Award-Winning Construction Since 1969
Langston Construction’s recognition record spans three independent third-party ranking categories. National safety (AGC CSEA 1st Place Utility Division 2026 at the AGC National Convention). Workplace culture (Best Places to Work in America 2024 and 2025, #1 in SC 2024). Growth (Inc. 5000 in 2020 and 2021, multiple SC 25 Fastest Growing appearances). CAGC Presidential Safety Award earned continuously from 1991 to present.
Awards
Marquee Recognitions
Headline awards from each category, with the originating ranking body and the documented rank. Every entry below is verifiable in the public press release, ranking list, or award ceremony archive of the awarding organization.
Safety recognition
National + state safety honors
Safety is Langston’s most extensively recognized category. The 2026 AGC CSEA Utility Division 1st Place award is the current headline. The CAGC Presidential Safety Award has been earned continuously from 1991 to present (with 2019 listed as the lone exception in the legacy record). See the full safety program page for program description and EHS credentialing.
AGC Construction Safety Excellence Award
Associated General Contractors of America
- 20261st Place – Utility Div.
- 20191st Runner Up – Building (600k hrs)
- 20101st Place – Municipal (100k hrs)
CAGC Construction Safety Excellence Award
Carolinas AGC
- 20242nd Runner Up – Utility Infra.
- 20232nd Runner Up – Utility Infra.
- 20212nd Runner Up – Building
- 20091st Place – Building
- 20081st Place – Building
- 20071st Place – Building
CAGC Presidential Safety Award
Carolinas AGC – Continuous since 1991
- 2024Awarded
- 2023Awarded
- 2022Awarded
- 2021Awarded
- 2020Awarded
- 1991 – present30+ year record
OSHA / SC LLR Gleaming Star
OSHA + SC Dept. of Labor, Licensing & Regulation
- 2019Gleaming Star Award
- 2022SC LLR Safety Award
Workplace culture awards
Best Places to Work + HR recognition
Workplace culture rankings come from anonymous employee surveys plus employer policy reviews. They signal retention, internal advancement, benefits depth, and crew stability. For utility and infrastructure programs that run for years, those signals translate directly to continuity of personnel on the work. Langston’s culture awards span four years of Best Places to Work in SC rankings, two consecutive years of Best Places to Work in America, and individual HR-leadership recognition by the Carolinas AGC.
Best Places to Work in America
SC Biz News – National Ranking
- 2025#14
- 2024#8
Best Places to Work in SC
SC Biz News – Statewide
- 2025#6
- 2024#1
- 2023#26
- 2022#7
Best Contractors to Work For
ForConstructionPros.com
- 2021Recognized
CAGC Excellence in HR Leadership
Carolinas AGC
- 2026Mary-Allyson Chauvin – Winner
- RecentCAGC Excellence in HR Award
Growth recognition
National + state growth rankings
Growth recognition is sourced from third-party financial review and ranking processes. These awards signal that Langston has scaled at a rate that places it among the fastest-growing private companies regionally and nationally, with the operational maturity to absorb additional contract volume. Back-to-back Inc. 5000 appearances in 2020 and 2021 are paired with back-to-back SC 25 Fastest Growing rankings in the same years, plus two Roaring 20’s Fastest Growing appearances and an SC Excellence in Business Award. Two independent ranking bodies producing concurrent growth recognition reinforces the durability of the underlying business performance.
Inc. 5000 Top Private Companies
Inc. Magazine – National Ranking
- 2021#4354
- 2020#4144
SC 25 Fastest Growing Companies
Greenville Business Magazine
- 2021#27
- 2020#13
Roaring 20’s Fastest Growing
SC Biz News
- 2020#10
- 2018#20
SC Excellence in Business Award
Greenville Business Magazine
- 2021Recognized
News coverage of these awards
Archive Posts
Every award listed above has a corresponding announcement post in the Langston news archive. The posts below link to the original announcement, photos from the event, and contemporaneous reporting at the time the award was received.