Case Studies Region: West

Don Colburn founded Colburn Construction Inc. (CCI) in 1999 to proudly bring some of the most talented skilled tradesmen available together through the various construction trade unions in order to provide customers with the best in quality and craftsmanship. As a union-affiliated contractor, CCI employees are held to the highest standards of professionalism, quality, safety […]

Despite facing an economic environment that brought various challenges to the construction industry over the past decade, Colorado-based MTech Mechanical Technologies Group Inc. (MTech) utilized a client-focused approach and a superior service strategy to become Colorado’s leader in providing mechanical systems for the commercial and industrial industries. Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2012, MTech offers […]

Orange County plastering Company Inc. (OCP) is one of Southern California’s oldest interior wall contractors, with over 50 years of experience and capabilities running the gamut of traditional and modern applications. The company got its feet wet as a union contractor specializing in lath and plaster, but today the OCP team can tackle drywall, fireproofing, […]

Collaboration and teamwork has remained the key to innovation at Okland Construction (Okland) since Norwegian carpenter John Okland founded the Salt Lake City Utah-based construction group in 1918, so it’s no surprise that Okland was chosen as the general contractor for a new high-tech campus for Adobe Systems Inc. (Adobe) in Lehi, Utah. Okland has […]

As recently as 2009, Tiger Electric Inc. was known almost exclusively as an industrial electrical construction contractor with a background in industrial electronics, motion controls and drive repair serving markets such as the food and beverage, blown film and injection molded plastics, grain/paper milling and material handling systems. Up until that time the company concentrated […]

Gary Graham and Sean Prewett founded Graham-Prewett Inc. (GPI) in 2001 after a series of mergers and acquisitions at their previous employers left the two wanting to work for a company more cleanly structured and service-oriented. Subsequently built from the ground up in Fresno, Calif., GPI has managed to become one of the key roofing […]

BMY Construction Group Inc. (BMY) was founded in 2004 to offer a more complete general contracting experience to public and private agencies in California’s Central Valley. The Fresno-based company maintains both Class A and B Contracting license to provide general building and general engineering services. Above all, BMY takes pride in collaborating with clients throughout […]

High Light Electric Inc. (HLE) has remained family-owned, operated and -oriented since Pedro T. Mendoza and Margarita Mendoza founded the company 15 years ago. “It all started with my father helping me found the company,” says Erwin Mendoza, vice president of HLE. “Today it’s me, my brothers and their wives and my mom, so it’s […]

Richard Woolsey founded Richard & Richard Construction Company Inc. (R&R) in 1991 as a small tenant improvement (T.I.) contractor. The company has since expanded with a T.I. division, a restaurant division and a division for ground-up construction, but R&R’s humble approach remains steadfast. The R&R team aims to convert one-time customers into longtime clients by […]

W.E. O’Neil Construction Company (WEO) leads the construction industry by building trust and long-term relationships with its clients through teamwork, diverse industry experience and a proactive, technologically integrated approach to construction that results in higher quality buildings. The Chicago, Ill.-based firm has almost 90 years of industry experience behind it and over three decades of […]