Operating internationally since the 1950s, it merged with Germany's Philipp Holzmann AG in 1979.

[1] One of Jones' early landmark projects was the twelve-story Independence Building, Charlotte's first "skyscraper" and the soon to be first office of J.A.

[2] In 1930, the company won a major contract to build a new military airbase in the Canal Zone in Panama.

[3] During World War II, the company built 212 cargo ships and tankers[4] and was a substantial builder of Liberty ships in support of the war effort.

[5] It also built Camp Shelby in Mississippi as well as K-25 and K-27, production plants for manufacturing Uranium-235 at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.