Limbach Holdings, Inc. (LMB) Business
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Item 1. Business
Limbach Holdings, Inc. (the “Company,” “we” or “our”), a Delaware corporation headquartered in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, is a building systems solutions firm that designs, delivers, and maintains mechanical (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), electrical, plumbing, and controls (“MEPC”) systems. The Company partners with building owners and operators of mission-critical facilities across healthcare, industrial and manufacturing, data centers, life sciences, higher education, and cultural and entertainment markets. With approximately 1,500 team members across 21 offices throughout the Eastern and Midwestern regions of the United States, the Company strives to be an indispensable partner by combining its national capabilities with strong local execution and talent to deliver proactive, safe, and reliable solutions for complex facilities. Operating on a connected platform, the Company integrates engineering expertise with field execution to provide customized MEPC infrastructure solutions that address both operational and capital project needs, optimizing performance, enhancing reliability, and ensuring long-term safety.
2025 Highlights
In 2025, the Company:
•Produced record annual revenue of $646.8 million and a record annual gross profit of $169.3 million.
•Increased its revenue generated from the ODR segment (as defined below) by 40.6% (versus 2024), achieving its previously announced 2025 ODR segment revenue target of 70% - 80% of total consolidated revenue at 75.1%.
•Increased diluted earnings per share by 25.7% (versus 2024) to $3.23.
•Generated $45.7 million of net cash provided by operating activities.
•Successfully completed the acquisition of Pioneer Power, LLC (“Pioneer Power”) (as described in more detail below).
Segments
The Company operates in two segments; (i) Owner Direct Relationships (“ODR”), in which the Company performs owner direct projects and/or provides maintenance or service primarily on MEPC systems, and specialty contracting projects to existing buildings direct to, or assigned by, building owners or operators, and (ii) General Contractor Relationships (“GCR”), in which the Company generally manages new construction or renovation projects that involve primarily MEPC systems awarded to the Company by general contractors or construction managers. The Company's work is primarily performed under fixed-price, modified fixed-price, and time and materials contracts over periods of typically less than two years.
ODR Segment. The Company’s key business initiative for its ODR segment is to position itself as a value-added, indispensable partner to building owners in mission-critical markets, providing full life cycle capabilities from concept design and engineering through system commissioning and around-the-clock service and maintenance primarily to their existing buildings. The Company remains focused on the scalability of its organic business through partnering directly with building owners. The Company believes that its building owner relationships provide a distribution channel through which it can continue to deliver an expanded offering of value-added solutions direct to building owners that further reinforces its value proposition and differentiated capabilities. In addition, by establishing successful, long-term partnerships with building owners, the Company has positioned itself to provide reoccurring small project work, time and materials work and maintenance services, which it believes improves revenue predictability and could increase economic resilience. The Company provides its ODR solutions through the following project delivery methodologies:
•Integrated Facility Planning. The Company provides professional and consultative services to building owners, helping them proactively plan future investments, anticipate opportunities, and align facility needs with long-term business goals. These services include engineer-led facility assessments, identification and support of capital planning needs for new and existing facilities through the analysis of existing facility data, as well as program management support.
•Service & Maintenance. The Company provides comprehensive inspection, troubleshooting, repair, and services to ensure the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of building systems. Ongoing maintenance and operations are essential for building functionality, safety, and energy efficiency. The Company’s skilled technicians specialize in servicing all critical building systems, addressing root causes of issues, and delivering tailored maintenance solutions through “evergreen” contracts. The Company’s predictive maintenance solutions include:
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•24/7 emergency service and repairs;
•on-site asset valuation;
•staff augmentation;
•proactive preventative maintenance;
•building automation consultation;
•hydro-jetting; and
•facility team training.
•Replacements & Retrofit. The Company provides system and/or facility assessments to determine the best solution for the building owner’s assets. Based on the assessments performed, the Company tailors MEPC systems upgrades for its customers’ system and/or facility. Examples of MEPC systems equipment upgrades and products include providing installed equipment solutions, equipment retrofitting/restoration, off-site equipment skids, temporary equipment fixes and comprehensive system replacements.
•Rental Equipment. The Company provides turnkey rental equipment solutions to support building owners during planned replacements, emergency repairs, and construction outages. These services go beyond simply supplying temporary equipment, they include system design, ensuring existing system compatibility, managing all necessary connections, as well as overseeing installation, maintenance, and removal.
