NC Infrastructure & Supply Chain Council
Moving NC Forward.
In early 2025, the NC Chamber launched the NC Infrastructure & Supply Chain Council.
The Infrastructure and Supply Chain Council comprises of NC Chamber members and NC Chamber Foundation investors focused on addressing key issues in infrastructure and supply chain planning, development, strategy, investment, and policy in North Carolina. This council provides a collaborative platform with regular engagement for industry leaders, policymakers, and a wide range of stakeholders to discuss North Carolina’s infrastructure and supply chain future.
Members of the council may gain valuable insights, inform policy decisions, and contribute to solutions that drive economic growth and development in North Carolina across all industrial and commercial sectors with an interest in infrastructure and North Carolina’s robust supply chain ecosystem.
NC Infrastructure & Supply Chain Council Benefits Include:
- Quarterly Council Meetings on topics important to the industry (eg. diversified funding, permitting, labor climate, etc.)
- Eligibility for inclusion in the NC Manufacturing Tour where appropriate
- First-to-know intelligence from our Government Affairs team on legislation and policies that may impact NC infrastructure and supply chain
- Exclusive access via council meetings with key infrastructure and supply chain players across industries statewide
- 1:1 access and open door policy with NC Chamber government affairs team and input on our legislative agenda
- Quarterly invitations to NC Chamber regional roundtables with top business leaders across industries
- Research and data from the NC Chamber Foundation on topics such as supply chain, water infrastructure systems, etc.
- Listing on Council webpage
Annual Event: Building NC, April 17, Durham
Venture into the dynamic terrain of our state’s infrastructure and chart the path forward as we steer our networks through the challenges posed by our surging population and unparalleled growth. We will discuss the advances that are reshaping the energy and water, sewer, and solid waste landscapes, explore the critical need for workforce housing access, and dive into the strategies, innovations, and policies required to ensure that our state remains competitive on the national and global stage.
NC Infrastructure & Supply Chain Council Member Spotlight
NC Ports
Well-equipped and professionally operated ports can enhance the efficiency and profitability of the businesses that rely on them. North Carolina Ports’ commitment to excellence helps ensure success for shippers, carriers, manufacturers, distribution centers, retailers and the region as a whole.
Barnhill Contracting Company
The sixth-largest contractor in North Carolina, Barnhill Contracting Company is a family of builders, creating solutions that enable partners to succeed, communities to thrive, and employees to grow.
Steel Network
The Steel Network, Inc. (TSN) is a manufacturer of light gauge (cold-formed) steel studs and connectors based in the United States, with locations in North Carolina, Texas, and Arizona. TSN provides solutions for all standard light steel framing applications, including load bearing mid-rise construction systems, curtain wall systems, rigid connectors, vertical deflection connectors, lateral drift connectors, and short wall connectors.
Pike Electric
With a 75-year track record, Pike Corporation is a leading provider of turnkey infrastructure solutions for electric and gas utilities, as well as telecommunications companies. Pike works with hundreds of utility clients across the country and is continuously expanding its offerings to supply them with the ideas, technology, experience, manpower, and equipment they need to perform any job. As our society’s demands on infrastructure increase and technology options diversify, Pike has the experience and resources to take on any challenge.
Solutions and Advocacy: Infrastructure & Supply Chain
The NC Chamber has a history of leading on infrastructure issues. In 2015, we launched our NC Can’t Afford to Wait initiative, which helped secure more than $1 billion in transportation revenue for our state, including millions in recurring revenue – the first true long-term transportation funding reforms passed in North Carolina since 1989. We continued that success in 2019 and 2020 with our NC Can’t Afford to Stop Coalition, which helped pass legislation that infused almost $300 million into DOT by way of the Highway Trust Fund and Build NC bonds. The budget reforms advanced by the NC Chamber in 2023 are key in continuing the momentum of the sales tax dedication last year and significantly bolstering transportation revenue decades into the future. We will be at 6% by the end of fiscal year 2025. This is a significant win.
Despite this progress, however, it isn’t enough.
Surging costs from historic storms, revenue shortfalls, widespread project delays, and the COVID-19 pandemic have all contributed to our state’s transportation challenges. Even more alarming, however, are the objective studies showing that North Carolina depends far too heavily on the motor fuels tax to generate transportation revenue.
In addition, supply chains are often at the whim of geopolitical occurrences, labor strikes, government incentives, and political agendas.
The NC Chamber and its Infrastructure & Supply Chain Council aim to set the temperature on these issues, ensuring that our state’s policies and budgets buttress the expansion and maintenance of reliable, safe infrastructure networks, while moving goods at the speed of business. Join us in these efforts.
Our NC Infrastructure & Supply Chain Council Members
| American Airlines | Flagger Force | Railroad Friction Products Corporation |
| Amiad Water Systems | FOCUS Broadband | RDU Airport Authority |
| Aqua North Carolina | Geosyntec Consultants | Reworld |
| Arauco | GFL Environmental | Ripple Fiber |
| ASSA ABLOY | Haeco Americas | S.T. Wooten Corporation |
| AT&T North Carolina | Hitachi ABB | Siemens Corporation |
| Baker Roofing Company | HNTB Corporation | Siemens Energy |
| Barnhill Contracting Company | Honda Aero Inc. | Southern Power Company |
| Brasfield & Gorrie | Honeywell | Spangler Environmental |
| Bridgestone Americas | Hoopaugh Grading Company | Stericycle |
| Brightspeed | Jacobs Engineering Group | The Steel Network |
| BSH Home Appliances | Kimmel & Associates | Whiting-Turner Contracting Company |
| Carolina CAT | LDA Engineering | Trader Construction Co. |
| Caterpillar | Lyft | TranSystems |
| Charter Communications | Lyndon Steel Company | Uber Technologies |
| Cintra US Services | Martin Marietta | UPS |
| Cirba Solutions | McKim & Creed | Verizon |
| Clancy & Theys | MVP Southgate | Volvo Trucks & Mack Trucks North America |
| Columbia Forest Products | NASCAR Inc. | Vontier Corporation |
| Construction Partners Inc. | National Gypsum Company | Vulcan Materials |
| Corix Regulated Utilities | NC Electric Cooperatives | Wake Stone Corporation |
| Corning | Norfolk Southern Corp. | Windstream |
| Crowder Construction | NC Railroad Company | WSP USA |
| Dell Technologies | NC State Ports Authority | Yamaha Marine Group |
| Delta Airlines | Nucor | |
| Denso | Old Dominion Freight Line | |
| Doosan Bobcat | Packrite | |
| Duke Energy | Pay Tel Communications | |
| East Coast Drilling & Blasting | Pike Corporation | |
| Electricities of North Carolina | Pine Hall Brick Company | |
| Enbridge | Quality Equipment |
Join the NC Infrastructure & Supply Chain Council