Brian Abeld

For nearly two decades, Brian has garnered a wealth of construction expertise through building and leading groundbreaking projects across the country. Currently, Brian leads Mortenson’s Electric Vehicle and Microgrid Infrastructure team, along with its Structured Cable team supporting the data center market, as the vice president and general manager. In this role, Brian's responsibilities include providing overall strategy and leadership for the team, including business development, estimating, preconstruction, and construction operations.

Brian has a wide range of experience in engineering, procurement, and construction delivery methods of power generation (wind, solar, and battery storage), power delivery (substations and transmission lines), and utility interconnection. This knowledge is invaluable to our customers as they navigate their way through the design and schedule challenges often encountered to make their project pro forma and timeline a reality in an emerging technology.

Brian began his journey with Mortenson's Wind group in 2006 as a field engineer and has since advanced through various roles in his career with our company. In 2013, he became one of the first members of the Power Delivery team, where he played a leading role in its growth and diversification. He helped transform the sector into the successful business it is today by forming trusted relationships with customers and driving key projects from pursuit to completion.

As the electrical vehicle and microgrid infrastructure market is in its infancy, Brian leverages his experience to set our customers up for success and guide the group’s direction. 

Brian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Management from North Dakota State University. Other than his time spent in the field on project sites across the country, Brian has always called Minnesota “home”. He resides in the Minneapolis metro area with his wife and toddler son, spending his time introducing his son to every sport possible, completing his wife’s honey-do list often including DIY home improvement projects, and enjoying most summer weekends at the lake on the pontoon dreaming of a new wake boat while cleaning up the crumbs from his large family after a long day on the water.