AZ Business magazine and BestCompaniesAZ present the Most Admired Companies program each year with the goal of recognizing organizations that excel in these six key areas: Customer opinion; diversity, equity, and inclusion; innovation; leadership excellence; social responsibility; and workplace culture. One of Arizona’s Most Admired Companies for 2021 is JE Dunn Construction.


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With hundreds of nominations representing the most innovative, impactful and successful companies in Arizona, being one of Most Admired Companies of 2021 shows that these companies truly represent the best in Arizona business. The Most Admired Companies for 2021 will be honored at an awards dinner Oct. 7, 2021, at Pointe Hilton Resort Tapatio Cliffs in Phoenix. Title sponsors for the Most Admired Companies awards are WaFd Bank and Taylor Morrison. For sponsorship information, email Amy.Lindsey@azbigmedia.com. For information about the event honoring the Most Admired Companies, email Lynette.Carrington@azbigmedia.com or click here.

Azbigmedia.com will be spotlighting one of Arizona’s Most Admired Companies each day leading up to the awards dinner.

JE Dunn Construction

Most Admired Company: 2016-2019, 2021

Top Arizona executive: Brad Schenck, senior vice president

What it does: Construction company.

Company profile: JE Dunn’s vision of providing an exceptional client experience is paramount in everything it does. JE Dunn strives to deliver services in a manner that contributes directly to the success of its clients’ businesses, making it an indispensable business partner. JE Dunn doesn’t want to be viewed as a contractor; its goal is to positively impact its clients’ overall business strategies. JE Dunn’s purpose is to enrich lives through its community service, development programs for employees, and most importantly through the people who use the building JE Dunn has the privilege of building.

Admirable trait: Dunn Dashboard, the JE Dunn-designed, award-winning technology, provides web-based collaboration on design documents, building information modeling, electronic bid submittals, and other project documentation. Documents can be accessed on job site kiosks, office computers, laptops, tablets and smart phones. Use of the paperless system on a large, complex science and technology project was recently featured in Fast Company, highlighting how the project team was able to save $10 million and reduce environmental impact.