Company Overview

Executive Management :: Resources :: Employment

Since 1928, Alexander has built a reputation of quality, integrity, and service in the Central Pennsylvania construction industry.  Formed by H.B. Alexander, a civil engineer, the firm has grown steadily for the past 80 years.  Alexander serves clients in the education, health care, retail, government, private, and corporate markets and provides a range of services from budgeting during preconstruction, to full service construction management and general contracting. 

In 1928, Civil Engineer H.B. Alexander founded an engineering and contracting firm at 3612 Rutherford Street, Paxtang, PA. In 1930, Alexander's second year in business, annual profits increased nearly four-fold from the first year, allowing the firm to move to its current location at 315 Vaughn Street, Harrisburg, PA. After a slump during the Great Depression, Alexander continued to build the company, hiring an office manager and a stenographer in 1939.

In 1940, H.B. formed a partnership with his son Wallace called H.B. Alexander & Son. During the post-war era, the company thrived on suburban development, building many schools and churches in the area and receiving its first million dollar contract—the renovation and expansion of Polyclinic Hospital, Harrisburg, PA in 1952. Wallace assumed control of day-to-day operations so that H.B., still President, could be involved in a nationwide campaign for safe working conditions in the construction industry. Today, the top construction safety award for the national Associated General Contractors of America, Inc. is the H.B. Alexander Memorial Award in recognition of his dedicated efforts.

After H.B.'s death in 1963, Wallace Alexander became president, and the firm continued to work in the school market, constructing Mechanicsburg Middle School and Cedar Cliff High School. A breakthrough came when Alexander was awarded the contract for the Catherine S. Hershey Middle School of the Milton Hershey School—equal to more than $20 million in today's dollars. Successful completion of this high profile project put Alexander in a position to compete for any project, regardless of size, in Central Pennsylvania.

Bill Alexander joined the firm in 1969, at a key point—the Catherine S. Hershey Middle School project had led to extensive work throughout Hershey, PA, including the Hershey Hotel, Hersheypark, and Hershey Chocolate Factory. This culminated in the construction of Founder's Hall, a premiere private construction project.

During the 1970's Alexander continued to grow in size and skill, taking on more difficult and complicated construction projects. Alexander built many apartments across the state of Pennsylvania, several elements for Three Mile Island, and 333 Market Street in Harrisburg. Later in the 1970s, Alexander began to offer construction management services and launched into the healthcare market.

By 1980, armed with 50 years of experience and an impeccable reputation, H.B. Alexander expanded its commercial development work to serve clients such as AT&T, Hershey Foods, and AMP. This led to a substantial increase in work volume. Then, in 1994, H.B. Alexander & Son, Inc. joined with Shoemaker Holdings, Inc. of West Conshohocken, PA as an equity partner to form Alexander Constructors. This giving Alexander an even deeper well of experience, allowing the two firms to share resources and niched talents.  Further expansion occurred in 2003 when Alexander became a part of Butz Enterprises, Inc., Allentown.  Today, the combined companies of Alexander, Alvin H. Butz, Inc., and Shoemaker Construction Co. have the resources to provide services unparalleled in the industry.