Our Work

Right-Sized, Self-Performed Delivery

E.S. Wagner Co. goes far beyond standard highway construction. We are a highly diversified, self-performing heavy civil contractor operating across industrial, energy, and infrastructure markets, delivering complex projects through modern solutions including design-build. Utilizing our fleet of specialized equipment and employing our experienced field professionals, we maintain total control over project safety, schedule, and quality from start to finish.

Industries. Expertise. Results.

We deliver full-scale heavy civil solutions across eight primary sectors, bringing our own crew and specialized fleet to every jobsite.

Commercial & Industrial

Comprehensive self-performed site development solutions, utilizing our expansive fleet of specialized equipment.

Transportation

Decades of experience in building, improving, and maintaining critical interstate road and bridge infrastructure.

Airport Construction

Constructing and enhancing the infrastructure essential for efficient airport operations in the highly complex and technical environment of active airfields.

Water & Wastewater Facilities

Comprehensive water treatment infrastructure solutions, self-performed across multiple disciplines to deliver reliable, efficient systems.

Energy Services

Turnkey site development and heavy civil construction services that support the reliable delivery of power, utility, and energy infrastructure.

Rail Facilities

Developing and improving rail and intermodal infrastructure, delivering safe, efficient facilities that keep freight and transportation networks moving.

Earthen Containment

Specialized construction of engineered containment systems designed to provide long-term retention, environmental protection, durability, and performance.

Flood Control Systems

Building resilient flood control infrastructure that safeguards communities, critical assets, and natural resources from changing water conditions.

Browse by Market

“We deliver a quality project, on time, on budget.”
— Lewis “John” Wagner, Chairman of the Board

What We Do

The Value We Bring.

From concept to completion, E.S. Wagner Co. delivers integrated infrastructure solutions that reduce risk, improve constructability, and provide clients with greater certainty in cost, schedule, quality, and performance.

Our Core Disciplines

Site Preparation | Development

Our expertise transforms raw land into construction-ready sites through precise planning, grading, coordination, and execution, ensuring schedule certainty and long-term performance.

Erosion and Sediment Control

Protecting project sites, surrounding waterways, and ensuring regulatory compliance through proactive solutions that minimize environmental risk and support uninterrupted construction progress.

Mass Earthwork | Grading

Moving millions of cubic yards with urgency and efficiency, while delivering a finished project to exacting tolerances, our mass earthwork and grading expertise optimizes schedules, reduces risk, and drives successful project delivery.

Excavation

Performing specialty excavation to fit any site condition or geology, from expansive site developments to highly restricted facility expansions in any soil, from mass rock formations to organic material deposits.

Shoreline Protection Systems

Beautifying, stabilizing, and preserving our shorelines and waterways through decades of experience, innovative concepts, and diverse capabilities, facilitating the optimum approach in any condition.

Stormwater Management Systems

Controlling runoff, protecting infrastructure, and supporting regulatory compliance, our stormwater management experience promotes site performance and reduces risk and schedule impacts.

Underground Utility Infrastructure

We build the essential infrastructure beneath the surface that enables fully functional facilities above it.

Deep Foundations | Piling

Our foundation support capabilities allow for the optimum approach to providing the strength and stability required for complex structures, creating a reliable platform for long-term performance.

Structural Concrete

Delivering durable, high-performance concrete structures through expert planning, precision placement, and quality craftsmanship that support long-term structural integrity.

Shoring

Providing safe, reliable support systems that protect workers, stabilize excavations, and enable efficient construction in complex environments.

Bridge Construction

Building critical transportation infrastructure with proven expertise, innovative solutions, and precise execution that connect communities and support long-term mobility.

Concrete Paving

Constructing durable, high-quality rigid pavement systems that withstand heavy use, optimize performance, and deliver lasting value for transportation and site infrastructure projects.

