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Considered one of the top steel and construction organizations, the BZI® group of companies, headquartered in Kanarraville, Utah, operates through three primary organizations: Building Zone Industries, LLC, which is responsible for steel erection, and BZI Steel, LLC, which specializes in steel fabrication. InnovaTech®, LLC specializes in designing, engineering, and manufacturing innovative construction equipment and processes to enhance efficiency and safety on the job.

The company continues to receive numerous industry awards and accolades for its exceptional performance and contributions to its industries. The company has been the recipient of:

  • USA TODAY 2026 Top Workplaces Leadership Award to CEO James Barlow
  • USA TODAY 2026 #1 Top Workplaces for Frontline Workers
  • USA TODAY 2026 #7 Top Workplaces for companies 500-999
  • Seven Top Workplaces Excellence in Culture awards in 2026
  • Top Workplaces 2026 Construction Industry Award
  • BZI’s President Thomas Harker honored in 2026 Utah Business Forty Under 40
  • BZI named No. 6 in ENR’s List of Top 20 Steel Companies
  • The Salt Lake Tribune named BZI No.3 Utah Top Workplaces 2025 for Large Businesses
  • BZI®’s affiliate InnovaTech® — First place in the 2025 Utah Business Innovation Awards in the Industrial Manufacturing category
  • No. 1 Construction Top Workplaces
  • Inc. Best in Business 2024 for Construction: BZI Innovation Park
  • USA Today’s Top Workplaces (Second year – Ranked No. 11 in the nation for midsize companies in 2025)
  • Utah Business Fast 50 (No. 12 ranking)
  • Top Workplaces Construction Industry Award
  • Salt Lake City Tribune Top Workplaces for two years (No. 5 ranking in 2024)
  • One Utah Summit “Rural Rockstar” Award presented by Utah Governor Cox
  • Best Employer by Cedar City Chamber of Commerce
  • CEO of the Year by Cedar City Chamber of Commerce
  • CEO of the Year 2025 Award – Utah Business
  • Trade Partner in Safety Excellence (Layton Construction)

BZI is a proud member of and accredited by AISC, an organization that has recognized BZI with its top safety award, the “Erector Award of Honor,” multiple times. CEO James Barlow serves on the Forbes Business Council and Inc. Leadership Forum and is a recipient of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige Award. Jakob Harker, President of InnovaTech, is a proud member of the Fast Company Executive Board, an organization of select senior executives, founders, business owners, and industry experts who are defining the future of business.

BZI’s mission is to revolutionize the steel construction industry through innovation and team performance, while accelerating project delivery and setting new standards in safety and efficiency.

BZI is completing and executing major construction projects across the United States and is recognized as a leading provider of innovative construction solutions nationwide. Its reputation for excellent client and operational performance is attracting premier companies from around the world. These organizations are building with BZI as a trade partner, bringing new economic opportunities across the U.S. through BZI projects. Top customer industries include data centers, e-commerce retail, manufacturing facilities for batteries, aerospace, microchips, electric vehicles, and food and beverage.

Products:

A few proprietary and patented advanced approaches and equipment developed by BZI’s InnovaTech division, established in 2017, include:

  • Panel Table® – Transforms the assembling and transporting of joists, bridging, frames, and deck
  • MezzMaster® – Improves the traditional means of lifting roofs and mezzanines
  • WallMaster® – Brings more efficient, simpler, and safer wall system installations
  • SkyBrace® – Provides an innovative bracing solution that ensures structural stability
  • BeamChamp® – Allows for a more efficient and much safer way to rotate steel beams for welding and inspection applications

Services:

  • Steel Erection
  • Steel Fabrication
  • Wall Systems
  • Nautilus Core and Shell

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  • BZI®’s VP of Safety, Jesus Cadena, Recognized with 2026 Utah Business Executive Excellence Award

    BZI® commemorated another one of its executives being awarded by business and industry communities for their leadership excellence and contributions. BZI®’s VP of Safety, Jesus Cadena, accepted his 2026 Utah Business Executive Excellence Award along with other exceptional Utah executives at a celebration event sponsored by the magazine, earlier this week.
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  • BZI® Construction Innovation Day Highlights One-of-A-Kind Equipment and InnovaTech®, LLC’s Leadership in Construction and Steel Industry Innovations that Increase Efficiencies, Safety and Accelerate Project Delivery

    BZI® welcomed a large crowd of Cedar City, Utah community, business, government leaders and students at its recent annual BZI Construction Innovation Day. Attendees experienced firsthand the one-of-a-kind advancements in equipment and processes developed by BZI and InnovaTech®, a BZI Group Inc. organization specializing in designing, engineering and manufacturing game-changing tools and resources to enhance efficiency and safety on the job.
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  • BZI to Celebrate Its Multi-Year Sponsorship Partnership at the 40th Annual Larry H. Miller Utah Summer Games Opening Ceremonies, to be held on June 5, 2026 in Cedar City

