Capital Electric Line Builders

What Capital Electric Line Builders does

Capital Electric Line Builders is a utility infrastructure construction contractor founded in 1967 and headquartered in Parkville, Missouri. The company builds and maintains overhead and underground electrical transmission and distribution systems, substations, traffic signals, and street/highway lighting for investor-owned utilities, municipalities, and state departments of transportation. It operates as a subsidiary within Everus Construction Group, itself part of MDU Construction Services Group, with regional offices in Kansas City and Dayton supporting work across Missouri, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, and emergency restoration deployments in Florida and Texas.

The company staffs projects with IBEW-unionized craft labor and carries bonding capacity of up to $100 million per single project, enabling it to bid on large-scale transmission builds including 345kV lines. Its project portfolio spans greenfield transmission corridors (Rose Hill to Sooner, Walnut to Cheyenne), reliability upgrades (McLean County Reliability), distribution work (Paola to Ottawa), and fiber optic construction (Stallings fiber). Documented safety performance — Liberty Mutual Gold (2014) and Silver (2017, 2012, 2020) awards and an OSHA Strategic Partnership through its parent — functions as a credentialing moat for utility and government contract qualification.

Revenue derives from unit-price and lump-sum construction contracts under multi-year utility capital plans and state DOT programs, with episodic FEMA emergency response work providing counter-cyclical volume. Customer concentration is anchored in Ameren, Evergy, Westar Energy, and BPU on the utility side and KDOT, MODOT, and the City of Dayton on the public-sector side. The business model is project-based with no software, subscription, or recurring-service revenue streams.

Name

Capital Electric Line Builders

Legal name

Capital Electric Line Builders

Website

https://capitalelectriclinebuilders.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1967

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Capital Electric Line Builders is a 1967-founded utility construction contractor in Parkville, Missouri, building transmission, distribution, substation, traffic signal, and lighting infrastructure for utilities, DOTs, and municipalities across the Midwest.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Utility Infrastructure Construction Services

NAICS

Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction (237130), Utility System Construction (2371)

SIC

Electrical Work (1731), Heavy Construction Other Than Bldg Const - Contractors (1600), Water, Sewer, Pipeline, Comm & Power Line Construction (1623)

akta.pro primary industry

Transmission Line Construction (Overhead & Underground) (IMAFAHAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Overhead Transmission Line EPC (HV/EHV) (EUAEABAA), Overhead Distribution Line Construction (MV/LV) (EUAEACAA), Transmission Line/Stringing & Live-Line Construction Services (EUAEABAJ)

Keywords

• Utility construction services
• Transmission line installation
• Distribution infrastructure
• Substation construction
• Traffic signal installation

Headquarters

HQ city

Parkville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Utility Construction Contracts: Project-based contracts for construction and maintenance of transmission lines, distribution systems, substations, traffic signals, and street lighting for utility companies and municipal governments. Revenue is earned through fixed-price or cost-plus contracts on a project-by-project basis.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Capital Electric Line Builders is a utility infrastructure construction contractor that installs and maintains overhead and underground electrical transmission and distribution lines, substations (12kV to 345kV), traffic signalization systems, and roadway and area lighting for investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, and state departments of transportation. The company also provides rapid 24/7 emergency power restoration services following storms and natural disasters across the continental US.

Product overview

Capital Electric Line Builders is a utility infrastructure construction services company founded in 1967, headquartered in Parkville, Missouri. The company operates as a single unified service offering focused on electrical infrastructure installation and maintenance, not a platform-plus-modules architecture. Their core portfolio consists of six interconnected service lines: Transmission Services, Distribution Services, Substation Construction, Emergency Restoration Services, and two regional Signals & Lighting operations (Kansas City and Dayton). These services work together to provide utilities with end-to-end electrical infrastructure solutions from high-voltage transmission through distribution to street-level lighting and traffic signals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Transmission Services Installation and maintenance of high-voltage overhead and underground transmission lines for utility infrastructure, supporting voltages up to 345kV. Service is targeted at investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, and other entities requiring electric transmission infrastructure.
• Distribution Services Installation and maintenance of distribution systems that deliver electricity from substations to end users. Targeted at investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities (such as BPU Kansas City, KS), and other entities operating electric distribution infrastructure.
• Substation Construction Construction of high-voltage substations, switching stations, and interconnect stations from 12kV to 345kV, built from the ground up. Service is targeted at investor-owned utilities and municipal utilities requiring substation infrastructure (e.g., Union Ridge 345kV/115kV substation, Geary County 22-acre substation).
• Emergency Restoration Services Rapid 24/7 emergency response and storm restoration services for utilities and government agencies, including pole and wire replacement and power restoration to homes and critical infrastructure following hurricanes, storms, and natural disasters. Service is targeted at utilities and government agencies (including FEMA) across the continental US.
• Signals & Lighting - Kansas City New construction and installation of traffic signals, street lighting, high mast lighting, navigational lighting, fiber optic interconnect installations, and smart highway ITS systems in the Kansas City region. Targeted at state DOTs (KDOT, MODOT), municipalities, and counties in the Kansas City metro area requiring traffic safety infrastructure, LED conversions, and intelligent transportation systems.
• Signals & Lighting - Dayton New construction and installation of traffic signals, street lighting, high mast lighting, navigational lighting, fiber optic interconnect installations, and smart highway ITS systems in the Dayton region, including 24/7 emergency and routine maintenance. Targeted at the City of Dayton and other municipalities in the Ohio region.

