Recognized at the 2026 ALMobile Users Conference in Denton, Texas
McCarthy Building Companies recorded more than seven million labor hours through ALMobile during 2025, a milestone that earned the company the 7 Million Labor Hours Award at the 2026 ALMobile Users Conference in Denton, Texas. The achievement places McCarthy among the platform’s highest-volume users and reflects the company’s sustained commitment to digital workforce management across its national portfolio of projects.
Founded in 1864, McCarthy is the oldest privately held national construction company in the United States. The firm employs more than 8,000 salaried employees and craft professionals across offices in over a dozen cities, and it is ranked the 15th largest domestic builder by Engineering News-Record. McCarthy is also 100% employee-owned, a structure that reinforces accountability across every level of the organization. With that scale of operations, tracking labor hours accurately and consistently is not a minor administrative task. It is foundational to how the company manages project delivery, controls costs, and supports its workforce.
Putting Seven Million Hours in Context
Seven million hours of tracked labor is roughly equivalent to 3,365 full-time employees working every business day for an entire year. For McCarthy, that volume spans complex construction environments, from healthcare facilities and research buildings to airports and water treatment plants, across multiple regions of the country. Every one of those hours was captured by field teams using ALMobile on jobsites, flowing in real time to project managers and back-office systems.
Austin Lane has been a core tool for us as our enterprise time tracking platform. It empowers us by helping us accurately account for project costs as well making sure we are paying people promptly and fairly for their work. It also helps alleviate a ton of risk in helping us make sure that we are compliant with all labor laws in every area of the country we work in. — Michael David – Business Systems Analyst
Built for the Jobsite
Construction is not an office environment. Field teams work in conditions where connectivity is unreliable, schedules shift daily, and the people entering data have more pressing concerns than navigating complicated software. ALMobile was designed around those realities. The platform runs as a progressive web app across any device and operating system, captures data with or without an internet connection, and integrates with major ERP systems, including Oracle, Viewpoint, Sage, CMiC, and others. Foremen and superintendents can enter and review time data in the field with minimal friction, and that data syncs directly to payroll and project management systems in the back office.
McCarthy’s seven-million-hour milestone is one data point within a much larger picture. In 2025 alone, ALMobile’s client base collectively captured over 72 million labor hours across more than 125,000 construction employees. That kind of adoption across the construction industry speaks to a broader shift: companies are moving away from paper timesheets and manual processes toward systems that give them real-time visibility into how labor is being deployed.
Introducing ALMobile Version 13
The conference also served as the launch event for ALMobile Version 13, the latest release of the platform. Version 13 features a refreshed interface that streamlines license management, user assignment, and status monitoring. The update also introduces API and Single Sign-On capabilities, giving field teams another reason to consolidate their workflows into a single tool. These improvements build on the platform’s core strength: keeping the experience simple for the people who use it every day, while giving managers and administrators the data depth they need to make informed decisions.
The 2026 Users Conference
The 2026 ALMobile Users Conference brought together customers, partners, and industry professionals in Denton, Texas, for two days of training sessions, roundtable discussions, and product demonstrations. The event ran alongside the Austin Lane IT Services ALIT Secured 2026 conference, giving attendees exposure to both field technology and broader IT strategy. McCarthy was one of several companies recognized during the event for their achievements on the platform.
What’s Next
As construction projects grow in scale and complexity, the demands on workforce management tools grow with them. McCarthy’s milestone is a strong signal that large, sophisticated builders see real value in the kind of visibility ALMobile provides. With Version 13 coming soon and continued investment in the platform’s capabilities, the ALMobile team looks forward to supporting McCarthy and its broader client base as they push toward what comes next.
To learn more about ALMobile or to see the platform in action, visit almobile.com
