Minority-Owned Contractors and Engineers in Austin for 2026

If you are running a project in Austin and need a certified firm, this is the part of the directory built for you. Sixty-eight listings across the metro hold the City of Austin's MBE or WBE certification: general contractors, drywall and mechanical subs, civil and structural engineers, architects, surveyors, inspectors, suppliers and the consultants who keep a capital program on schedule.

Each links to its profile, where the certification shows the register it was read from and the date that register was exported.

Quick answer

1. For program and construction management, Foster CM Group.
2. For a general contractor, Corza Construction.
3. For City of Austin permitting, Civil Team Engineers.
4. For structural engineering, JQ+Tsen. For transportation and civil, Seiler/Lankes Group.
5. For architecture, Meeta Morrison Designs, Fusearch Studio or Smith & Company Architects.
6. For drywall, Millard Drywall or Castillo Drywall.
7. For mechanical and process piping, Mechanical & Process Systems or PMS-Patterson Mechanical Services.
8. For site work, Integrated Environment. For ready mix and hauling, Meta Ready Mix & Hauling.
9. For inspection and quality control, Safework or Boswell & Reyes International.
10. The Austin hub carries the full list, filterable by category.

What MBE and WBE actually mean here

The City of Austin certifies businesses as Minority Business Enterprise or Women Business Enterprise after reviewing who owns and controls them. It is a formal status with a review behind it, which is why listings carrying it show the city's own register as the source rather than the business's marketing.

Two things follow that are worth knowing before you use this list:

• The register records no ethnicity. A firm certified as an MBE carries Minority-owned on this site and nothing narrower. Where a business says more about itself on its own website, that sentence is quoted on its listing instead, and the tag is marked self-identified.
• A firm can hold both. Several here carry MBE and WBE together, which is why they appear under both headings.

The city also certifies Small Business Enterprise, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise and Airport Concessionaire DBE. Those are size and federal disadvantage programs rather than ownership claims, so they produce no ownership tag here.

General contractors and the trades

Corza Construction is based in Austin and builds across Texas for government agencies, commercial developers, general contractors and private clients. Creekside Contractors works out of Lockhart for residential and commercial clients.

Drywall and finishes. Millard Drywall & Acoustical Construction carries over a century of combined management experience. Castillo Drywall handles installation, repair, finishing and texture with a bilingual crew and more than twenty years behind it. Hagler & Kerr has done commercial and industrial painting, resinous flooring and special coatings since 2003.

Mechanical. Mechanical & Process Systems is licensed, insured and bonded, and installs medical gas, conventional plumbing, hydronic and process piping and HVAC ductwork. PMS-Patterson Mechanical Services has over forty years in residential and commercial mechanical work.

Site and materials. Integrated Environment, trading as We Dig Austin, does excavation, grading and underground utilities. Terra Nova Services manages highway, road and bridge construction from Buda. Meta Ready Mix & Hauling runs its own mixer fleet. SX7 Supply distributes construction materials from Leander.

Energy. Harris Energy Solutions designs commercial solar and energy systems for building owners and operators.

Engineering, architecture and surveying

Firm	What it does
Civil Team Engineers	Civil engineering, City of Austin permitting, wet utility design
B2z Engineering	PS&E through construction management, geotechnical drilling
JQ+Tsen	Structural engineering across Central Texas
Seiler/Lankes Group	Multidisciplinary transportation and civil engineering
Mesa Integrated Solutions	Civil engineering, surveying, 3D corridor modeling in OpenRoads
Meeta Morrison Designs	Architecture, custom residential and commercial
Fusearch Studio	Architecture for commercial, educational and industrial projects
Smith & Company Architects	Civic, K-12, higher education and transportation architecture
Sixthriver	Architecture and design for shared spaces
Circle V Landscape Architecture	Landscape architecture and community design

Inspection, safety and program support

Safework provides safety, quality control, inspection and resident engineering for transit, highway, bridge, road, port, water and wastewater and aviation clients. Boswell & Reyes International inspects and tests construction work in San Marcos, and its inspectors climb tanks and dive to inspect multi-million gallon reservoirs.

Foster CM Group runs capital programs from planning through closeout for public owners. Laurel Group advises public and private entities on planning and delivering infrastructure, led by two former Department of Transportation professionals. Beyond Logistics Services handles parking management, janitorial and transportation coordination on events, properties and government contracts.

Suppliers and the office

Facilities Resource has been Austin's commercial office furniture and installation dealer since 1997 and takes the whole turn-key job. Library Interiors of Texas supplies library furniture, shelving and design. Sunbelt Supply is the industrial hardware supplier in Round Rock with access to hard-to-find parts. Business Assets Enterprises makes custom packaging in corrugated, foam and paperboard from Pflugerville.

For the interiors: Edwards + Mulhausen Interior Design works in healthcare, higher education and corporate, and CDC Carpets & Interiors has done natural fiber flooring since 1981.

How to use this list on a bid

• Check the certification on the listing, then check the register. Each listing links back to the City of Austin directory it was read from and names the date of the export. Certifications lapse and renew, and the register is the current record, not this page.
• Ask about the sector, not the capability list. Most of these firms bid public work and private work both, and the useful question is which they have actually delivered.
• Bonding and licensing come up early. They are quick to establish on a first call and they decide whether a firm can take the job at all.
• Several of these hold both certifications, which matters if your goal is participation across two categories rather than one.

What the record does not cover yet

Sixty-eight certified firms are listed, out of a register that holds over nine hundred in the metro. The ones here are the firms that publish a website and could be verified as trading. Firms with no website, and there are hundreds, are not listed and that is a limitation of how this was sourced.

If you hold an Austin MBE or WBE certification and you are not here, a free listing takes a few minutes.

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