GE Johnson’s projects include the Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center at 14,115 feet. (Courtesy City of Colorado Springs)
Nearly 60 years after general contractor GE Johnson was founded in Colorado Springs, the firm’s name has sunset.
The company said this week it is now operating as DPR Construction, taking on the name of the California-based firm that acquired it in September 2021.
GE Johnson had been operating as a standalone unit until earlier this week, according to Scott Miller, who joined the company as an intern in 2000 and now works as DPR’s Mountain State leader.
“This really combines our local relationships with (DPR’s) national reach and expertise,” Miller said.
Scott Miller
Miller said the integration brings roughly 500 GE Johnson employees — split across offices in Denver, Colorado Springs and Jackson, Wyoming — into DPR’s stable of over 10,000. They are now a part of the DPR’s central region, which also includes offices in Austin and Dallas.
“We’re going to be covering the same territory that GE Johnson has always covered but now with all these resources,” Miller said, noting DPR is one of the largest construction companies in the country. “We’ve certainly ramped up our ability to scale and the things that we offer.”
Those resources include teams that solely focus on each of the firm’s core markets, like health care or hospitality. DPR’s supply chain connections will also help expedite product sourcing, which Miller said largely fell on the shoulders of GE Johnson’s subcontractors in the past.
“We can tap into those experts at any given time now so there’s nothing we can’t provide to a customer,” he said. “In not being one DPR, we were not as succinct as we would’ve liked to be.”
Gil Johnson, who died in 2000, founded GE Johnson in 1967. In 1997, his son, Jim, took over as CEO and President, and he still remains with DPR as an advisor.
The firm’s projects include the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum and Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center in Colorado Springs. It also built several hospitals in the Denver metro area, including Adventist in both Castle Rock and Parker.
Miller said GE Johnson’s revenue consistently outpaced national companies who operated within the Colorado and Wyoming markets.
When DPR acquired the company in 2021, he said, the plan was always to undertake slow, intentional integration.
“The similarities with them were uncanny,” Miller said. “As we learned more and more about DPR and the resources and tech that they offer, we really wanted to be one DPR and not live in two different worlds.”
GE Johnson’s projects include the Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center at 14,115 feet. (Courtesy City of Colorado Springs)
Nearly 60 years after general contractor GE Johnson was founded in Colorado Springs, the firm’s name has sunset.
The company said this week it is now operating as DPR Construction, taking on the name of the California-based firm that acquired it in September 2021.
GE Johnson had been operating as a standalone unit until earlier this week, according to Scott Miller, who joined the company as an intern in 2000 and now works as DPR’s Mountain State leader.
“This really combines our local relationships with (DPR’s) national reach and expertise,” Miller said.
Scott Miller
Miller said the integration brings roughly 500 GE Johnson employees — split across offices in Denver, Colorado Springs and Jackson, Wyoming — into DPR’s stable of over 10,000. They are now a part of the DPR’s central region, which also includes offices in Austin and Dallas.
“We’re going to be covering the same territory that GE Johnson has always covered but now with all these resources,” Miller said, noting DPR is one of the largest construction companies in the country. “We’ve certainly ramped up our ability to scale and the things that we offer.”
Those resources include teams that solely focus on each of the firm’s core markets, like health care or hospitality. DPR’s supply chain connections will also help expedite product sourcing, which Miller said largely fell on the shoulders of GE Johnson’s subcontractors in the past.
“We can tap into those experts at any given time now so there’s nothing we can’t provide to a customer,” he said. “In not being one DPR, we were not as succinct as we would’ve liked to be.”
Gil Johnson, who died in 2000, founded GE Johnson in 1967. In 1997, his son, Jim, took over as CEO and President, and he still remains with DPR as an advisor.
The firm’s projects include the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum and Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center in Colorado Springs. It also built several hospitals in the Denver metro area, including Adventist in both Castle Rock and Parker.
Miller said GE Johnson’s revenue consistently outpaced national companies who operated within the Colorado and Wyoming markets.
When DPR acquired the company in 2021, he said, the plan was always to undertake slow, intentional integration.
“The similarities with them were uncanny,” Miller said. “As we learned more and more about DPR and the resources and tech that they offer, we really wanted to be one DPR and not live in two different worlds.”