•MEPC Infrastructure Upgrades. The Company provides comprehensive MEPC infrastructure solutions, leveraging over a century of building systems construction experience to support customers’ facility planning, design, and construction needs. The Company partners with customers to develop tailored long-term solutions, serving as a single-source prime contractor to execute projects that align with customer goals and performance expectations.
•Energy Efficiency & Decarbonization. The Company provides customized solutions to help building owners achieve energy and carbon reduction goals, secure funding, reduce operating costs, and maintain energy-efficient facilities. By enhancing visibility into facility and asset performance, the Company can deliver significant energy savings in a cost-effective manner. Additionally, through consulting and energy engineer-led assessments, it develops tailored solutions and long-term roadmaps focused on reducing carbon emissions while optimizing energy efficiency and system performance. The Company’s tailored approach includes sourcing funding through energy rebates and incentives, energy engineer-led facility assessments and benchmarking, energy-efficient equipment upgrades, and optimizing and maintaining building systems.
Due to the Company’s ongoing relationships with certain building owners, the Company believes it is well positioned with those owners when they initiate capital infrastructure projects. As a result, the ongoing relationship with the customer, along with the maintenance, time and materials, building automation upgrades, critical system repair work, and data driven insights often lead, drive and support the revenue associated with owner direct projects.
ODR revenue for the year ended December 31, 2025 increased by $140.2 million, or 40.6%, to $485.7 million, compared to $345.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. This increase was driven by the Company’s continued focus on accelerating growth within its ODR business, as well as incremental revenue contributions from the Pioneer Power, Consolidated Mechanical, LLC (“Consolidated Mechanical”) and Kent Island Mechanical, LLC (“Kent Island”) acquisitions. These acquisitions contributed approximately $81.4 million of the ODR revenue increase during 2025. The remaining increase of $58.8 million reflects organic growth driven by higher project volume within the Company’s ODR segment.
ODR gross profit for the year ended December 31, 2025 increased $22.1 million, or 20.5%, primarily due to an increase in revenue, despite lower segment gross margins of 26.7% versus 31.2% year-over-year. The decrease in ODR gross margin was primarily attributable to the impact of certain acquisitions, which operate at lower gross margin profiles relative to the Company’s organic ODR operations, as well as ODR-related project write-ups recognized in 2024 that did not recur in the current year. Management continues to integrate these acquired operations into the Company’s broader operating model with the objective of improving profitability over time.
GCR Segment. The Company provides its GCR services through the following project delivery methodologies:
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• Plan & Spec Bidding. Plan & Spec bidding is a competitive bid process among multiple contractors bidding on nearly or fully complete design documents based on a lump sum price for delivery of the project. The Company believes price is the predominant selection criteria in this process.
• Design/Build or Design/Assist. Design/Build or Design/Assist is a process in which a specialty contractor is selected among competing contractors using best value methodology. In best value, the Company believes the selection is made primarily upon qualifications and project approach, and secondarily upon select cost factors. Cost factors are usually limited to a fixed fee, expense estimate and an estimate of the cost of work. With Design/Assist, the specialty contractor is typically contracted early in the design process to provide design and preconstruction input as needed to assist the customer in maintaining the established budget and completing design and drawings. This delivery option includes lump-sum or guaranteed maximum price on a fixed fee basis.
GCR revenue for the year ended December 31, 2025 decreased by $12.2 million, or 7.0%, to $161.1 million, compared to $173.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. The decrease in year-over-year GCR revenue was primarily attributable to the Company’s continued execution of its strategic mix-shift toward ODR work, which resulted in lower GCR organic revenue of $39.9 million. This decline was partially offset by an incremental increase in GCR acquisition-related revenue of approximately $27.7 million from the Pioneer Power, Consolidated Mechanical and Kent Island acquisitions during 2025.
GCR gross profit increased $2.9 million, or 8.0%, driven by higher segment gross margins of 24.5% compared to 21.1% year-over-year, despite lower GCR segment revenue. The increase in GCR gross margin reflects the Company’s continued selectivity in pursuing GCR projects.
For additional financial information about the Company’s operating segments, see Note 12 – Operating Segments in the accompanying notes to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
Strategy
The Company focuses on creating value for building owners by developing long-term relationships and becoming an indispensable partner to building owners with mission-critical systems.
