Robert Moser.
Robert Moser
CEO at Clark Construction Group
Clark Construction Group is one of the most active construction companies in the D.C. region, and recently announced that it’s opening a new headquarters in McLean, Va.
Among Clark’s notable projects is the most notable of them all: Amazon’s HQ2 in Arlington. In March this year, Clark celebrated the topping-out of Metropolitan Park, the first phase of the development, along with representatives from Amazon, developer JGB Smith and Arlington public officials.
Clark is also working on a new pavilion at the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in D.C.’s Georgetown, and the redevelopment of the former Newseum building at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue into a research center for Johns Hopkins University.
In May, Clark leased a 128,000-square-foot space at the Silverline Center in McLean to use as a new headquarters, which will supplement its existing offices in the region. Clark has also doubled the size of its Baltimore office and plans to establish an office in Central Virginia as it already has existing projects in Richmond.
“Continuing to serve the region and harnessing the wealth of opportunities and talent that spans from Baltimore to Richmond requires a network of strategic locations,” Robert Moser said in a statement at the time of the announcement.
Clark, led by Moser, is active nationwide across a variety of building types. The company is working on LACMA (one of Los Angeles’ premiere art museums), a courthouse in Sacramento, the Summit Building at the Seattle Convention Center, and the expansion of the Atlanta Plane Train Tunnel.
The company is also focused on DEI initiatives and has recently committed to having at least 15 percent participation from minority business owners on every project.
For HQ2, Clark has used a variety of sustainable materials to achieve Amazon’s goal of reducing the project’s embodied carbon by 10 percent. For Metropolitan Park, that meant utilizing cement that had been treated with CarbonCure, which recaptures carbon, and at least one of Amazon’s buildings will be built with mass timber, a low-carbon alternative to cement.
