Innovative commercial building projects, developed from the ground up

In the building market, Kiewit specializes in constructing office buildings; industrial complexes; education and sports facilities; hotels; hospitals; transportation terminals; science and technology facilities; manufacturing, retail and special-use facilities and extensive interior construction with tenant improvements.

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From food and beverage to metals and pulp and paper, project delivery solutions across industrial markets

With extensive experience in industrial engineering and construction across North America, Kiewit has the resources, capabilities and know-how to deliver projects in this market through a broad array of contract models.

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Infrastructure development, mineral processing and contract solutions for mining markets

Kiewit specializes in mine management, production, infrastructure construction, maintenance and contract mining ventures, offering some of the most highly-skilled and experienced professionals in the industry.

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Outcome certainty for the oil, gas and chemical industry

For more than half a century, Kiewit has served domestic and international oil, gas and chemical (OGC) companies and project developers by offering full project delivery services for facilities of all sizes and complexities in the following sectors: offshore, oil sands, gas processing, pipeline facilities, tanks and terminals, liquid natural gas (LNG), refining and petrochemicals.

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Reliable performance and innovative solutions in the evolving power generation and delivery markets

Kiewit is a leader in the power industry with expertise across gas- and coal-fired generation, power delivery and renewable energy project delivery.

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Unmatched performance in transportation infrastructure development

As one of the largest transportation contractors in North America, we construct and upgrade interstates; highways and bridges; rail lines and rail yards; urban mass transit systems; and airport runways, taxiways and associated facilities.

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Flexible project delivery methods for water and wastewater projects

We understand that each project is unique and we work with our clients to determine the best delivery method to support their project, be it a collaborative procurement or a traditional design-bid-build.

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Kiewit is one of North America’s largest and most respected engineering and construction organizations. Kiewit’s commitment to safety, quality and environmental stewardship are ingrained in everything we do. It’s visible in our core values, the work that we build and in our people.

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$12.5 billion 2020 Revenues
27,000 Craft and staff employees
#4 Rank in ENR's list of Top 400 Contractors

Working at Kiewit

Are you ready to make an impact? We know you’re not just looking for a job. You want an adventure — to do something that makes a real impact on the world around you. You want more opportunity, cutting-edge training, meaningful responsibilities from Day One, and you never settle for second best. That’s what you’ll find here at Kiewit. So if you’re looking for more than a job, look no further.

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Our Work

Rutherford Creek Power Project

Pemberton, British Columbia

Ilima at Leihano Assisted Living and Memory Care Facility

Kapolei, Hawaii

Stillwater Expansion Project

Nye, Montana

Lower Mattagami River Project

Kapuskasing, Ontario

Mid-Jordan Light Rail Extension

West Jordan, Utah

Astoria Fuel Oil Tank Farm Conversion

Astoria, New York

Phoenix Sky Harbor Barry M. Goldwater Terminal 4

Phoenix, Arizona

Environmental Controls Construction Project

Petersburg, Indiana

Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium - Coastal Waters Sea Lions

Omaha, Nebraska

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Our Story

Kiewit’s roots can be traced back to 1884 when the Kiewit family started its small, local masonry contracting company. Kiewit has since grown to be one of the leading construction and engineering firms across North America.

1884

Peter and Andrew Kiewit form a masonry contracting company in Omaha, Nebraska.

1900

The company takes on its first project, the Bekins Warehouse, as general contractors.

1924

Kiewit is awarded its first $1 million contract to build the Livestock Exchange Building in Omaha, Nebraska.

1931

Peter Kiewit’s youngest son, also named Peter, becomes president of the company.

1933

Kiewit wins contracts for reservoirs and hydroelectric plants in Nebraska as part of the Public Works Administration federal relief program.

1939

Kiewit is awarded its largest contract to build barracks and facilities at Fort Lewis, Washington. Through the 1940s, Kiewit builds more than $500 million of work for the government.

1943

Kiewit enters the coal-mining business at the Big Horn Mine near Sheridan, Wyoming.

1946

Peter Kiewit first states the goal to be “the best – not biggest – contracting organization on earth” at the company’s Annual Shareholder Meeting.

1946

Kiewit takes its first water contract on California’s Friant-Kern Canal, building 100 of the canal’s 152 miles.

1947

Kiewit completes the first segment of the Santa Ana Freeway in Los Angeles, a forerunner to today’s Interstate Highway System. Throughout the early 1950s, Kiewit builds more lane miles of the system than any other contractor.

1948

Kiewit mandates that craft workers wear hard hats as part of its pioneering safety focus. In 1951, Kiewit’s safety program begins when full-time safety managers are assigned to all major projects.

1951

Kiewit constructs Thule Air Force Base in Greenland. The project includes radar stations along the Arctic Circle and helps establish Kiewit as a mechanical electrical contractor.

1966

Work begins on one of the most distinctive projects of the time — the Trans-Bay Tube for Bay Area Rapid Transit, linking San Francisco and Oakland.

1969

Peter chooses Bob Wilson to succeed him as president, and remains chairman of the board.

1979

Walter Scott, Jr., succeeds Bob Wilson as president. Later that year, he is named chairman of the board after Peter dies.

1980

Kiewit begins work on the final link of the Interstate Highway System, the $425 million Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore, Maryland.

1991

California’s $802 million San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor becomes the company’s first large design-build transportation megaproject.

1993

Kiewit – with a presence in Canada dating back to 1941 – begins work on a $1.2 billion contract to complete the Hibernia Gravity Base Structure at St. John’s, Newfoundland.

1998

Ken Stinson becomes chairman and CEO of Peter Kiewit Sons’, Inc.

1999

Kiewit begins Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and  Aquarium’s Desert Dome, the world’s largest glazed dome, which houses the world’s largest indoor desert exhibit.

2001

Kiewit begins work on the $1.2 billion design-build T-REX megaproject in Denver, Colorado, reconstructing 17 miles of interstate and 19 miles of double-track light rail.

2001

Kiewit – in the offshore market since 1984 – invests $100 million to build a new, state-of-the-art fabrication yard in Ingleside, Texas.

2004

Kiewit begins work on the Sea-to-Sky Highway, from Vancouver to Whistler, British Columbia, in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Along with 65 kilometers of highway upgrades requiring 450,000 tons of asphalt, 48 new bridges and structures are built.

2005

Bruce Grewcock, chief operating officer since 2000, becomes CEO of Peter Kiewit Sons’, Inc. Ken Stinson remains chairman of the Board.

2005

Kiewit completes the first Gold-certified LEED project in Nebraska: the Midwest Regional Headquarters of the National Park Service.

2009

The $2.5 billion Gateway Project in Vancouver, British Columbia, becomes the largest single fixed-price contract in the company’s history. Included in the contract is the 10-lane Port Mann Bridge, the second longest cable-stayed bridge in North America and one of the widest bridges in the world.

2010

Kiewit works on the Lower Mattagami River Project, the largest hydroelectric power generation initiative in nearly 40 years in northern Ontario.

2017

Kiewit opens new training and development centers for all employees in Omaha, Nebraska, and Aurora, Colorado.

2020

Rick Lanoha, president and chief operating officer since 2016, becomes CEO of Peter Kiewit Sons’, Inc. Bruce Grewcock remains chairman of the board.

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