Image-Disney Concert Hall by Carol Highsmith edit-2

The M.A. Mortenson Company, more commonly known under its Mortenson Construction brand, is an American construction company based in

Minneapolis Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origins ...

Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...

, with 2014 sales of (estimated) $3 billion.

Sports venues

Mortenson is noted as a general contractor that has built numerous sports stadiums and arenas, including

U.S. Bank Stadium U.S. Bank Stadium is an enclosed stadium located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Built on the former site of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the indoor stadium opened in 2016 and is the home of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Footbal ...

, Fiserv Forum, and Chase Center. As of 2014, the company had built over 150 entertainment and sports venues in the United States; by 2018, that number had grown to 170, at a valuation of $11 billion, which made Mortenson the second largest sports arena builder in the country; and by 2023, more than 230 such venues had been built, valued at $15 billion. Its most recent completed sports stadium project is the $1.9 billion

Allegiant Stadium Allegiant Stadium is a domed stadium located in Paradise, Nevada. It is the home stadium for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL), the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Rebels college football team, the Las Ve ...

, home to the Las Vegas Raiders and UNLV Rebels football team, and slated for 2024 is a proposed $1.5 billion ballpark, also in Las Vegas, that will house the relocated Oakland Athletics.

Renewable energy

Mortenson Construction is also active in the field of

renewable energy Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale. It includes sources such as sunlight, wind, the movement of water, and geothermal heat. Although most renewable energy ...

, having started in 1995 with a single wind turbine. In the area of wind energy, Mortenson received the contract for the 300 MW Blackspring Ridge Wind Project in Carmangay,

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

, Canada for EDF-EN Canada. Mortenson installed a total of 15,000 megawatts of wind power by 2015. Mortenson built the Alamo 6 Solar and the Pearl Solar fields in Texas, with over 438,000 and 203,000 panels, respectively, atop 1,797 acres of land in

Pecos County Pecos County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 15,193. The county seat is Fort Stockton. The county was created in 1871 and organized in 1875.. By Glenn Justice and John Leffler. Retriev ...

In 2014, with an addition of 512.9 megawatts

solar power Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using the photovoltaic e ...

capacity, Mortenson was the second largest US company after First Solar (1,023 megawatts) and ahead of SolarCity ( 502 megawatts). One of the largest projects is the construction of the solar power plants

Solar Star Solar Star is a 579-megawatt ( MWAC) photovoltaic power station near Rosamond, California, United States, that is operated and maintained by SunPower Services. When completed in June 2015, it was the world's largest solar farm in terms of instal ...

I and II in Rosamond,

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

with a total of 597 MW of output that can generate electricity for 255,000 households.

History

The company was founded in Richfield, Minnesota in April 1954 by M. A. Mortenson, Sr., formerly a vice president with the D'Arcy Leck Construction Co. While with D'Arcy Leck, Mortenson had supervised the construction of several local schools, a veterinary building on the farm campus of the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

, and other industrial and commercial sites.

References

{{reflist Construction and civil engineering companies