    BZI® announced today, the company will celebrate its multi-year sponsorship partnership at the Larry H. Miller Utah Summer Games at the June 5, 2026 opening ceremonies, marking the events’ 40th year. The primary and signature sporting events will take place from June 5 to June 27 in Cedar City, Utah. Megan Lamb, BZI’s Community Contributions Program Manager, has a special connection to the Games in that she participated in the first annual event, as a flag holder in the opening ceremonies parade in 1986. Lamb will now be joining the sponsors parade this Friday at the opening ceremonies 40 years later.
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  • BZI® Highlights Its Industry-Best Approach to Safety Culture, Innovations, Training and Processes During National Safety Week

    BZI proactively ensures safe construction work sites and practices through its partnership with the BZI Academy™. The academy is one of the many reasons BZI continues to exceed industry standards in safety by providing hands-on and real-world application of foundational training to all its team members. An exclusive technical, safety, vocational and leadership training center, the academy provides training in OSHA (10) and (30) certifications, equipment operations, fall protection and industry-specific welding certifications. BZI Academy consistently logs over 30,000 student contact hours annually. As part of this expansive training curriculum, the academy also offers a Department of Labor-certified Apprenticeship Program, shaping relevant skills and advancing careers for those wanting to pursue construction as a vocation. All new BZI team members are paid for time spent attending the comprehensive training at the academy.
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  • BZI®’s Customer Growth and Market Expansion Open Many New Job Opportunities at One of the Nation’s Top Places to Work for Its Culture, Training, Safety and Outstanding Benefits

    BZI® announced today its customer growth and expansion has opened up many new job positions across the company’s U.S. markets. The announcement comes at a time when many analysts and economists are claiming that trade and construction professions are offering lucrative and positive professional opportunities, when other industries are harder for workers to break into and achieve a longstanding and stable career.
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  • BZI® Wins Seven 2026 Top Workplaces Awards for Culture Excellence and the Construction Industry Award, Recognizing Multiple Areas of Accomplishment

    BZI is the winner of seven 2026 Top Workplaces awards for Culture Excellence and the Construction Industry Award, recognizing the company for its outstanding performance in several areas of accomplishment.
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  • BZI® Announces Its New ExoClip™, ExoWall™ and EntroDeck™ Products Are Now Available for Architects and Engineers to Integrate Specs Into Early Stages of Building Design to Further Enhance Safety and Efficiency

    BZI®’s exclusive innovations in substructural seismic-mitigation clip and top-down erection, pre-fabrication processes of IMP wall and roof systems, bring important advancements for efficiency, safety and quality
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  • BZI®’s President Thomas Harker Honored in the 2026 Utah Business Forty Under 40

    Thomas Harker, President of BZI, a premier steel and construction company, presents his view on the organization's differentiated and innovative services, based on a strong foundation of fostering valued relationships and its unique approach to leadership.
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  • BZI® Announces Thomas Harker as President, New Executive Leadership Roles Across Its Companies, and Updated Branding

    Company advancements address the growing and evolving needs of its industries, customers and partners
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  • BZI® Celebrates 2025 as a Year of Outstanding Impact on Organizational, Revenue and Customer Growth, as well as Performance, Innovations, Industry Recognition, Culture, and Community Contributions

    Company's cumulative revenue since 2017 has now exceeded $2 billion, grows to more than 1,000 team members and expands into new customer segments, innovations, products and services BZI commemorates the year and shares performance and growth numbers with customers, partners, community and team members, at its annual Connect Conference, themed “Impact 2026” in St. George, Utah
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  • BZI Innovation Park Leads Panel on the Company’s Positive Impact on Economy and Local Communities in Southern Utah at the What’s Up Down South Event, January 15, 2026, Dixie Convention Center, St. George

    BZI Innovation Park's Drake Howell and VISCO’s Ryan Obray will be joined on a breakout panel with leading area government and business leaders, as well as the industry park customers, and the Utah Inland Port Authority. The group will share their perspectives, experiences and updates on how the industrial park and transportation hub are bringing new opportunities for multi-national, regional and local businesses through its differentiated products, services and rail and shipping networks.
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  • BZI® Named No. 6 in ENR’s List of Top 20 Steel Companies

    The company also ranked amongst ENR’s Top 600 Specialty Contractors List and received ENR’s Award of Merit for Manufacturing in ENR’s Southeast’s 2025 Best Project Awards. BZI was recognized for implementing innovative solutions, including its proprietary tool UniLink, which improved productivity and safety during the construction of an electric vehicle plant
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  • BZI® Presented Metrics That Demonstrate Its Pre-assembly, Panelization Methods and Tools Mitigate Hazards, Increase Efficiency, and Provide Additional Opportunities for Cost Savings at the 2025 Lean Construction Institute Congress

