The company is frequently included in the Top 10 of theEngineering News-Record's annual Top 400 contractors,[6][7][8][9][10] and averages upwards of $8 billion USD (United States dollar) in revenue annually.[1][4] With over 4,000 employees, Whiting-Turner is also considered one of the largest private companies in the United States.[2]
In 1909,MIT classmates G.W.C. Whiting and LeBaron Turner founded The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company. The company's first project was utility and road work atWalter Reed General Hospital inWashington, DC.[5] Despite starting around the same time and having a similar name as competitorTurner Construction, which started in 1902, Whiting-Turner has always been its own completely separate company.[11][12][5]
In 1938,Willard Hackerman joined the company as an engineer shortly after graduating fromJohns Hopkins University. Seventeen years later, in 1955, Hackerman would be named Whiting-Turner's second president. Hackerman remained with the firm for over 75 years until he died in 2014.[5][13]
Following Willard Hackerman's death, Timothy Regan was named the company's third president and CEO. Regan joined the firm in 1980 as an engineer and currently remains in that position.[5][14]
In 2015, the firm finished construction of the $87 millionMcMurtry Building atStanford University. The 96,000 square foot building houses the university's Art History Department and the Art and Architecture Library on campus and was designed byDiller Scofidio + Renfro.[20][21]
In 2016, renovations of theUniversity of Virginia's historicrotunda were completed by Whiting-Turner. The building was originally built in 1826 and was designed byThomas Jefferson. The Rotunda is the focal point of the University of Virginia's campus and is represented in the university's logo.[22][23]
In 2019, Whiting-Turner completed the 250,000-square-foot renovation of the newly renamedRocket Mortgage FieldHouse, home of theCleveland Cavaliers. The $185 million renovation was funded by a 50-50 private/public funding agreement between the city ofCleveland and the Cavaliers organization.[24][25]
The firm is the general contractor forUnder Armour's new global headquarters in thePort Covington neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. The new facility will feature an NCAA-regulation track and field facility, retail outlets, and a 280,000-square-foot cross-laminatedmass timber office building. The project is a multi-billion-dollar endeavor expected to be completed in early 2025.[27][28][29][30][31]
Whiting-Turner also leads the $5 Billion John Palmour Manufacturing Center for Silicon Carbine project inSiler City, North Carolina. The 445-acre facility will producesilicon carbide wafers needed to make silicon carbide chips for many electronics and electric vehicles. The project, which is expected to be completed in 2030, is funded in part by theCHIPS and Science Act signed by PresidentJoe Biden.[32][33][34][35]