Quantifiable outcome

• DART rate 60% better than industry (2020 Liberty Mutual Silver Safety Award)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• MDU Construction Services Group / ET&D (Electrical Transmission & Distribution) Strategic Partnership with OSHAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMDU Construction Services Group was one of six original signatory contractors, along with IBEW, Edison Electric Institute, and NECA, to form a strategic partnership with OSHA to reduce injuries and fatalities in the line construction industry. The partnership developed industry-specific training courses and best practices, resulting in a significant reduction of lineman fatalities nationwide.
• Everus Construction Group (Parent Company)coreOthersCapital Electric Line Builders is an Everus company. Everus Construction Group is an industry-leading construction services provider operating across the United States, providing electrical and mechanical and transmission and distribution services. CELB benefits from deep expertise, proven execution playbook, and readily available additional resources backed by a national platform.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• MYR Group: Pure-play T&D and commercial/industrial electrical construction contractor with comparable service lines including transmission, distribution, substations, and emergency restoration. Similar union/specialty-labor workforce model and serves many of the same investor-owned utility customers.
• Pike Electric: Specialty contractor for electric and gas distribution and transmission, now part of Quanta Services. Directly comparable in service mix, IBEW union workforce, and customer roster of investor-owned utilities and municipalities.
• Irby Construction Company: Utility infrastructure contractor performing overhead and underground transmission, distribution, and substation work primarily in the central and southern U.S. (Quanta subsidiary). Directly comparable in service mix and customer profile to CELB.
• Henkels & McCoy: Privately held, 100+ year-old utility infrastructure contractor performing transmission, distribution, substation, gas distribution, and telecom construction across the U.S. Closely matches CELB's project-based, unionized workforce model and blue-chip utility customer base.
• MDU Construction Services Group: Construction services arm of MDU Resources/Everus group with overlapping T&D and electrical contracting operations. The most directly comparable peer given the shared parent history and unionized IBEW workforce model focused on utility line construction.
• PAR Electrical Contractors: Transmission, distribution, and substation contractor operating across the U.S. (Quanta subsidiary). Comparable project scope on overhead and underground T&D builds and similar IBEW-trained workforce model.

Broad incumbents

• MasTec: Diversified infrastructure construction services company whose Oil, Gas & Clean Energy and Clean Energy & Infrastructure segments overlap with CELB's T&D and substation work. Much broader portfolio (pipeline, communications, clean energy) makes MasTec a broad incumbent rather than a focused T&D peer.
• Quanta Services: Largest publicly traded utility infrastructure construction services company in North America. Quanta's Electric Power Infrastructure Solutions segment covers transmission, distribution, and substation work that directly overlaps CELB's core services, but at a national and multi-billion-dollar scale with capabilities across telecom, pipeline, and renewable BoP.
• Primoris Services Corporation: Diversified infrastructure contractor with utility, pipeline, and civil operations. The Power, Pipeline, and Utility segment directly overlaps with CELB's T&D scope, but Primoris's broader portfolio places it as a broad incumbent rather than a focused T&D peer.
• EMCOR Group: Large publicly traded mechanical and electrical construction services firm whose electrical contracting segment overlaps with CELB's distribution, substation, and traffic signal/lighting capabilities. EMCOR serves a broader commercial/industrial base and operates at a larger scale, making it a broad incumbent.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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