HITT Contracting

HITT Contracting started in 1937 as a family decorating business run out of a house in Arlington, Virginia, and now ranks among the ten largest general contractors in the United States. The firm is headquartered in Falls Church and works from 16 offices nationwide with more than 3,300 employees. Its work spans interior construction, commercial base building, higher education, life sciences and mission-critical data center projects. HITT is general contractor on the first phase of the JetZero manufacturing campus in Greensboro, North Carolina, the 150,000-square-foot North Carolina Composite Center that leads a $4.7 billion aerospace buildout at Piedmont Triad International Airport. The company opened a new Falls Church headquarters designed around an on-site research and materials testing hub.

Market coverage is what stands out when you look at how HITT is organized. The company groups its work into advanced manufacturing, government, healthcare, higher education, hospitality, industrial, law firms, life sciences, mission critical, mixed-use, multifamily, office and secure spaces. Alongside those markets sit three delivery practices, core and shell, repositioning, and tenant fit-outs, which is how one client can move from a ground-up building to a floor-by-floor refresh without changing contractor.

The office map runs coast to coast from the Fairview Park Drive headquarters. Southeast and mid-Atlantic: Richmond, Raleigh, Charleston and Atlanta. Northeast: Manhattan and Newark. Texas: Austin, Dallas and Houston. West and Southwest: Chandler for Phoenix, Albuquerque, El Segundo for Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose and Seattle. Florida is covered from Pembroke Pines. Work reaches into nearly every state, not only the metros holding an office.

Research and development is unusual for a contractor at this scale, and HITT treats it as a standing function rather than a side project. There is an R&D program with its own project portfolio, published studies of real-world construction industry trends, and Co|Lab, a dedicated facility built for exploring, testing and sharing new ideas. Sustainability is handled the same way, as a stated vision for the built environment rather than a per-project add-on, and sits alongside a corporate responsibility program with long-term goals for positive social change.

Safety is framed as a culture-of-care question and paired with a tools and technology group that develops advanced approaches for completing projects safely and efficiently on active sites.

Anyone approaching HITT from either direction will find the route published directly: a subcontractor path for trade partners, and a market-first enquiry path for owners who want to reach the right team. Careers, a news hub, and the leadership roster are all listed as well, with leadership split between a principal leadership team setting strategic direction and a senior leadership group of subject matter experts and operations leaders.