    BZI leaders and third-party construction project engineer shared the benefits of BZI’s application of lean construction tenets, and the company’s unique tools and methods, including insights from a large electric vehicle customer project
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  • BZI® Celebrates Construction Safety Week With Impressive TRIR and EMR Safety Numbers, AISC Safety Award and SteelTech Academy™ Training Results

    Company’s innovations in safety, culture and unique training programs are keeping team members safe, exceeding industry standards and bringing improved safety possibilities for all construction workers
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  • BZI® to Celebrate the Grand Opening of Nautilus 1, The First Building Within Affiliate BZI Innovation Park, LLC’s 820-Acre Development, and Its First Permanent Tenant, Iron Depot™, on October 3, from 11am-1pm

    BZI Innovation Park Project Executive, Drake Howell, to Speak at the October One Utah Summit About the Positive Ways BZI’s Innovation Park is Building Thriving Local and State-Wide Businesses and Communities
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  • BZI® Named #3 in the Utah Top Workplaces 2025 by The Salt Lake Tribune

    Out of the 154 companies, BZI ranked as a top-tier company for the large business category
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  • BZI® and InnovaTech® to Feature Construction Innovations BeamChamp® and SkyBrace® at FABTECH 2025, Booth #A5974, September 8-11, at Chicago’s McCormick Place

    BZI COO Thomas Harker to present how the company’s unique construction methods are driving scaled growth, advanced manufacturing, fabrication, and equipment innovations, while accelerating project delivery, and enhancing safety and efficiency
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  • SUU/BZI Youth Engineering Academy Grows More Than Six-Fold in Three Years, Significantly Increasing Opportunities and Positive Influence on K-12 STEM Students and Innovators of the Future

    Educational Program Represents BZI Community Contributions Program’s Focus on STEM, Health and Wellness and Families The Program Actively Breaks Down Barriers Related to Gender, Race, and Income, Empowering All Students to Recognize Their Potential for Pursuing Careers in Engineering and Other STEM Fields.
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  • BZI® Announces Its Ranking as #1 in the “Construction Top Workplaces 2025” Award for U.S. Companies with 500-999 Employees

    The Company is One of a Few Specialty Steel Erector Businesses Recognized Out of 137 Construction Organizations From Across the Nation
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  • BZI® Announces its Affiliate BZI Innovation Park LLC’s Industrial Park and Transportation Hub is Ready for Customers, Showcases Its First Tenants, and Celebrates Milestone of 600 Railcars Delivered by RailSync™

    Utah Inland Port Authority, local Utah businesses and government officials gathered on July 1, 2025 to applaud the 820-acre industrial park, its differentiated offerings, transportation services, as well as its positive impact on the region, local citizens and national sustainability goals
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  • BZI® Increases Hiring to Support More Construction Sites in Hesperia and Moreno Valley, and Extends Community Contributions in Its California Markets

    BZI will participate in the Monterey County job fair focused on young adults, to be held May 17, 2025 in Seaside, California
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  • BZI®’s Affiliate InnovaTech® Receives First Place in the 2025 Utah Business Innovation Awards in the Industrial Manufacturing Category

    One-of-a-kind WallMaster® 300, and many other revolutionary construction tools and processes developed by InnovaTech, a BZI group, continue to differentiate the company
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Latest News

BZI® Wins Seven 2026 Top Workplaces Awards for Culture Excellence and the Construction Industry Award, Recognizing Multiple Areas of Accomplishment

April 5, 2026

Spencer Douglas, BZI Chief Marketing Officer, presents the company’s approach to a positive and thriving...

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Sustaining Business Culture During Rapid Growth

March 20, 2026

By BZI CEO James Barlow for Forbes Business Council Growth is exhilarating, but it can...

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BZI® Announces Its New ExoClip™, ExoWall™ and EntroDeck™ Products Are Now Available for Architects and Engineers to Integrate Specs Into Early Stages of Building Design to Further Enhance Safety and Efficiency

March 20, 2026

BZI® announced today that three proprietary construction breakthroughs, ExoClip™, ExoWall™ and EntroDeck™, are now available for...

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BZI® Announces Thomas Harker as President, New Executive Leadership Roles Across Its Companies, and Updated Branding

February 19, 2026

BZI announced today that it has appointed Thomas Harker as President. As one of the...

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BZI® Celebrates 2025 as a Year of Outstanding Impact on Organizational, Revenue and Customer Growth, as well as Performance, Innovations, Industry Recognition, Culture, and Community Contributions

January 15, 2026

Company’s cumulative revenue since 2017 has now exceeded $2 billion, grows to more than 1,000...

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BZI® Named No. 6 in ENR’s List of Top 20 Steel Companies

January 15, 2026

The company also ranked amongst ENR’s Top 600 Specialty Contractors List and received ENR’s Award...

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