The Company’s strategy sits on the foundation of having great people who deliver a safe, quality-driven customer solution. We seek to attract and retain quality team members by providing them with an enhanced career path that offers a stable income, attractive benefits packages and excellent advancement opportunities. The Company invests in its team members through safety and wellness programs, robust internal communication, career development and training programs, recognition programs and succession planning initiatives. The company seeks to maintain a diversified customer and geographic base. The Company has a diversified revenue mix across end-use sectors that it believes reduces its exposure to negative developments in any given sector. The Company also has significant geographical diversification across regions that are primarily located in the Eastern and Midwestern regions of the United States, again reducing its exposure to negative developments in any single given region. The Company’s core market sectors consist of the following customer base with mission-critical systems:
•Healthcare, including research, acute care and inpatient hospitals for regional and national hospital groups;
•Industrial and manufacturing, including automotive, energy and general manufacturing plants;
•Data centers, including facilities composed of networked computers, storage systems and computing infrastructure that organizations use to assemble, process, store and disseminate large amounts of data;
•Life sciences, including organizations and companies whose work is centered around research and development focused on living organisms and biological systems;
•Higher education, including both public and private colleges, universities and research centers; and
•Cultural and entertainment, including entertainment facilities (including casinos) and amusement rides and parks.
The Company also partners with building owners across other market sectors and believes that it is imperative that the partnerships formed between the Company and its building owners are aligned on safety, quality and performance expectations.
The Company employs a three-pillar approach to scale its business: (i) improve profitability and drive quality organic revenue growth; (ii) expand margins through enhanced and expanded customer solutions; and (iii) scale through acquisitions. To accomplish these objectives, the Company currently is executing the following initiatives:
Pillar I
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Organic ODR Growth. In focusing on improved profitability and sustainable, quality growth, the Company has dedicated its resources toward the organic growth of its ODR segment, as the scope of services provided within this segment typically yields higher margins compared to its GCR segment. For fiscal year 2025, the Company further expanded its growth within the ODR segment where it generated 75.1% of its total consolidated revenue, achieving its 2025 ODR segment revenue target of 70% - 80%. Going forward, the Company believes its disciplined, owner-focused operating model, supported by a full life cycle of engineered solutions and craft expertise, positions it as a long-term partner to building owners with mission-critical systems.
Improved GCR Segment Margins. In the Company’s GCR segment, the Company has been able to improve GCR segment margins by focusing on improving project execution and profitability by pursuing opportunities that are smaller in size and shorter in duration and where it can leverage its captive design and engineering services. The Company believes that it is appropriate to reduce risk and exposure to large, complex, non-owner direct projects where such projects have historically presented risks that can be difficult to mitigate and it does not align with the Company’s risk-adjusted return expectations. Going forward, the Company believes it has reached a level in which the GCR segment stabilizes as a result of its disciplined focus on smaller, shorter-duration projects that are expected to contribute more consistent gross margins.
National Customer Solutions. The Company continues to advance its national customer strategy through a dedicated professional services team that provides owner advisory, construction program management and related support services for customers with complex, mission-critical building systems and infrastructure needs. These services include capital planning to assist customers in planning, prioritizing and executing both the design and construction of capital initiatives and infrastructure projects, while enabling coordinated delivery, standardized workflows and consistent execution across the Company’s operating footprint. The National Customer Solutions team is focused on enhancing alignment between local and national teams, allowing the Company to deliver a more integrated and consistent customer experience across geographies. Through this approach, the Company seeks to deepen customer relationships and increase the value delivered to its customers. The Company expects to continue driving revenue and margin expansion through its national healthcare customer relationships, while further expanding dedicated national teams to grow its presence in its data center and industrial and manufacturing market verticals.
Sales Enablement. To support organic revenue growth, the Company continues to invest in sales enablement initiatives. These efforts include the continued development of centralized functions, tools and processes intended to support sellers across operating locations, enhance coordination between local and national sales efforts, and improve visibility into customer opportunities and pipeline activity. By equipping sales teams with shared resources, training and standardized workflows, the Company seeks to drive more disciplined opportunity management, support cross-selling of services and solutions, and enable a more seamless customer experience across its geographic footprint. Management believes these sales enablement initiatives strengthen execution, enhance productivity and support scalable, margin-accretive growth over the long term as the business continues to expand.
