The company traces its founding to the George Hyman Construction Company which as an excavation only company in 1906 in Washington, DC where business boomed as it initially had the only steam shovel in Washington. In 1923 the company began doing actual construction with its first contract for Wheatley Junior High School. The company was involved in numerous military construction projects during World War II. Hyman died in 1959 and was succeeded by his nephew Benjamin Rome. In 1969 A. James Clark bought the company from the Hyman family and oversaw major growth including one of its earliest projects L'Enfant Plaza in Washington. Clark formed separate company 1977 for non-union projects in the Washington area. In 1995 Clark merged construction companies of Hyman, Shirley Contracting Company, Guy F. Atkinson Construction and OMNI to form Clark Construction. In 2016 a year after Clark died, the construction firm management bought the company from its parent Clark Enterprises leaving the parent to concentrate on its private equity, financial and real estate markets.
Controversies
In June 2018, three black employees employed as elevator operators by a Clark Construction subcontractor in San Francisco alleged that they were targeted at work with racial slurs, including verbal abuse, written abuse on walls, and black dolls hung from nooses. It was reported that the employees were planning on suing Clark Construction.
Subsidiaries
Guy F. Atkinson Construction
Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate - founded in 2001 as a vertically integrated business that handles Development, Design and Construction, Financing, and Operations and Maintenance/Life Cycle Costs
Notable projects
Aviation
Baltimore/Washington International Airport - Check baggage system
Dulles International Airport - East/West Baggage system and people mover
Kansas City International Airport - Construction of new single terminal
Los Angeles International Airport - Overhaul of airport's central terminal
San Antonio International Airport - New Terminal B
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport - South terminal complex and arrivals terminal
William P. Hobby Airport - Expansion of new concourse and renovations to Main terminal building
Government projects
Harry S. Truman Building - 2017 project to demolish interior and reinforce exterior.
Los Angeles City Hall - 1998 total overhaul and restoration including making it rated to withstand an 8.2 earthquake
Pasadena City Hall - 2007 overhaul and earthquake retrofit
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center - 2011 project with a contract price of $861 million to build the America Building and Arrowhead Building on the campus.
Los Angeles Federal Courthouse - 2016 project to build a $326 million modern Federal Courthouse for the General Services Administration
