ABC Carolinas Celebrates Member Firms Earning Accredited Quality Contractor (AQC) Status

ABC Carolinas congratulates all of its member firms that were named Accredited Quality Contractors (AQC) by the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) last month. These 32 companies from the Carolinas earned this prestigious national credential for their commitment to corporate responsibility – documenting this commitment in five areas: Quality, Safety Performance, Talent Management, Craft and Management Education, and Community Relations, Inclusion, Diversity and Equity.

The stringent criteria set forth in the AQC program includes a requirement that companies must have earned Gold-level or higher status in ABC’s STEP Safety Management System.

Companies Earning AQC Status

A M King

Balfour Beatty Construction

BE&K Building Group

Bobbitt Construction

Brasfield & Gorrie

CarolinaPower, Inc.

Cianbro Corporation

CNC Foundations, Inc

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Gaylor Electric, Inc.

Gray Construction

Graycor Southern Inc.

Lithko Contracting

McCrory Construction

Mechanical Contractors

Messer Construction Co.

Metcon Incorporated

MIG GOV

Miller Valentine Construction

Performance Contractors

Poettker Construction Company

Robins & Morton

Rodgers Builders, Inc.

Samet Corporation

Skanska

SouthCon Building Group

SPC Mechanical

Starr Electric Company, Inc.

W. M. Jordan Company, Incorporated

Watson Electrical Construction Co.

Wharton Smith Construction Group

William R Nash Companies

The Accredited Quality Contractor program was launched in 1993. A total of 450 of the nation’s elite merit shop construction contractors earned the AQC credential in 2021.

Associated Builders and Contractors is a national construction industry trade association established in 1950 that represents more than 22,000 members. Founded on the merit shop philosophy, ABC and its 69 chapters help members develop people, win work and deliver that work safely, ethically and profitably for the betterment of the communities in which ABC and its members work.

Main photo (above): Allen Amsler (left), CEO of McCrory Construction and 2023 Incoming Chair for ABC Carolinas’ Board of Directors, with McCrory’s President Allen Bridgers (right).