The company was among Florida's oldest general construction contractors and built many of Jacksonville's civil and corporate buildings, including the City Hall.

[6] The Auchter Company also helped build ships needed for World War II, as part of the US Navy's Emergency Shipbuilding Program.

Auchter also trained as an engineer at Rutgers College and was living in Red Bank, New Jersey, when his employer sent him to Florida to work on a bridge project in the early 1920s.

He received Florida engineering license #375 in 1922, and initially concentrated on bridges and overpasses, founding the George D. Auchter Company in 1929.

The Auchter Company did design and engineering work for both on-site construction and pre-construction pieces shipped worldwide.

It built office buildings, factories, bridges, warehouses, resorts, churches, museums, residential projects, hospitals, and power generating stations.

For the war effort built pulpwood barges, floating repair drydocks, and concrete ships.

The company continued its tradition of building Jacksonville's major works and expanded to other Florida locations.

In 1999, the Auchter Company moved its headquarters to a First Coast Technology Park on the University of North Florida's campus.