Building in the Northwest since 1971.
A carpentry contractor that became a general contractor, then a design-builder, then a company owned by the people who work in it.
Every eligible employee is an owner.
In 2009 the founding family sold the company to its employees through an employee stock ownership plan. Superintendents, carpenters, estimators and accountants all hold shares, and the company's results show up in their retirement accounts.
Ownership changes how people work. A superintendent who owns part of the company protects the budget as if it were their own, because in part it is.
Fifty-some years, in seven lines.
- 1971A carpentry contractor in Portland
Founded as a concrete and carpentry contractor working for other builders.
- 1983First hospital
First healthcare project as general contractor: a surgical addition built beside an operating hospital.
- 1988Seattle office
Opened to follow university and research clients north.
- 1996Spokane office
Schools and public work across the Inland Northwest.
- 2009Employee-owned
The founding family sold the company to its employees through an ESOP.
- 2014Boise office
Opened for design-build industrial and healthcare work in southern Idaho.
- 2019Prefabrication shop
A shop in Kent, Washington, building headwalls, racks and other assemblies.
How we decide.
- Everyone goes home the way they came
No schedule or budget is worth an injury. Anyone can stop work.
- Say the number early
Owners hear about cost and schedule risk when it can still be managed, not when it has already happened.
- Build it ourselves when it matters
Our own crews on the work that sets the schedule.
- Pay partners like we want to be paid
Trade partners are paid within thirty days of an approved invoice.
