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OCOEE, Tennessee - National infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen has completed construction and turned over operations of a new modular post office for the United States Postal Service in Ocoee, Tennessee. The project restores permanent postal operations to the rural community after an EF-3 tornado destroyed the town’s previous facility. Ocoee is a small unincorporated community in Tennessee Polk County in Southeastern Tennessee that is known globally as a premier whitewater rafting destination. Since the storm, local postal employees have processed ...

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana - National infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen met with k-12 district superintendents and school board trustees from across the state at the Indiana School Boards Association and Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents Fall Conference in Indianapolis this month. Between sessions on school finance and facility planning, F.H. Paschen joined local school leaders to talk shop. The conversations focused on getting work done quickly and keeping taxpayer-funded projects moving, even when budgets are tight. The F.H. Paschen team at ...

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - F.H. Paschen, a leading national infrastructure builder, is celebrating 15 years of operations in the Southeast Region of the United States. Since launching its regional headquarters in Atlanta in 2011, the firm has expanded its footprint across Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, delivering critical public infrastructure and community-focused projects. "Fifteen years ago, we set out to establish a dedicated, localized presence that could seamlessly deliver Paschen's national scale with a homegrown touch," said James Blair, CEO of ...

CHICAGO, Illinois - National infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen has earned top national honors in Engineering News-Record’s (ENR) newly released 2026 Sourcebook, ranked as one of only 11 U.S. construction firms to hold Top-25 rankings across all three core civil transportation sectors of Rail, Bridges, Highways. In the 2026 ENR national rankings, F.H.Paschen ranked as the 16 largest construction company in Mass Transit and Rail, No. 21 in Bridges and No. 23 in Highways. While the upper tiers of national infrastructure ...

ORLANDO, FLORIDA - National Infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen has expanded its footprint in the Southeast K-12 education sector, securing a series of playground modernization projects with Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) totaling more than $4M of work over the past year. Headquartered in Orlando, Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) is the public school district for Orange County, in Central Florida. OCPS is the eighth-largest school district in the United States and the fourth-largest in Florida. The partnership between F.H. Paschen ...

DETROIT, Michigan - National infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen has reached the 25 percent completion mark on a $60 million Screened Final Effluent pumping station project for the Great Lakes Water Authority this month. The Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) is one of the top 10 largest public water and wastewater systems in the United States, serving nearly 4 million people (about 40% of Michigan’s population) across an expansive regional service area. Located at the GLWA Water Resource Recovery Facility on ...

JOLIET, ILLINOIS - The Will County Division of Transportation (WCDOT) has selected national infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen as the construction manager (CM) for a new 55,000-square-foot maintenance facility on a 10-acre site at Illinois Route 50 (Governor’s Highway) and West Industrial Drive in South Suburban Monee. WCDOT maintains more than 620 lane miles of highway across the county using four regional maintenance hubs. The existing Monee garage, built in 1970 to service eastern Will County, is structurally deteriorating, lacks sufficient ...

POTOMAC, MD — Nationally-recognized builder F.H. Paschen has finished a two-year, $21 million renovation of the guest accommodations at the William F. Bolger Center, a historic 83-acre hotel and training facility owned by the U.S. Postal Service. The project, started in 2024 and reached total completion this Summer, focused on modernizing the guest spaces for the thousands of Postal Service employees and corporate clients who visit the center annually for leadership development and conferences. The Bolger Center, originally built in ...

DALLAS, TEXAS - National infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen is expanding its K-12 education footprint in Texas, advancing facility modernizations and safety upgrades across the Dallas Independent School District through three campus projects. Dallas ISD ranks as the second-largest public school district in Texas and among the 20 largest nationwide, serving more than 140,000 students. Supporting the district’s capital program, F.H. Paschen is delivering standardized security building upgrades. These include dual-door secure vestibules with intercoms and cameras, along with code-compliant fire ...

DALLAS, TEXAS - National infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen joined Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson and community leaders at Fair Park for the 30th Annual Mayor’s Back to School Fair this month. The event served more than 13,000 registered Dallas Independent School District students and 5,600 families as they prepared for the 2026-2027 school year. The annual event provides essential resources to local families, including backpacks, school supplies, health screenings, and immunizations. Instead of traditional giveaways, F.H. Paschen brought a live building ...

