Empire State Highway Contractors Association, Inc. H&W Plan for the EES of D.A. Collins Co., Inc.

Empire State Highway Contractors Association, Inc. H&W Plan for the EES of D.A. Collins Co., Inc.

The Empire State Highway Contractors Association, Inc. H&W Plan serves the employees of D.A. Collins Co., Inc., a third-generation family-owned heavy-civil construction firm founded over 75 years ago. The plan operates through the industry association that gives it its name, with David Keenan as Executive Director of the association and Colleen Seymour as the plan's administrator. David Collins, grandson of the founder, leads the operating company as CEO and President. The plan's estimated $5 million in assets (Altss estimate) is deployed conservatively, consistent with the fiduciary posture of a private-sector defined-benefit or health-and-welfare vehicle. The sponsor company, D.A. Collins Companies, operates across heavy-civil transportation, marine/hydro, industrial/energy, and materials supply. It maintains a $98 million equipment fleet, five asphalt plants, six quarries, and multiple concrete and precast facilities, primarily serving New York and Vermont. Beyond the pension vehicle, the Collins family controls a substantial portfolio of real property. Holdings include the corporate headquarters at 269 Ballard Road in Wilton, New York, the Moreau Industrial Park, the Malta Global Technology Park, the Mechanicville Campus, and the Fort Edward Industrial Park, alongside residential parcels in Saratoga. The family also maintains a corporate aircraft and a broad equipment fleet. Barbara Longe, daughter of founder D.A. Collins, leads the Collins Charitable Foundation, which operates alongside the D.A. Collins Endowment Fund for Cystic Fibrosis. In 2023, the company celebrated its 75th anniversary under third-generation leadership. The plan's structural distinction lies in its integration with a multi-employer-style industry association — the Empire State Highway Contractors Association — while ultimately serving a single-family-controlled operating company. That dual identity places it at the intersection of a captive corporate benefits plan and a collectively bargained trust, a narrow legal architecture common among union-affiliated heavy-construction employers in the northeastern United States.