Pillar II
Margin Expansion Through Evolved Solutions. The Company continues to focus on expanding its margins by enhancing and expanding its solutions to building owners. This initiative reflects the Company’s commitment to driving sustainable growth, increasing operational efficiency and delivering greater value to its stakeholders. This evolution is intended to align more closely with current market demands, emerging customer preferences and operational efficiencies, which together contribute to margin expansion. The Company aims to differentiate itself from its competitors by being a single-source provider for building owners, capable of providing a full life cycle of engineered solutions and craft expertise. By meeting diverse customer needs under one roof, the Company deepens customer loyalty. The Company believes that building owners value the convenience and reliability of a single point of contact, which fosters long-term partnerships, reoccurring business and may open doors to larger capital projects and being able to capture a greater share of the overall value chain. The Company continues to expand its owner-direct offerings which include integrated facility planning, service and maintenance, equipment replacement and retrofits, rental equipment, MEPC infrastructure upgrades, and energy efficiency and decarbonization analysis and projects. These capabilities enable the Company to leverage its professional services platform to support multi-location regional and national customers. Additionally, the Company continues to evaluate opportunities to broaden and enhance its customer solutions to address evolving customer needs.
Pillar III
Growth Through Acquisitions. As the Company’s business generates increasing cash flow and earnings, management believes it is well-positioned to pursue targeted acquisitions as a strategic capital investment. The Company continues to build the internal capabilities, processes and leadership capacity necessary to evaluate, execute and integrate acquisitions on a disciplined and repeatable basis, while seeking to leverage existing systems, national and geographic presence and operational investments to their maximum potential over time. The Company remains focused on disciplined capital deployment and cultural alignment to
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ensure acquisitions contribute to long-term value creation. See Note 3 – Acquisitions in the accompanying notes to the Company’s consolidated financial statements for further information on the Company’s most recent acquisition activity.
Acquisitions
The Pioneer Power Transaction. On July 1, 2025 (the “Pioneer Power Effective Date”), Limbach Facility Services LLC (“LFS”), a Delaware limited liability company and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and the former owners of Pioneer Power (the “Pioneer Power Seller”) entered into a Purchase Agreement (the “Pioneer Power Purchase Agreement”) pursuant to which LFS purchased all of the outstanding equity interests in Pioneer Power from the Pioneer Power Seller (the “Pioneer Power Transaction”). Prior to the acquisition, Pioneer Power was 100% owned through an employee stock ownership plan. The Pioneer Power Transaction closed on the Pioneer Power Effective Date. As a result of the Pioneer Power Transaction, Pioneer Power became a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of the Company. Pioneer Power is a provider of industrial and institutional mechanical solutions serving healthcare, food, power/utility, oil refining and other select markets in the greater Twin Cities region of Minnesota and upper Midwest region. The acquisition further expands the Company’s footprint in the core Midwest and extends its reach into new geographic markets in the upper Midwest regions.
See Note 3 – Acquisitions in the accompanying notes to the Company’s consolidated financial statements for further information on the Pioneer Power Transaction.
Customers
The Company’s customer base primarily consists of building owners and their third-party representatives, as well as general contractors and construction managers. A key element of the Company’s strategy is to continue growing its direct relationships with building owners. The Company believes its relationships with building owners provide an effective channel to deliver an expanded suite of value-added services directly to building owners, reinforcing its value proposition and differentiated capabilities. The Company’s team members combine engineering expertise with field installation capabilities to provide custom solutions that leverage the Company’s full life cycle service platform, enabling it to address both customers’ ongoing operational needs and capital project requirements. This positions the Company to provide additional products and services over time.
The Company maintains hundreds of building owner relationships through contracts for program management, maintenance and system repairs. For the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, no customer in the ODR segment accounted for more than 10% of the Company’s consolidated revenue.
The Company believes it has strong relationships with many national commercial general contractors and construction managers. As part of its risk management practices, the Company is selective in choosing to work with general contractors and construction managers that align with the Company’s operating standards, have a history of timely payment, maintain experienced and available project management resources, and value the Company’s services and reputation. The Company’s branches also maintain relationships with local and regional general contractors and construction managers that meet these criteria. For the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, no customer in the GCR segment accounted for more than 10% of the Company’s consolidated revenue.
ODR and GCR Backlog
The Company’s revenue is primarily derived from construction-type and services contracts to deliver MEPC systems services to its customers. Such work is primarily performed under fixed-price, modified fixed-price, and time and materials contracts over periods of typically less than two years. Construction-type contract revenue is primarily derived from fixed-price and modified fixed-price contracts. With respect to service contracts, the Company’s service arrangements generally include (i) fixed-price service contracts, typically for maintenance, repair and retrofit work over a period, commonly one year, and (ii) time and materials or similar service work performed on an as-needed basis.