ST. JOHN, INDIANA - The Town of St. John is using an on-demand cooperative purchasing model with national infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen to accelerate local drainage improvements and water main repairs this year. Through Job Order Contracting under the OMNIA Partners program, St. John municipal leaders can approve ongoing maintenance and repair tasks as needed without starting a separate, lengthy administrative process for each small repair. By eliminating upfront design fees and other administrative costs, the municipality is able to ...

HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS - The City of Highland Park has selected F.H. Paschen as construction manager for the city’s permanent Place of Remembrance, honoring the victims, survivors, and community impacted by the Highland Park shooting on July 4, 2022. The project features a primary space at the Rose Garden in Laurel Park, located at 1707 St. Johns Avenue adjacent to City Hall, along with a secondary installation at Port Clinton Plaza. As outlined by the City of Highland Park, The ...

HARWOOD HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS - West Suburban Union Ridge School District 86, construction manager F.H. Paschen and district leadership including Mike Maguire, Superintendent of Union Ridge School District 86 along with faculty and parents cut the ribbon to celebrate the completion of a $32 million addition and upgrades to the Union Ridge School at 4600 N. Oak Park Avenue in Harwood Heights. The $32 million project addresses growing enrollment and modernized learning spaces for the district, which serves 660 students in ...

FAIRFAX, VA - National construction firm F.H. Paschen has officially broke ground on the installation of new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at the Fairfax County Government Center (12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, VA). The $1.5M power and energy utility upgrade will add twenty (20) active EV charging ports alongside 16 future-proofed expansion conduit pathways, enabling seamless and cost-effective scaling as the county's electric fleet grows. Across the two primary parking lots, the new chargers are being installed to handle ...

BURNS HARBOR, INDIANA - For years, hikers and cyclists traveling the Marquette Greenway Trail in Northwest Indiana faced a sudden dead end in Burns Harbor, forced off the path at Stanley Street. This week, F.H. Paschen broke ground on the latest phase of the trail, partnering with the town of Burns Harbor to build a new stretch of connecting trail through the Indiana Dunes National Park. The Marquette Greenway Trail is a planned 60-mile corridor linking Chicago to New Buffalo, ...

Chicago, IL - National infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen named the winners of the 2026 Paschen Prize for Public Progress. This national award celebrates the infrastructure and construction projects that improve how Americans live, move, learn, and gather. This year’s ten (10) winners span nine (9) categories and represent communities ranging from the Great Lakes to the Mid-Atlantic to the South. "These ten award-winning public-purpose projects shape how we live, work and connect," said Jim Blair, CEO of F.H. Paschen. "With ...

DALLAS and HOUSTON - National infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen and Princeton Technical Services today announced the formation of Paschen x Princeton, a strategic teaming partnership focused on delivering high-precision infrastructure projects all across growing markets in Texas. The joint venture targets the rapid growth in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin. These growing markets are where the construction project pipeline for needed infrastructure is accelerating, which brings with it a less visible challenge: the risk that in the need for ...

CHICAGO, IL - F.H. Paschen, a leader in national commercial construction and infrastructure, has earned the #78 spot on Engineering News-Record’s (ENR) 2026 Top 100 Contractors by New Contracts list. While traditional rankings look back at past revenue, the New Contracts index looks forward and serves as a key indicator of market trust, upcoming work, and future stability. Landing in the top 80 follows a strong year of project wins across aviation, transit, civil infrastructure, education, and commercial markets. It ...

CHICAGO, IL - F.H. Paschen, a leader in national commercial construction and infrastructure, has officially been named the #137 overall largest contractor in America by Engineering News-Record (ENR) in its newly released 2026 Top 400 Contractors list. The ranking marks a steady two-spot increase from the firm’s #139 position on last year’s index, underscoring a trajectory of disciplined, continuous financial growth and national market expansion. The annual ENR rankings serve as the definitive benchmark for the industry's top players. F.H. ...

CHICAGO, IL - As the U.S. shifts toward a modernized energy grid, cities and states are racing to update their aging infrastructure. F.H. Paschen is stepping into that gap, building everything from municipal EV charging stations to regional solar arrays to meet the surging demand. The teams from Chicago to Atlanta to the Mid-Atlantic region at F.H. Paschen have spent more than a century building the foundations of American industry. Today, that means constructing the systems that will carry the ...

