before ground breaks tends to prevent the expensive surprises that otherwise surface once a project is underway and far harder to fix. Design-build takes the integration a step further by putting design and construction under a single contract, which can compress schedules and give an owner one point of accountability for the result instead of a split between designer and builder.
Facility management on the back end means the company can keep supporting a building after it opens, closing the loop between how something is built and how it actually runs in service. Nearly nine decades after its founding, Hensel Phelps continues to operate nationwide as an employee-owned builder working across the United States on projects of significant scale. Across preconstruction, construction and long-term facility management, the firm is built to stay with a project from concept to daily operation, with employee ownership keeping its people invested in how it turns out.