The Company refers to its estimated revenue on uncompleted contracts, including the amount of revenue on contracts for which work has not begun, less the revenue it had recognized under such contracts, as “backlog.” Backlog includes unexercised contract options. The Company’s backlog includes projects that have a written award, a letter of intent, a notice to proceed or an agreed-upon work order to perform work on mutually accepted terms and conditions. Additionally, the difference between the Company’s backlog and remaining performance obligations is due to the portion of unexercised contract options that are excluded, under certain contract types, from the Company’s remaining performance obligations as these contracts can be canceled for convenience at any time by the Company or the customer without considerable cost incurred by the customer. In addition to backlog, the Company has a substantial amount of contracts with short lead times that book-and-bill within the same reporting period and are not included in backlog. Additional information related to the Company’s remaining performance obligations is provided in Note 4 — Revenue from Contracts with Customers in the accompanying notes to its consolidated
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financial statements. See also Item 1A. “Risk Factors — Our contract backlog is subject to adjustments, delays and cancellations and could be an uncertain indicator of our future earnings.”
The Company’s ODR backlog was $255.8 million and $225.3 million as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. These amounts reflect unrecognized revenue expected to be recognized over the remaining terms of the Company’s construction-type and service contracts. Based on historical trends, the Company estimates that 84% of its ODR backlog as of December 31, 2025 will be recognized as revenue during 2026. The Company believes its ODR backlog increased due to its continued focus on the accelerated growth of its ODR business.
The Company’s GCR backlog was $141.8 million and $140.0 million as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Projects are brought into backlog once the Company has been provided a written confirmation of award and the contract value has been established. At any point in time, the Company has a substantial volume of projects that are specifically identified and advanced in negotiations and/or documentation, however those projects are not booked as backlog until the Company has received written confirmation from the owner or the general contractor/construction manager of their intention to award the Company the contract and they have directed the Company to begin engineering, designing, incurring construction labor costs or procuring needed equipment and material. The Company’s GCR projects tend to be built over a 12- to 24-month schedule depending upon scope and complexity. Most major projects have a preconstruction planning phase which may require months of planning before actual construction commences. The Company is occasionally employed to deliver a “fast-track” project, where construction commences as the preconstruction planning work continues. As work on the Company’s projects progress, it increases or decreases backlog to take into account its estimate of the effects of changes in estimated quantities, changes in conditions, change orders and other variations from initially anticipated contract revenue, and the percentage of completion of the Company’s work on the projects. Based on historical trends, the Company currently estimates that 77% of its GCR backlog as of December 31, 2025 will be recognized as revenue during 2026.
Competition
The MEPC systems services industry is highly competitive and fragmented. The Company competes with a variety of participants, including smaller regional contractors, specialized subcontractors, and large national and multinational companies with broader services. The geographic markets in which the Company operates include numerous firms that provide similar services.
The Company competes based on a number of factors, including price and cost efficiency; reputation, service quality and reliability; technical expertise and ability to execute complex projects; safety performance; geographic reach and scale; knowledge of local markets and conditions; financial strength and access to capital; surety bonding capacity; availability and experience of craft labor; responsiveness and customer service capabilities; and customer relationships. Certain competitors may have greater financial resources or a stronger presence in specific local markets. The Company believes its breadth of solutions, emphasis on safety and quality, and focus on customer needs support its ability to compete effectively.
The industry is also influenced by evolving customer demand and technology, including energy efficiency and decarbonization initiatives, increased retrofit and modernization activity, advances in building automation and controls, and broader adoption of digital and automated tools. The Company’s ability to anticipate and respond to these developments is important to maintaining its competitive position.
Materials and Equipment
The Company’s operations rely on a wide range of materials and equipment necessary to provide mechanical contracting services. The Company procures materials and equipment from a network of suppliers and manufacturers and seeks to maintain relationships with key vendors to support quality and timely delivery. While the Company sources the majority of its materials domestically, certain components are sourced internationally and may be subject to import regulations, tariffs and other trade restrictions.