Precon Services

Estimating & Cost Planning

Our past experience and detailed historical data allow us to quickly produce accurate and complete cost estimates during project planning and budgetary stages, even when the available details are limited.

Value Engineering

Applying a continuous improvement model, we constantly look for avenues to provide concepts that enhance quality, performance, and efficiency of delivery while reducing cost.

Constructability Review

During the design development stage, we readily review initial concepts and offer practical alternatives that improve constructability, shorten schedules, and reduce cost.

Scheduling & Phasing

Our detailed approach to every project, which includes a CPM schedule during the pursuit stage, offers us the opportunity to modify schedules to deliver our client’s critical milestones in the most efficient, constructible, and cost-competitive sequence.

Earthwork Analysis and Optimization

Drawing on decades of experience excavating and embanking soils of variable geologies and properties, we offer earthwork balancing design solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for costly material import or off-site disposal.

Utility Coordination

Since utilities have the potential to completely impede project progress, we leverage past relationships and coordinate with providers, facilitating practical and realistic relocation solutions that maintain the critical path.

Risk Assessment

Risk limitation is the goal of every client we serve, and our detailed pre-construction approach allows us to understand, communicate, and mitigate potential risks before they become reality during construction.

BIM, Modeling & Digital Construction Support

Utilizing the latest in technology, our engineering staff produces 3D models during the pre-construction phase to aid in cost estimating, management of design revisions, and concept rendering, promoting global project understanding and a collaborative approach.

Alternative Project Delivery Methods

Design-Build

Drawing on decades of design-build experience and with the ability to advance alternative technical concepts incorporated into past projects from across our geographic footprint, we provide constructible fixed-price solutions without the necessity for excessive risk allowances.

Progressive Design-Build

Almost eighty years spent in the construction industry have allowed us to establish relationships with top design firms across numerous sectors, allowing us to partner with the best organizations to provide our clients a purpose-built Progressive Design-Build project team that capitalizes on the specialties of our company as well as our engineering colleagues.

CMGC

We are passionate about opportunities that allow us to apply our diverse experience and technical capabilities to pre-construction consultation, and our staff can quickly provide estimate refinement and risk assessment, providing for a seamless transition into the construction phase of a Construction Manager/General Contractor project, without financial or schedule-driven surprises.

Explore Our Services

“We look for the projects that not just everyone can build because we believe that’s where we provide the greatest benefit and ultimately the greatest value to the clients we serve.”
— John C. Wagner, P.E., President

600+

Owned Equipment

11

In-House P.E.’s

8

Sectors Served

$250K–$250M

Project Scale

LEADING CONSUMER PAPER PRODUCTS MANUFACTURER — SITE DEVELOPMENT, DRIVEN PILE FOUNDATIONS, AND PROGRESSIVE DESIGN-BUILD RAW WATER/WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY

CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT — FOURTH PARALLEL RUNWAY

STARPLUS ENERGY — SITE DEVELOPMENT FOR EV BATTERY MANUFACTURING PLANT

I-75 DOWNTOWN TOLEDO — I-75 RECONSTRUCTION

GREENSBORO EASTERN LOOP — FROM US 29 TO SR-2303

CLEVELAND CLIFFS | IRON UNITS — LARGE-SCALE SITE DEVELOPMENT FOR HBI PLANT

E-3 INTERNATIONAL PARK STORAGE BASIN — TOLEDO WATERWAYS INITIATIVE PH3 – CITY OF TOLEDO

HARRISON COUNTY FRACTIONATION HUB — SITE DEVELOPMENT FOR STORAGE AND RAIL FACILITY – PH I & II

RESTORATION OF NORTH/SOUTH SEAWALLS — PERRY’S VICTORY & INTERNATIONAL PEACE MEMORIAL – NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS — INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT — THIRD PARALLEL RUNWAY

LIMA UP GROUND RESERVOIR

NORFOLK SOUTHERN BIRMINGHAM — REGIONAL INTERMODAL FACILITY