The company crews perform about 600,000 man-hours on average each year, three fourths of which are concrete work.

[3] The company was established in 1907 by a Norwegian immigrant and carpenter Carl E. Overaa, who committed himself to rebuilding the Bay Area after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

[1] After the Great Recession the company worked on a number of projects supported by funds of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, including two projects for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

[8][9] In 2010, Overaa Construction logged the highest amount of man-hours among general contractors in Northern California.

[9] In March 2011, Christopher Manning, who worked at the company for 25 years, was appointed president after Peter Kappelhoff retired.