The Haskell Company is Florida's largest privately held construction company and Florida's 52nd largest private company. The Engineering News-Record named Haskell a top GREEN contractor and they rank among the top design/build firms in the US. Corporate headquarters are in Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...

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History

Preston Haskell

Preston Haskell

Preston Hampton Haskell, III is founder and chairman of The Haskell Company, the largest privately held construction company in Florida and a top design/build firm in the United States. He is also a minority owner of the National Football League Jacksonville Jaguars.-Education:Haskell was born in...

 attended Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 and earned a Civil engineering

Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...

 degree with honors in 1960; received an MBA

Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...

 with distinction from Harvard in 1962 and continued his studies at MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

 in Building Engineering

Architectural engineering

Architectural engineering, also known as building engineering, is the application of engineering principles and technology to building design and construction...

 and Construction

Construction

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. When Haskell left MIT, he settled in Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...

 and was employed by the S. S. Jacobs Company. Developer James Winston encouraged Haskell to break out on his own and gave the Preston H. Haskell Company their first project in 1965. The company successfully designed and built a $1 million apartment complex at Atlantic Beach

Atlantic Beach, Florida

Atlantic Beach, a city in Duval County, Florida, is the northernmost of the Jacksonville Beaches communities. When the majority of communities in Duval County consolidated with Jacksonville, Florida in 1968, Atlantic Beach, along with Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach, and Baldwin, Florida,...

 and developed a reputation for quality work on time and within budget.

Haskell’s business increased in the 1970s as many Fortune 500

Fortune 500

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 Corporations recognized the value of a single provider for their critical construction projects. The company's name was shortened to The Haskell Company in 1978, when a new logo was unveiled and the phrase, “Architects/Engineers/Contractors” was added. Preston Haskell stated:

“(The tagline was) significant. This was the first time the company was identified as an integrated, in-house design-build firm practicing all three disciplines. It coincided with enactment by the Florida Legislature of legislation allowing the practice of architecture by a corporation.”

Haskell changed its internal organization in the 1990s to target market segments with the most potential.
They registered the phrase, “America’s Design-Build Leader” as a trademark and it replaced “Architects/Engineers/Contractors” on the company logo.
Satellite offices in Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

, Atlanta, GA and Mexico City

Mexico City

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 were opened to expand the company's presence.

New leadership

Preston Haskell met Steve Halverson through their mutual affiliation with the Design-Build Institute of America, and was so impressed by him that he hired Halverson in 1999 to be his successor as President and CEO of The Haskell Company. Preston Haskell remained Chairman, but the operation of the firm was turned over to Halverson, who increased revenue by 74% during his first eight years. According to Preston Haskell: "He's doing awfully well."

Corporate responsibility

The company believes in giving back to the community; five percent of the company's profits are directed to charity each year. The corporate office building is made available to civic and other groups for evening meetings and special events. They also value their employees. New President Steve Halverson placed an increased emphasis on safety, which resulted in an incident (injury) rate of 0.28 in 2007, down from 3.15 in 1999. The standard norm for the industry was 6.1 in 2007.

Operations

Haskell performs Design/build, Construction management

Construction management

Construction Project Management is the overall planning, coordination and control of a project from inception to completion aimed at meeting a client’s requirements in order to produce a functionally and financially viable project that will be complete mingement is project management that applies...

, Facility management

Facility management

Facility management is an interdisciplinary field primarily devoted to the maintenance and care of commercial or institutional buildings, such as hospitals, hotels, office complexes, arenas, schools or convention centers...

, Interior design

Interior design

Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...

, Steel fabrication

Fabrication (metal)

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, infrastructure

Infrastructure

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 & real estate

Real estate

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 services for commercial, industrial & institutional facilities.

Industry segments include:

Aviation Commercial Construction Mgmt Development Services Distribution Education Food & Beverage

Government Green Building Healthcare Interiors International Manufacturing Master Planning Military

Parking Process Services Public-Private Partnerships Senior Living Site Sports & Entertainment Transportation Water & Wastewater

The employee-owned company's 1,500 completed projects in 45 years span the Western Hemisphere

Western Hemisphere

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. Highly visible projects have included the Daytona International Speedway

Daytona International Speedway

Daytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. Since opening in 1959, it has been the home of the Daytona 500, one of the most prestigious races in NASCAR. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosts races of ARCA, AMA Superbike, Grand-Am and Motocross...

 and Jacksonville Municipal Stadium (home of the NFL Jaguars

Jacksonville Jaguars

The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

). Regional offices are located in Pembroke Pines, Florida

Pembroke Pines, Florida

Pembroke Pines is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. The city had a population of 154,750 at the 2010 census, making it the second most populous city in Broward County, the tenth most populous in Florida, and the 150th most populous in the United States...

 (Tampa); Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

 and Mexico City

Mexico City

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Recognition & Awards

The company has won scores of awards for their projects.
Company founder Preston Haskell was honored with the Brunelleschi Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 from the Design-Build Institute of America.

The Engineering News-Record magazine ranked Haskell as No. 14 in its Top 50 Green Contractors for 2007 (US) list and 20th in its Top 100 Design/Build firms in the US (2007). Florida Trend Magazine ranked Haskell as the 39th largest privately-held company in Florida for 2007 and the Business Journal's 36th fastest-growing private company.