MYR Group Inc. (MYR Group) provides specialty electrical construction services.
Through the company’s subsidiaries, it serves the electric utility infrastructure, commercial and industrial construction markets. The company’s operations are conducted through wholly owned subsidiaries. The company primarily provides electrical construction services through a network of local offices located throughout the United States and Canada. The company provides a broad range of services, including design,...
MYR Group Inc. (MYR Group) provides specialty electrical construction services.
Through the company’s subsidiaries, it serves the electric utility infrastructure, commercial and industrial construction markets. The company’s operations are conducted through wholly owned subsidiaries. The company primarily provides electrical construction services through a network of local offices located throughout the United States and Canada. The company provides a broad range of services, including design, engineering, procurement, construction, upgrade, maintenance and repair services, with a particular focus on construction, maintenance and repair.
Segments
Through the company’s subsidiaries, it is a specialty contractor serving the electric utility infrastructure, commercial and industrial construction markets in the United States and Canada.
The company operates through two electrical contracting service segments, Transmission and Distribution (‘T&D’) and Commercial and Industrial (‘C&I’).
Transmission and Distribution segment.
The company operates in the transmission and distribution industry. The company is one of the largest U.S. contractors servicing the T&D sector of the electric utility industry. The company’s T&D segment provides a broad range of services on electric transmission and distribution networks and substation facilities, which include design, engineering, procurement, construction, upgrade and maintenance and repair services, with a particular focus on construction, maintenance and repair, to customers in the electric utility industry throughout the United States and Ontario, Canada. The company’s T&D services include the construction and maintenance of high voltage transmission lines, substations and lower voltage underground and overhead distribution systems, clean energy projects and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The T&D segment also provides emergency restoration services.
In the company’s T&D segment, it generally serves the electric utility industry and power generation companies as a prime contractor, through traditional design-bid-build or engineering, procurement and construction (‘EPC’) forms of project delivery. The company has long-standing relationships with many of its T&D customers who rely on the company to construct and maintain reliable electric and other utility infrastructure. The company also provides many services to its customers under multi-year master service agreements (‘MSAs’) and other variable-term service agreements.
Commercial and Industrial segment.
The company provides electrical contracting services for commercial and industrial construction. The company’s C&I segment provides services, such as the design, installation, maintenance and repair of commercial and industrial wiring, the installation of intelligent transportation systems, roadway lighting, signalization and electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the United States and western Canada. The company concentrates its efforts on projects where the company’s technical and project management expertise are critical to successful and timely execution. Typical C&I contracts cover electrical contracting services for airports, hospitals, data centers, hotels, stadiums, commercial and industrial facilities, clean energy projects, manufacturing plants, processing facilities, water/waste-water treatment facilities, mining facilities, intelligent transportation systems, roadway lighting, signalization and electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
In the company’s C&I segment, it generally provides the company’s electric construction and maintenance services as a subcontractor to general contractors in the C&I industry, but also contract directly with facility owners. The C&I segment has a diverse customer base with many long-standing relationships.
Subcontracting
The company is the prime contractor for the majority of its T&D projects; however, the company occasionally performs work as a subcontractor, and it may elect to do so from time to time on larger projects in order to manages the company’s execution risk. The company is a subcontractor to a general contractor for the majority of its C&I projects but may contract directly with facility owners. The company may utilize subcontractors to perform portions of its contracts and to manage workflow, particularly for design and engineering under both segments.
The company often works with subcontractors who are sole proprietorships or small business entities. Subcontractors normally provide their own employees, vehicles, tools and insurance coverages.
Trade Names and Intellectual Property
The company operates in the United States under a number of trade names, including: The L. E. Myers Co.; Harlan Electric Company; Great Southwestern Construction, Inc.; Sturgeon Electric Company, Inc.; MYR Energy Services, Inc.; E.S. Boulos Company; High Country Line Construction, Inc.; Sturgeon Electric California, LLC; GSW Integrated Services, LLC; Huen Electric, Inc. and CSI Electrical Contractors, Inc. the company operates in Canada under the following trade names: MYR Transmission Services Canada, Ltd.; Northern Transmission Services, Ltd; Western Pacific Enterprises Ltd; Powerline Plus Ltd. and PLP Redimix Ltd.
Equipment
The company operates a fleet of trucks and trailers, support vehicles, bulldozers, bucket trucks, digger derricks, cranes and specialty construction equipment, such as wire pullers and wire tensioning machines. The company also relies on specialized tooling, including stringing blocks, wire grips and presses. The company operates a centralized fleet facility, as well as numerous regional maintenance shops, that are staffed with mechanics and equipment managers who service its fleet. The company’s ability to internally service its fleet allows the company to reduce repair costs and the time equipment is out of service by eliminating both the need to ship equipment long distances for repair and dependence on third party maintenance providers. The company’s maintenance shops are also able to modify standard construction equipment to meet the specific needs of its specialty applications. The company is a final-stage manufacturer for several configurations of its specialty vehicles, and the company can often build the component on-site, which reduces its reliance on the company’s equipment suppliers.
The company’s fleet of equipment is generally managed by its centralized fleet management group. The company’s fleet is highly mobile, which gives it the ability to shift resources from region-to-region quickly and to effectively respond to customer needs or major weather events. The company’s centralized fleet management group is designed to enables it to optimize and maintains the company’s equipment to achieve the highest equipment utilization, which helps to maintain a competitive position with respect to its equipment costs. The company develops internal equipment rates that provides its business units. The fleet management group works with the company’s business units in prioritizing the use of its fleet assets. The fleet management group also manages the procurement and disposition of equipment and short-term rentals.
History
MYR Group Inc. was founded in 1891. The company was incorporated in 1982.