Sukut Construction

Sukut Construction is a Santa Ana, California heavy civil contractor built around mass earthwork. The employee-owned firm self-performs excavation, grading, dam and levee work, underground utilities and site development, and it owns one of the larger private earthmoving fleets in California. Sukut has spent decades on water infrastructure in particular, where its ability to move and place engineered fill at volume is the differentiator. In July 2026 the firm won a place on the joint venture with FlatironDragados that took the $1.88 billion Anderson Dam Seismic Retrofit Project for the Santa Clara Valley Water District, a seven-year rebuild of the dam and spillway. The two contractors had partnered previously on the Lake Isabella dam project in Kern County.

The 26-mile Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor is the job that best explains what Sukut sells. The company and its partners finished it within budget and 14 months ahead of schedule, moving 67 million cubic yards of earth and rock, and logged 57,497 safe work hours on the project. That combination of volume and schedule recovery is the argument the firm makes on every large earthwork pursuit.

Myron Sukut and Dick Coulson started Sukut-Coulson in October 1968 to grade residential subdivisions during the Orange County housing boom, and the name shortened to Sukut Construction by 1974. The company moved to its present Chandler Avenue office in Santa Ana in the early 1980s, by which point the work had broadened to the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, major sections of I-15 through the Inland Empire, resort and golf course earthwork at Pelican Hill and Aviara, and slope stabilization on difficult hillside sites in La Jolla.

Mike Crawford was named president in 1990 and added the chief executive role in 1999. The firm now organizes itself around five markets, private works, public works, environmental services, renewable energy, and dams and reservoirs, spanning roughly eight work types including mass grading, concrete structures, flood control, underground work and master-planned communities. Environmental services were added in 2005, following an earlier long-term contract with the State of California Integrated Waste Management Board to clear illegal landfills and waste tire sites, and a fleet-wide switch to emission-reduction engines.

The technical side is where Sukut has invested. An in-house group converts engineers’ 2D plans into 3D models before anything moves, testing constructability, catching plan changes early and generating the base data for GPS machine control. The same group supports construction staking against a licensed surveyor’s control points, which keeps grade checkers working without waiting on outside survey crews. On design-build work the firm starts grading and underground construction before the full plan set is complete.

Beyond the Santa Ana headquarters there is a Northern California office in Folsom and an equipment affiliate, Sukut Equipment, in San Bernardino. Completed projects extend into Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Canada. The firm holds California contractor’s license 985106 and reports more than 100 industry honors in recent years, among them Contractor of the Year from the Southern California Contractors Association and repeated best-workplace recognition.