The cost and availability of materials and equipment can fluctuate based on market conditions, supply chain constraints, labor and transportation dynamics, and changes in commodity pricing. The Company monitors these factors and may take steps to mitigate the impact of cost increases and supply disruptions, including project planning and scheduling adjustments, sourcing alternatives where practicable, and implementing pricing adjustments or change orders to the extent permitted under customer contracts. However, the Company may not be able to fully mitigate the impact of these factors on any particular project. The Company also considers applicable environmental and regulatory requirements in its sourcing and, in certain circumstances, incorporates sustainable or energy-efficient materials to align with customer preferences and evolving industry standards. See Item 1A. “Risk Factors—Increases in the cost or reduced availability of materials, equipment, commodities, or energy due to inflation, tariffs, trade policies, or geopolitical events could adversely affect our profitability and operating results” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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During 2025 and so far in 2026, the United States government announced and continues to announce tariffs and changes in tariffs on certain imports, including steel and aluminum. Increased costs for imported products may also contribute to market-based price increases from domestic suppliers. Existing tariffs, and any additional tariffs or trade restrictions that may be implemented by the United States or other countries, could result in higher costs, shifts in competitive positions, and reduced availability of certain materials and components. The Company’s ODR segment focus may, in certain circumstances, allow for increased costs to be passed through to customers due to shorter sales cycles; however, the Company may not be able to pass through all price increases or secure adequate alternative sources on a timely basis. The Company cannot predict future developments related to tariffs or trade restrictions, and the extent to which these measures could affect the Company’s results of operations remains uncertain.
Human Capital
To ensure that the Company is well positioned to provide innovative systems solutions and reliable services in a safe, efficient and responsible manner, the Company seeks to employ and retain a team of highly dedicated and accomplished people who genuinely care about the success of the Company. Creating an engaging workplace environment that provides for competitive pay and benefits, attractive career development opportunities, and a collaborative, respectful culture further enables the Company to achieve continued success.
Team members. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had approximately 1,500 team members, including approximately 600 full-time salaried team members who support its customers directly and indirectly, such as project managers, account managers, engineers and superintendents, and approximately 900 technician and craft team members, some of whom are represented by various labor unions. The Company believes it has a good relationship with its team members and has developed several strong partnerships with local unions to have access to an experienced, talented technician and craft workforce.
Core Values and Core Purpose. From the technicians in the field to the management team, the Company focuses on caring for its people. The Company prides itself on creating great opportunities for people. The Company has implemented internal development programs, which allow it to attract, develop and retain talent and emphasize the importance of promoting from within. The Company believes its core values reflect who it is. The Company cares about its people and believes its approach provides a competitive advantage. Since 2021, the Company has reduced its salaried attrition rate by 37% through the effective implementation of its human capital strategies.
The Company’s culture is driven by its core values:
•We CARE: Is more than just a phrase, it is a commitment to enhancing the lives of our team members both personally and professionally. From our award-winning training programs that develop our team members’ career and skill set to our Hearts & Minds safety culture ensuring our team members return home injury-free every day, we are here to support our team members’ journey. Our mission is simple but impactful: to optimize existing buildings, leaving the environment and our world better than we found it. And ‘We care’ goes beyond the office walls.
•We Act with INTEGRITY: Our business and culture are driven by doing the right thing for our team members and customers. We pride ourselves on delivering on our commitments.
•We Are INNOVATIVE: We are a collaborative team with diverse technical expertise that equips us to tackle our customers’ toughest challenges. Our culture supports and encourages our team members to speak up with their ideas, track future trends, and breathe life into new concepts, all aimed at improving our company and making our customers’ lives easier. By creating an environment of continuous learning, we empower our team with the proper training and competencies to deliver innovative solutions tailored to address our customers’ evolving needs.
•We Are ACCOUNTABLE: We operate with drive and discipline, holding ourselves responsible for delivering results that matter. We take ownership, move with urgency, and focus on practical solutions that exceed expectations and create value for everyone we serve.
The Company believes its team members are essential to its continued success and seeks to provide every team member with the foundation and environment needed to achieve the team members’ goals. This objective begins with the Company's commitment to inclusion. We CARE, one of the Company’s core values, is the foundation of its efforts to create a fair and inclusive organization. Building a culture where all of its team members feel a sense of belonging is important to the Company.
