Barnhill Contracting Company

What Barnhill Contracting Company does

Barnhill Contracting Company is a privately held, family-owned general and civil construction firm founded in 1949 by Robert E. Barnhill, Sr. in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The company operates through two primary divisions — Barnhill Building Group (commercial general contracting, NC license No. 101040) and Barnhill Civil Group (site development, asphalt paving, and asphalt manufacturing, NC license No. 3194) — and sells asphalt directly from its plants to third-party contractors. It serves government agencies, educational institutions, financial institutions, and commercial developers across North Carolina and the Southeast, with named projects including the Coastal Credit Union headquarters, Wake County Public Safety Center renovation, the NCDOL Creamery project, and the Highline Glenwood mixed-use development.

The company generates revenue on a project basis through competitive bidding and relationship-based enterprise sales, supplemented by a materials sales channel for asphalt. Its go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales targeting institutional and government buyers; pricing is project-specific with no published rates. Differentiators cited by the company include the long-running "Barnhill Built" brand, vertical integration through owned asphalt plants, and a values-driven culture centered on workforce development (ECU partnership, scholarship programs). Operations are supported by 1,001–5,000 employees; no revenue, headcount trend, or ownership change data is disclosed. There is no evidence of AI, software, or recurring-revenue product lines — the business is a conventional regional construction services franchise with adjacencies in materials supply.

Name

Barnhill Contracting Company

Legal name

Barnhill Contracting Company

Website

https://barnhillcontracting.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1949

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Barnhill Contracting Company is a family-owned, full-service construction firm founded in 1949 in Rocky Mount, NC, delivering commercial building, site development, asphalt paving, and asphalt manufacturing to government, institutional, and commercial clients across North Carolina and the Southeast.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Raleigh

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Construction Services: Project-based construction services for commercial building, site development, and civil infrastructure projects. Revenue generated through competitive bidding on public and private construction projects with payment upon project completion.
2. Asphalt Sales: Sale of asphalt products from company-owned asphalt plants to contractors and construction companies for their own projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Barnhill Contracting Company is a full-service construction firm offering commercial building construction, site development, asphalt paving, and asphalt manufacturing across North Carolina and the Southeast. The company operates through two primary divisions — Barnhill Building Group (commercial building) and Barnhill Civil Group (civil construction/site development) — and sells asphalt products directly from its company-owned plants to contractors and developers.

Product overview

Barnhill Contracting Company is a full-service construction company operating through two primary divisions: Barnhill Building Group (commercial building) and Barnhill Contracting Company (civil construction/site development). The company also operates an asphalt sales division offering asphalt paving and asphalt manufacturing. These divisions work together to deliver comprehensive construction services for projects throughout North Carolina and the Southeast.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Commercial Building (Barnhill Building Group)

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• North Carolina Department of Labor (NCDOL)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2026Barnhill Building Group partnered with NCDOL for the Creamery project, a significant public infrastructure collaboration in North Carolina. The partnership demonstrates Barnhill's ability to secure and execute important state government construction projects.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Brasfield & Gorrie: One of the largest privately held general contractors in the Southeast, performing commercial building and civil work across NC, GA, AL, FL, and TX. Directly comparable to Barnhill Building Group in commercial general contracting, with comparable institutional/government client base in the Southeast.
• Gilbane Building Company: Large privately held US general contractor doing commercial, institutional, and public-sector building projects nationwide, with Southeast offices. Overlaps directly with Barnhill Building Group on institutional and commercial GC work, though at a larger national scale.
• McCarthy Building Companies: National employee-owned general contractor specializing in commercial, healthcare, education, and institutional building. Comparable to Barnhill on commercial/institutional general contracting, particularly the institutional and education end markets (ECU, public clients).
• Vulcan Materials Company: Largest US producer of construction aggregates and asphalt mix, with significant operations in the Southeast US. Comparable to Barnhill Civil Group on the aggregate and asphalt manufacturing side, though much larger and publicly traded.
• Balfour Beatty US: Major US general contractor with significant commercial building and heavy civil operations in the Southeast. Comparable to Barnhill across both commercial construction and civil infrastructure, though at a larger national scale with more diversified geographies.

Direct peers

• S.T. Wooten Corporation: Family-owned NC-based heavy civil and asphalt paving contractor headquartered in Raleigh area. Closest direct competitor to Barnhill Civil Group, sharing the same North Carolina service territory and a similar business model around site development, asphalt manufacturing, and paving.
• Holder Construction Company: Atlanta-based commercial general contractor operating across the Southeast, with strong institutional, mission-critical, and corporate office building portfolio. Directly comparable on the commercial building side and regional Southeast operating geography to Barnhill Building Group.
• Blythe Construction: Charlotte, NC-based site development, grading, utility, and highway contractor. Directly comparable to Barnhill Civil Group for site development and infrastructure construction in the Carolinas market.
• Crowder Constructors Inc. Charlotte-area general contractor providing building, civil, and industrial construction across the Carolinas and Southeast. Comparable across both commercial building and civil/site development service lines, with similar end-market exposure in NC.
• Rogers Group Inc. Largest privately held aggregate and asphalt producer in the Southeast, with integrated paving operations. Most directly comparable peer on the materials side, matching Barnhill Civil Group's asphalt manufacturing and paving business model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/barnhillcc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/barnhill-contracting-company

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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