CONSTRUCTION
COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION BY
EXPERIENCED BUILDERS
When it’s time to break ground on your commercial construction project, we’re committed to hitting your completion date. Our driven project management and supervision ensure that we meet all scheduling, safety, quality, and budget requirements.
It’s our priority to deliver the building you want when you want it done. With a team of managers and skilled builders, we can perform a wide variety of services to meet your needs, including self-perform capabilities in concrete, demolition, framing, seismic retrofitting, and more.
OUR APPROACH
The four pillars of successful commercial construction
Schedule
Your completion date is essential. It dictates when you can open your doors to customers, employees, and students. That’s why we create a custom construction schedule that considers every aspect of your project—and what needs to happen to get it done on time. We’ve never needed a recovery plan because we always meet our commitments, even with the tightest timelines.
We develop and control our construction schedules through:
Preliminary baseline scheduling
During pre-construction, we create an accurate CPM schedule with the bidding documents.
Baseline schedule creation
Once subcontractors are procured, we “baseline” the schedule by gathering everyone’s input regarding duration, logic, and human resources. All information is added to the CPM schedule.
Use of intermediate milestones
We set, prioritize, and track all significant milestones throughout construction. These milestones ensure the project is on schedule and allow time for corrections.
Monthly updating and daily tracking
Updating the schedule monthly and tracking human resources daily keeps your project on track. We continue to use the baseline schedule as a tool for control throughout construction.
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SAFETY
As a construction company that self-performs 40–50% of our work, we maintain an excellent safety record and take great pride in sending our workers home safely every night.
We ensure our projects are conducted safely by implementing the following practices:
- Full-time supervision
- Subcontractor orientation
- Weekly toolbox talks
- Phasing communication for public
- Temporary partitions/barriers as needed
- Overhead protection for multi-story applications
- Safe access routes
- Fall protection plans and execution
- Personnel protective gear
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SAFETY
As a construction company that self-performs 40–50% of our work, we take great pride in sending our workers home safely every night. Griffin Construction has had zero recordable injuries among our personnel, subcontractors, and civilians.
We ensure our projects are conducted safely by implementing the following practices:
- Full-time supervision
- Subcontractor orientation
- Weekly toolbox talks
- Phasing communication for public
- Temporary partitions/barriers as needed
- Overhead protection for multi-story applications
- Safe access routes
- Fall protection plans and execution
- Personnel protective gear
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Quality
Quality is at the heart of everything we do. When you do something right the first time, everyone wins. We approach every commercial construction project with a watertight quality control plan to keep things on schedule, improve cost efficiency, yield better results, and exceed client expectations. Plus, the best subcontractors choose to do business with general contractors who value quality.
We ensure quality control at every phase of construction by:
- Implementing job-specific subcontractor quality control plans
- Running first install verifications
- Paying close attention to all submittals (no rubber stamping!)
- Developing water intrusion prevention plans
- Following up verification (pre-punching)
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BUDGET
As an owner, you have a few ways to select a general contractor. A hard bid is the most traditional and widely used by most public and some private entities. We stay up-to-date on the market and self-perform work in many categories to stay competitive with the hard bid approach.
We also offer CM/GC and design/build approaches. If you choose one of these approaches, you can typically expect no change orders unless you choose to add additional work to the GMP scope. We always communicate budget adjustments in advance.
We maintain cost-effective budgeting by:
- Performing in-depth pre-construction evaluation to anticipate all potential conditions
- Working with subcontractors before bid time
- Conducting constructability reviews
- Value engineering for high-quality, cost-effective means and methods
- Evaluating front-end conditions and general requirements
- Creating allowances for items that cannot bid at a reasonable price for reasons such as fluctuating market conditions
- Having contingency plans in place to handle unknowns
- Maintaining project control by incorporating competitive self-perform work as possible
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BUDGET
As an owner, you have a few ways to select a general contractor. A hard bid is the most traditional and widely used by most public and some private entities. We stay up-to-date on the market and self-perform work in many categories to stay competitive with the hard bid approach.
We also offer CM/GC and design/build approaches. If you choose one of these approaches, you can typically expect no change orders unless you choose to add additional work to the GMP scope. We always communicate budget adjustments in advance.
We maintain cost-effective budgeting by:
- Performing in-depth pre-construction evaluation to anticipate all potential conditions
- Working with subcontractors before bid time
- Conducting constructability reviews
- Value engineering for high-quality, cost-effective means and methods
- Evaluating front-end conditions and general requirements
- Creating allowances for items that cannot bid at a reasonable price for reasons such as fluctuating market conditions
- Having contingency plans in place to handle unknowns
- Maintaining project control by incorporating competitive self-perform work as possible
LET’S BUILD
Put us to work on your next construction project.
Got a commercial construction project in the pipeline? We’d love to hear from you. Contact us to talk about your project scope, schedule, and goals. Once we know your project specs, we’ll put together a custom bid tailored to your needs.