FAIRFAX, VA - National construction firm F.H. Paschen has been selected to receive the Fairfax County Department of Public Works and Environmental Services 2025-2026 Award of Excellence for Building Design and Construction. The honor recognizes the company’s performance across three distinct public works initiatives in Northern Virginia. Fairfax County, the most populated county in the Washington, D.C. metro area and home to more than 1 million residents, recently awarded the Excellence Award to F.H. Paschen for its work on the ...

CHICAGO, IL - National infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen announced today that Superintendent Nick Johnson has received the 2026 Johnny B. Safety Award. The announcement took place during the company’s annual safety picnic, held as part of the annual Safety Week celebration at the company headquarters and across their field offices. The award was established in 2018 to honor the memory of former employee John “Johnny B.” Barkowski. It recognizes employees who lead jobsite crews with a proactive focus on safety ...

CHICAGO, IL - National infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen along with The Chicago Park District (CPD) and the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance (GPCA) marked the re-opening of the Elizabeth Morse Genius (EMG) Children’s Garden at the Garfield Park Conservatory & Gardens with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by local families today. Located at 300 N. Central Park Avenue in Chicago, the Garfield Park Conservatory is one of the largest greenhouse conservatories in the United States Blending nature, science, play and imagination, the ...

CHICAGO, IL - As the construction industry recognizes Safety Week 2026 under the theme “All In Together,” here at F.H. Paschen, we are focusing on the practical habits that protect our teams from the Great Lakes to the Mid-Atlantic and down to the Gulf Coast. While this important week serves as an industry-wide checkpoint and a moment to rally our colleagues, one thing will never change: our approach to safety everyday is a permanent and critical operational standard for F.H. ...

Opinion piece published in Construction Dive by William Rocha, Vice President and head of Texas for F.H. Paschen. Texas is growing at a pace few states can match. Since 2020, the state has added more than 2.5 million new residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, with large cities like Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston adding almost 100,000 new residents in each of the past five years. With that population surge, elected officials are now driving one of the largest infrastructure ...

CHICAGO, IL - National infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen marked the 11th year of its Paschen Engineering Scholars Program this week, welcoming a new class of students and graduating six seniors from the Chicago-based initiative. Launched in 2015 as a partnership with George Westinghouse College Prep, a selective-enrollment high school operated by the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) District in the Garfield Park neighborhood, the Paschen Scholars program provides hands-on construction and engineering experience to students. To date, more than 60 CPS ...

CHICAGO, IL - F.H. Paschen, a leader in infrastructure construction, along with Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates (WJE) recently hosted “Built to Perform: A Modern Approach to Concrete Design, Construction, & Evaluation.” This full-day technical seminar, held on April 9th at the FHP Headquarters in Chicago, underscores a shared commitment to workforce development and the continuous advancement of the construction industry. The day-long educational event features six specialized presentations led by industry experts, covering critical topics such as the strengthening of ...

HOUSTON, TX - Infrastructure construction company F.H. Paschen began work this week on the Taxiway SF Bridge Retaining Wall Erosion Repairs at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), America’s 15th busiest airport which handles more than 700 domestic and international flights daily. The $2.2 million construction project for the Houston Airport System focuses on restoring and protecting critical ground aviation infrastructure that has been impacted by erosion over time. The two-month project involves stabilizing affected ground areas by removing damaged soil ...

DETROIT, MI – F.H. Paschen, a leader in infrastructure construction, announced a major expansion with a ribbon-cutting for a new Downtown Detroit office along the river at the Talon Center to support its rapid growth in the Michigan market. Located at 100 River Place Drive, Suite 200 East, the new office space triples the size of the company’s previous downtown footprint. With more than $300 million in new regional business growth, the construction firm is scaling up its office space ...

Canal Street Viaduct Rehabilitation – Adams Street to Jackson Boulevard (Canal 1) Construction began in May 2023, and the viaduct has been open for vehicles and pedestrians since December 2025. Two northbound lanes are open and accessible from eastbound Jackson, and full pedestrian access is available at both the Jackson and Adams intersections. Remaining work involves improvements at Union Station, including suspended ceiling work and interior finishes. Throughout construction, close coordination with the Chicago Department of Transportation, Amtrak, and Union ...

