A US-based construction company that built parts of and performed maintenance on the US–Mexico border barrier.
Granite Construction Inc, headquartered in Watsonville, Calif., is a construction and construction materials company that specializes in infrastructure projects.
Granite Construction built and repaired multiple sections of the U.S.–Mexico border between 2008 and 2017. In 2011, the company repaired 2.8 miles of border fence in Nogales, Ariz., under an $11.6 million contract. In 2015, the company contracted with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for repaving a section of highway located at a Border Patrol Station in Bisbee, Ariz., and completed work on replacing 7.5 miles of “outdated” border fencing in nearby Naco, Ariz. at an estimated cost of $44.7 million.
In July 2023, under a larger $4.1 billion border infrastructure contract for “aid[ing] Customs and Border Protection efforts in securing U.S. borders through infrastructure projects such as border fence and road construction,” CBP awarded Granite Construction a small contract for developing a design report on mesh barriers for use at physical borders. This contract expired in December 2023.
Granite Construction also participated in building previous iterations of the barrier along the U.S.–Mexico border. In 2007, the company was subcontracted by Michael Baker International, the primary contractor for U.S.–Mexico border design and construction at the time, to build parts of the barrier. As part of this project, CBP awarded Granite Construction several contracts for building the border fence in Nogales, Ariz., Imperial, Calif., El Paso, Texas, and elsewhere.