Joseph A. Natoli Construction Corporation

Joseph A. Natoli founded the company in 1975, and it still operates from 293 Changebridge Road in Pine Brook, Morris County. Natoli is a general building contractor and construction manager working across public works, schools, healthcare, restoration, transportation, retail, industrial, sports and entertainment, worship and hotel projects. The firm is classified with the State of New Jersey for general construction and historic restoration, and its restoration record includes several Ellis Island buildings and work tied to the reopening of the Statue of Liberty. Natoli has built at the New York Giants’ headquarters complex before, and is the design-build contractor on the team’s training facility expansion announced in July 2026. Staff numbers around 100.

Bonding capacity is the number that sets the ceiling on a public builder, and Natoli publishes $450 million. Alongside it sit a New Jersey DPMC unlimited rating covering both general construction and historic restoration, an unlimited aggregate rating for New Jersey Schools Development Authority work, and membership in the Associated Construction Contractors of New Jersey. Together those credentials define the size and category of state work the firm can pursue.

Natoli offers construction management under a guaranteed maximum price, construction management on a cost-plus-fee basis, construction management converted to lump sum, design-build, and straight fixed-price contracting. On the front end it handles bidding and contract document review, constructability review, cost estimating and value engineering, permitting and regulatory approvals, and schedule development. The firm also self-performs portions of the work when a job calls for it rather than brokering every trade.

Paul R. Natoli is president, chief executive officer and sole principal. He graduated from Purdue in 1989, joined the family company and worked up to the top job; he sits on the ACCNJ executive board and is a past president of the Building Contractors Association of New Jersey. Thomas G. Sutphen Jr., a CPA who came from Ernst and Young and then Wiss and Co., has served as chief financial officer since 2013. Founder Joseph A. Natoli, the son of a masonry contractor, worked as a journeyman, foreman, superintendent and director of operations before starting the company, and retired full time in 2009.

Safety carries its own infrastructure here. The firm reports an Experience Modification Rating below 1.0, keeps an OSHA 500-hour safety compliance officer on staff running weekly meetings and site inspections, retains an outside consultant for independent audits, and writes a site-specific plan for every project. It has taken repeated zero-lost-workday awards from ACCNJ. On the environmental side, Natoli has completed a number of LEED-certified buildings and works to defined targets for energy reduction, waste management, recycling, indoor air quality and storm water control.

The client list is heavy on institutions with long memories: the Statue of Liberty National Monument, the New York Football Giants, Rutgers, and Delbarton School. Building types run to educational, athletic, commercial, healthcare and laboratory work across the region.