History

• Founded in 1919 in Dallas, Texas by Lester H. Lacy.

• The company originally built homes and buildings, including projects:

  • Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas

  • parts of Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple

  • the Driskill Hotel in Austin

Expansion into civil construction

• In the 1930s, the business expanded into heavy civil construction.

• From there, Lacy became involved in major infrastructure work such as:

  • bridges

  • brick highways

  • concrete pavement

Notable historical projects included portions of:

• Dallas Central Expressway

• Dallas Love Field

• Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

• Dallas North Tollway

• Redbird Airport (now Dallas Executive Airport)

• Loop 12

• parts of Hobby Airport and the Katy Freeway in Houston

• work on several interstate corridors including I-10, I-20, I-30, I-40, I-25, I-35, I-45, and I-820

Innovation history

L.H. Lacy highlights a long history of construction-process innovation. It was among the first in Texas to use slip-form paving, and it also helped pioneer or adopt equipment/process innovations such as:

• the Hagan horizontal shaft central mixer

• the lime slurry valve

• the Gomaco 9500 placer/trimmer

• use of fly ash in portable plants

Today

The company remains family-owned and managed by the Lacy family and has evolved into a full-service civil contractor serving North Central Texas, with work spanning municipal, commercial, and residential development.