Overview

In the early 1900’s, an Italian immigrant named John Stanislaus Alberici constructed a new building for Boatmen's Bank in downtown St. Louis for his New York City employer. Because of the tremendous success of this project, his clients encouraged Alberici to move to St. Louis and start his own contracting firm.

The Formative Years

In 1918, John Alberici did just that, founding J.S. Alberici Construction Co., Inc. In the early years, Alberici was a concrete contractor, working for clients such as Boatmen’s, Robertson Aircraft, the Veterans Administration, the St. Louis Board of Education and the City of St. Louis.

In 1928, John’s son, Gabriel, joined the company. In the early 1930’s, he negotiated the trade-in of the firm’s horse-and-wagon for the company’s first truck. Later that decade, Alberici purchased its first crane. “From the beginning, we’ve had a philosophy of owning our own equipment,” Gabe explained. Today, Alberici’s  equipment fleet is valued at over $100 million.

Gabe took over as president after his father’s sudden death in 1940. With his sister, Mary, running the office and Gabe managing construction, the firm continued to grow. At this time, Alberici moved its headquarters from downtown St. Louis to 1550 Irving in Wellston, Missouri. When warehouse needs expanded beyond site constraints, Alberici purchased two acres of land a half-mile away. This initial two-acre purchase expanded to 60 acres, which still contains Alberici’s warehouse and equipment yard.

Expansion and Growth

In the 1940’s, Alberici worked on multiple industrial, manufacturing and school projects. In the 1950's, Alberici entered the automotive market working for both Chrysler and General Motors.  Alberici also began work in highway construction,  eventually working on Interstates 40, 44, 55 and 70 in St. Louis. Alberici also began work on its first water treatment facility in 1954, a massive cast-in-place concrete job for the City of St. Louis’ water system.

Alberici ventured into several new markets in the 1960’s, including healthcare, energy and steel fabrication. Alberici began fabricating structural steel as the result of frustrations with the steel supplier on its first hospital project. On the scheduled due date, the steel for the project did not arrive. When Gabe went to the supplier’s shop, he learned that fabrication had not even begun. Unable to wait without compromising the client’s deadline, Alberici paid for the steel detailing and fabricated the steel by hand in its own warehouse. Ultimately, the project was completed five days ahead of schedule, and Alberici established itself as a steel fabricator. Today, Alberici’s steel fabrication unit, Hillsdale Fabricators, has the capacity to produce 40,000 tons of structural steel annually in its 250,000-square-foot shop.

Despite the economic turmoil of the 1980’s, Alberici continued to set new records. The company completed several large projects for clients such as General Motors, Chrysler and Monsanto. Alberici also expanded geographically, opening an office in Detroit, Michigan.

Still, Alberici maintained its ties to the St. Louis area, completing multiple landmark projects in the 1990’s. These included the Saint Louis Science Center, Edward Jones Dome (formerly TWA Dome) and Scottrade Center (formerly Kiel Center). 

In 1997, Alberici acquired longtime Canadian joint venture partner Robertson-Yates Corporation Limited (RYCO) based in Hamilton, Ontario. This led to the establishment of our Canadian entity, Alberici Constructors, Ltd., based in Burlington, Ontario. 

New Millennium, New Initiatives

In 1999, Gabe Alberici stepped down as Chairman of the Board and was succeeded by his son, John S. Alberici. Under John's leadership, Alberici began its focus on sustainable construction. In 2003, the company started construction of its new corporate headquarters in St. Louis. The facility earned LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

To usher in the new millennium, J.S. Alberici Construction Co., Inc. rebranded itself with a new logo and a name change to Alberici Constructors, Inc.

In October 2004, Gregory J. Kozicz, Ph.D., became president and chief executive officer. He joined Alberici in 2001 as president of Alberici Constructors, Ltd. Under Greg's leadership, Alberici has become a top safety and financial performer in the industry. In 2008, the company recorded revenues in excess of $1 billion for the first time in its history.

In January 2013, Alberici Corporation acquired Flintco, LLC, a 105-year-old construction firm based in Tulsa, Oklahoma with offices in offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Austin, Texas; Memphis, Tennessee; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Springdale, Arkansas. The acquisition is part of a strategy to expand services for construction clients of both companies across a more diverse geographic market.

Today, Alberici continues to provide unflinching dependability to the water, manufacturing, building and healthcare, energy, heavy industrial and automotive markets. The company is active throughout North America and has offices in St. Louis, Missouri; Detroit, Michigan; Atlanta, Georgia; Topeka, Kansas; Burlington, Ontario; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; and Leon, Mexico.

"We have a company with a rich tradition of success, the financial strength to grow and most importantly, the people who can adapt to the future and make it happen," said President and CEO Greg Kozicz. "We are stewards of a phenomenal company with unlimited potential, and we owe it all to the women and men who came before us."

Safety

Alberici’s goal for safety is simple: to execute our work in the safest means possible to achieve Zero Incidents on all our projects. While our Zero Incident goal is ambitious, it is also achievable.

We believe all injuries and occupational illnesses can be prevented and work tirelessly to hone our means and methods to ensure predictable, safe results. Our SafeRing program uses four guiding principles:
Plan
Communicate
Observe
Improve
We use a combination of institutional and behavioral methods to create a safe environment. To build a strong sense of respect for a construction site’s unique challenges, we use both incentives and training to eliminate at-risk behavior. We reward good behavior and discipline bad behavior. While OSHA standards are the basic building blocks of our safety plan, we continually strive to surpass them in our quest for Zero Incidents.

Alberici brings a culture of safety to all of our projects. We have found that safe projects are positive places to work. They are better organized, cleaner and more likely to stay on schedule. Our safety culture promotes an environment where workers know that they matter and are empowered to create a safer workplace.

Alberici’s management and employees are committed to quality and the philosophy of continuous improvement in everything we do. Our Alberici Quality Management (AQM) program ensures we achieve the highest level of quality starting with project planning through final completion.

Our objective is to build safe and operable facilities while avoiding errors and non-conformities that adversely impact cost and schedule. Through AQM, Alberici remains dedicated to quality, stays abreast of developments in quality management and ensures that our team members remain focused on quality.

Experience has taught us that unique conditions exist in each of the markets we serve. Quality procedures used in constructing a hospital, for example, differ from those necessary to build a power generation plant. For this reason, AQM encompasses an array of individual quality standards and guidelines carefully selected to create a best-in-class performance for our clients in each market.

In conjunction with AQM, Alberici maintains certifications in those industry standard quality programs that are most important to achieving and documenting the highest construction quality possible, including:

• American Institute of Steel Construction
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• American Welding Society
• ISO 9001:2008 Certification (Michigan & Ontario offices)
• National Board of Boiler Pressure Vessel Inspectors

By drawing on lessons we have learned in multiple markets, we have built a diverse body of knowledge that enables us to bring quality to every project we perform.

For Alberici, developing a diverse supplier base is a vital part of doing business. Our commitment to supplier diversity includes developing and maintaining strong alliances with small and disadvantaged businesses, including minority, women, and veteran-owned companies. Our inclusion of these firms provides them with economic opportunities and enables our clients to meet their diversity goals.