OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. – Graycor announces its recognition for the fifth consecutive year in Associated Builders and Contractors’ 2025 Top Performers, an annual publication that recognizes member contractors’ outstanding achievements in safety, quality, merit, project excellence and special designations ranked by number of hours worked. In addition, the company was named a Top General Contractor among the 2025 Top Performers.

As an ABC Top Performer, Graycor achieved Diamond status in ABC’s STEP Safety Management System®, which helps industry-leading contractors achieve incident rates nearly six times safer than the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average, according to ABC’s Safety Performance Report. Graycor also earned ABC’s Accredited Quality Contractor credential, which recognizes excellence in quality, safety performance, talent management – including inclusion, diversity and merit – craft and management education and community relations.

Over the past three years alone, Graycor has received multiple awards, including ABC’s Accredited Quality Contractor credential; ABC’s Top Performer honor in 2024; ABC’s Top Performer honor and National Safety Excellence Award in 2023; four ABC Carolinas Excellence in Construction awards in 2023; and the Engineering News-Record Top 250 International Contractors Award and the Construction Users Roundtable’s Construction Industry Safety Excellence Award in 2022.

The seventh annual ABC Top Performers lists include diverse merit shop businesses large and small, from women-owned, veteran-owned and minority-owned businesses and service-disabled firms to disadvantaged business enterprises across the country.

Through robust programs like STEP and AQC, Graycor demonstrates its commitment to:

  • Sustaining and growing its business with integrity, honesty and innovation.
  • Offering market-competitive employee packages and an outstanding company culture.
  • Industry-leading safety practices and leadership with accountability at all levels.
  • Workforce development, education, mentorship and creating career opportunities.
  • A work environment that is inclusive and advances diversity and inclusion through its culture as well as employee development efforts.