Chicago, IL - National infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen hosted its annual National JOC Summit in Chicago, Illinois this week, bringing together company leaders from across the country to advance the future of Job Order Contracting (JOC). The three-day event focused on standardizing operations and sharing best practices to improve project delivery for clients nationwide. As the nation’s premier JOC contractor, F.H. Paschen provides fast and cost-effective construction solutions for renovations and repairs. The summit serves as a collaborative forum for ...

South Bend, IN - General Contractor F.H. Paschen has reached a major milestone in the renovation of the Indiana National Guard South Bend Armory at 2402 E. Rose Street in South Bend, Indiana. The facility, also known as the CPT Lyle J. Thompson USARC, serves as the temporary home for 130 soldiers of an Indiana Army National Guard Engineering Company. As one of more than 60 armories across Indiana, the South Bend Armory on Rose Street has sat vacant for ...

CHICAGO, IL —  Nationally-recognized builder F.H. Paschen today released a new report:  2026 Trends in School Construction.  This education-industry construction guidebook is the latest installment of the company’s five-part 2026 Construction Trends Educational Series.   Covering infrastructure, housing, parks and recreation, municipal and education construction, the 2026 Construction Trends Series from F.H. Paschen highlights emerging trends that are defining the built environment in 2026 and provides a roadmap for public agencies and administrators to build better communities and public progress. This ...

CHICAGO, IL —   From digital city halls and modernized public safety facilities to the rise of maintenance-free materials, local governments are fundamentally changing how they build. These findings are part of a new guidebook released today by F.H. Paschen: 2026 Trends in Municipal Construction. This publication is the fourth installment of the company’s five-part 2026 Construction Trends Series, which provides a roadmap for public agencies to build better communities. The newly published municipal-government guide identifies five major shifts in how ...

CHICAGO, IL —  Smart technology for lighting, irrigation and security, multi-use trails, a new procurement method and designing hybrid recreation centers are among the top priorities defining parks and recreation spaces in America in 2026. These findings are part of a new report released today by infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen: 2026 Trends in Parks & Recreation Construction. This publication is the third installment of the company’s five-part 2026 Construction Trends Series, which provides a roadmap for public agencies to build ...

CHICAGO, IL —  Nationally-recognized builder F.H. Paschen released a new report today:  2026 Trends in Government Multi-Family Housing Construction.  This housing-industry guidebook is the latest installment of the company’s five-part 2026 Construction Trends Educational Series.   The report provides a roadmap for local officials looking to navigate the growing demand for affordable and accessible housing in their communities.  It identifies five major shifts shaping the government-housing industry, including the rise of workforce housing for the “missing middle”, the adaptation of senior ...

CHICAGO, IL —  From the rise of flexible learning environments and "aging in place" housing to the integration of smart technology in public parks, new trends across public-sector construction in America are defining the built environment in 2026. These shifts in infrastructure, housing, parks and recreation, municipal, and education construction are the focus of a new five-part series released today by nationally-recognized infrastructure builder F.H. Paschen. The recently-published collection provides public agencies and administrators with a comprehensive roadmap to navigate ...

CHICAGO, IL — Nationally-recognized builder F.H. Paschen today announced the release of 6 Trends Shaping Public Infrastructure in 2026, a comprehensive guide designed to help government administrators and job owners navigate the complex landscape of modern infrastructure construction. This publication marks the first installment in a new five-part thought leadership series dedicated to the trends defining the built environment in 2026. The inaugural guide outlines critical shifts in the industry, including the surge of federal funding requiring strict compliance, the ...

CHICAGO, IL — Nationally-recognized builder F.H. Paschen continued its 115-year legacy as a national infrastructure leader with growth across core sectors, on-site innovations and industry recognition in 2025. Headquartered in Chicago with offices across more than ten states, F.H. Paschen builds the bridges, transit systems, airports, schools, public safety facilities and water plants that keep American communities moving. "Our momentum continued in 2025 across our core markets, while our rankings as one of the largest builders in America reflect the ...

Merrillville, IN — The U.S. Minority Contractors Association (USMCA), Indiana-Kentucky Chapter and member F.H. Paschen, today announced that United States Congressman Frank Mrvan (IN-1) has received the 2025 National Legislative Excellence Award. The presentation took place at the newly-opened F.H. Paschen Merrillville office, located within the Congressman’s district. This award recognizes Congressman Mrvan’s steadfast commitment to the success of small, disadvantaged businesses and contractors throughout the country and right here in Indiana. The award specifically recognizes Congressman Mrvan’s efforts to ...