75+ Years Building New Jersey.

75+ Years, Still Building

ML Ruberton Construction is a 75+ year, multi-generation New Jersey construction company, now part of the RoadGuard family. What started generations ago as a small local operation has grown into a contractor trusted on highway, bridge, and infrastructure projects across New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland — including extensive work throughout New York City — while staying true to the same hands-on, accountable way of working the company was built on.

That multi-generation history is not just a line in a company story — it’s 75+ years of accountable, hands-on construction work across New Jersey, New York, and the broader Mid-Atlantic. Today, ML Ruberton and Road Safety Systems have joined forces under the RoadGuard family of brands, working out of the same Folsom, New Jersey office. Both names stay in use because customers and agencies already know and trust them individually — ML Ruberton for bridge railing, fencing, and in-house fabrication; Road Safety Systems for highway guiderail, barriers, and signage.

“Still building” is a deliberate way to describe it. This isn’t a company that used to do the work and now just manages subcontractors from a distance — our own crews are still out on state highway shoulders repairing guiderail after a crash, still setting bridge rail anchors on a rehabilitation project, and still running the in-house fabrication shop that makes custom rail and fence components for jobs that a catalog part doesn’t fit. Three-quarters of a century in, the company’s day-to-day work still looks like construction, not just oversight.

We build guiderail, bridge railing, and highway signage for public infrastructure projects, fabricate custom rail, fence, and safety structures in-house, and install fencing for clients ranging from state DOTs to airports, schools, and stadiums. Our crews go anywhere we’re prequalified across the Mid-Atlantic, and our in-house fabrication shop means the same company that designs a solution is the one that builds it. That combination — a long track record, deep New Jersey roots, and a fabrication capability none of our sister brands have — is what we mean when we say we’re still building New Jersey.

Who We Work With

Our client list runs from state departments of transportation and county and municipal agencies to private commercial and institutional owners — school districts, shopping center operators, airport authorities, and stadium and sports facility managers among them. Public infrastructure work and private commercial projects often call for the same underlying skill set, whether that’s a state highway guiderail contract or a shopping center’s loading-dock fencing, and our crews move between both without missing a beat.

That range is part of what makes ML Ruberton different from a contractor that only works public bid work or only works private commercial jobs. Whatever the project, we bring the same crews, the same in-house fabrication shop, and the same standard of work — because after 75+ years in business, that consistency is the reputation ML Ruberton has built.