In addition, the Company screens leadership hires and measures team member performance against these core values, and regularly measures team member engagement against these values through the Company’s annual team member engagement survey. The Company’s “We Care” survey, which has been issued for more than twenty years, provides leadership with insights, including constructive ideas on how to improve the overall business for those who work for it. In 2024 and 2025, the
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Company was recognized as one of America’s “Most Loved Workplaces,” published by Newsweek Magazine and the Wall Street Journal and certified by the Best Practice Institute. Additionally, the Company was recognized as one of “America’s Greatest Companies” by Newsweek in 2025. Also, for the second year in a row in 2025, the Company was recognized as one of Forbes’ “Most Successful Small Companies.”
Training and Team Member Development. Investment in continuous learning is essential to providing industry-leading expertise and service to the Company’s customers, continuous improvement across its organization, and meaningful career development opportunities for its people. From in-person to online courses, formalized and other specialized training, the Company’s team members benefit from opportunities to strengthen their leadership and management competencies, improve communication and interpersonal skills, and advance their technical proficiency. The Company’s team members have access to resources that include a robust learning management system that provides company-wide access for team members to a number of online learning modules and support tools. As a result of its efforts, the Company was recognized as one of the top training organizations in the world earning a Training APEX Award from Training magazine for its third consecutive year (in 2023, 2024 and 2025). Additionally, the Company was recognized in 2024 and 2025 as a winner of the Association of Talent Development’s BEST award, which honors organizations that demonstrate enterprise-wide success as a result of employee talent development. The Company has invested in additional training to support those team members directly working in customer-facing roles across the Company, such as account management training, as it aims to grow its ODR business.
Culture of Belonging. The Company is committed to creating and supporting a fair and inclusive environment for its team members, We Care culture and industry as a whole. The Company actively seeks to foster an environment where every team member’s voice is heard and every team member can reach their full potential. The Company practices its commitment through its core values, selection, development and training, which extends to its senior leadership and Board of Directors. The Company understands that inclusivity and culture of belonging is truly a competitive advantage that helps drive growth and innovation.
Embrace Forum. The Company formed the Embrace Forum to continue to evolve its commitment to a culture of belonging. This forum is composed of team members and leaders across the company who have made it their mission to maximize the potential of the Company’s team members by creating great opportunities through a fair and inclusive environment. The Embrace Forum focuses on creating a culture of belonging, community and supporting employee resource groups (“ERGs”).
The Company offers all of its team members the opportunity to join ERGs. These groups foster professional development, social connectivity, and celebrate inclusivity throughout the Company. Each year, new ERGs are evaluated for consideration. Currently, there are five active ERGs at the Company:
•Women in Construction and Service (“WICS”). The Company is committed to promoting and supporting women within its organization throughout their career, including to take on leadership roles, and helping encourage other women to join its industry as a whole. To support this initiative, the Company created the WICS ERG with a vision to create a culturally agile community that respects and empowers women within the Company and industry.
•Unidos. Unidos is an ERG that was created to empower and amplify the Hispanic culture within the Company. The mission of this ERG is to create a supportive environment for Hispanic team members and their allies and provide a more inclusive environment where everyone feels safe, respected and valued.
•Hearts & Hands. Hearts & Hands is an ERG with the core purpose of providing opportunities and encouraging team members to make a difference by giving back to communities in which the Company has an operating footprint.
•Veterans. The Veterans ERG aims to offer resources, foster camaraderie, and promote understanding among Company team members who have served in the military and those who are committed to supporting them.
•Ashe Collective. The Ashe Collective is an ERG that celebrates the culture and contributions of Black and African American team members, while promoting overall professional development and community engagement within the Company.
Benefits & Wellness. The Company focuses on the most crucial component for its success; its team members. The Company appreciates the fact that it owes its 125 year existence to team members who work hard to help the Company prosper.
As such, the Company has committed itself to the health, safety and well-being of its team members and their families. One of the ways the Company shows its commitment is through offering competitive team member compensation and benefits packages, specifically designed to meet the unique needs of each individual in its organization, which include:
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•Health and Welfare Plans. All full-time team members who do not participate in union plans are offered a range of choices among medical, dental and vision plans, life, accident, dependent and disability insurance, and pre-tax health spending accounts that include employer contributions.
•Retirement Savings. The Company helps provide its team members with financial security by offering a 401(k) Savings Plan, which includes company matching contributions, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
•Employee Assistance Programs. Through the Employee Assistance Program, the Company offers its team members, and their dependents or household members, access to services and counseling on a variety of personal, professional, legal, and financial matters, at no cost.
•Work/Life Programs. Consists of various activities intended to inspire the Company’s team members towards healthy living through personal accountability.
Safety Culture. Safety is integral to the Company’s unique culture and core values. The Company cares about its team members and their families, and it holds each other accountable for working safely. The Company’s safety culture is based on its “Hearts and Minds Commitment to Safety” program, established in 2013 by its senior staff and field professionals via its Hearts and Minds Forum. The Company’s Hearts and Minds Forum asks its team members to take direct responsibility for eliminating and preventing all incidents and injuries at home and in the workplace, which is done by:
•Hiring the Right People. Hiring qualified team members who share its core values.
•Knowing the Details. Thorough planning and having acute awareness of present surroundings, which aids in executing work safely.
•Engaging at All Levels. Setting a great example of completing all tasks safely, at work and at home, by everyone from the management team to craft professionals.
•Mentoring and Coaching. Acting as a mentor and coach to show team members how to practice good safety behavior.
Seasonality, Cyclicality and Quarterly Trends
Severe weather can impact the Company’s operations. In the northern climates where it operates, and to a lesser extent the southern climates as well, severe winters can slow the Company’s productivity on projects, which shifts revenue and gross profit recognition to a later period. The Company’s maintenance operations may also be impacted by mild or severe weather. Mild weather tends to reduce demand for its maintenance services, whereas severe weather may increase the demand for its maintenance and time and materials services. The Company’s operations also experience cyclicality, as the Company tends to see customer budgets being allocated in the first quarter of the year and an increased level of maintenance and capital project execution during the third and fourth calendar quarters of each year.
Government and Environmental Regulations
The Company is subject to numerous federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the environment, including those governing discharges to air, water and land; the handling, storage and disposal of solid and hazardous waste; underground storage tanks; and the investigation and remediation of properties affected by hazardous substances. Environmental requirements continue to evolve, including those relating to climate, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions and refrigerants, as well as building codes and related standards, which may increase compliance obligations and costs and could affect customer demand, project specifications and operating practices. The Company is also subject to other regulatory requirements applicable to its operations, including those relating to workplace safety, wage and hour and other labor matters (including the Occupational Safety and Health Act and comparable state laws), immigration compliance, vehicle and equipment operations and other aspects of its business. In addition, a relatively limited number of the Company’s contracts are entered into with public authorities, and such contracts often impose additional requirements, including those relating to labor standards and subcontracting with designated classes of disadvantaged businesses. A significant portion of the Company’s labor is provided under collective bargaining agreements, and the Company is subject to federal and state laws and regulations related to unionized labor and collective bargaining (including the National Labor Relations Act).
The Company monitors its compliance with these laws, regulations and contractual requirements. Although compliance with existing requirements has not materially adversely affected the Company’s operations in the past and the Company is not aware of any proposed requirements that it expects will have a material impact on its operations, laws and regulations may change and future compliance costs or operational impacts could be material. The Company typically seeks to recover compliance-related costs through contract pricing, estimates or change orders; however, recovery may be limited by contract terms (including fixed-price arrangements), competitive dynamics and customer negotiations. In addition, certain environmental laws impose
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substantial penalties for noncompliance. Other laws, including the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) and comparable state laws, may impose strict, retroactive, joint and several liability on current and former owners and operators, as well as parties that generated, transported or arranged for the disposal of hazardous substances at a site.
Climate Change and Sustainability
The Company recognizes its environmental and societal responsibilities and is committed to sustainability and to improving its environmental footprint as well as operating its business in a manner that seeks to protect the health and safety of the Company’s team members and customers, as well as the public. The Company’s focus on environmental stewardship and improving productivity drives not only its efforts to become more energy efficient but also improvements in the Company’s customers’ impact on the climate. Replacing an aging building’s existing systems with modern, energy-efficient systems significantly reduces a building’s energy consumption and carbon footprint while improving cost, air quality and overall system effectiveness.
The Company is subject to the requirements of numerous federal, state and local laws, regulations and rules that promote the protection of the environment. While capital expenditures or operating costs for environmental compliance cannot be predicted with certainty, the Company does not currently anticipate that they will have a material effect on its capital expenditures or competitive position in the short term.
Available Information
The Company’s internet address is https://www.limbachinc.com. The Company makes available, free of charge, on its website the copies of the Company’s Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports as soon as reasonably practicable after the Company electronically files such material with, or furnishes it to, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
The content of the Company’s website is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K or in any other report or document it files with the SEC, and any references to the Company’s website is intended to be inactive textual references only.