Schaefer General Contracting

Through decades of experience, we have mastered the art of restoring old buildings of all sizes and periods. These buildings present a different set of variables and challenges, and it takes skilled and experienced tradespeople to handle it carefully. We love stepping up to bring these buildings back to life. We're also well versed in delivering the best possible construction work for places of worship. We provide solid vision alignment with the church board members, parishioners, and architect.

Schaefer has gotten the chance to put our expertise to work on exciting and vibrant multi-family projects since our inception. Our single-source, turn-key approach is perfectly suited to helping developers and owners achieve their goals, and our Construction Management Team has learned how to stay ahead of the multi-family industry game. We pride ourselves on providing our clients with the personal attention and owner involvement we know they want and expect, and we're here to pinpoint potential issues and address them before they become problems.

From retail to corporate spaces, we've worked all across the U.S. performing various types of general contracting work for commercial clients. We understand the importance of how a project schedule can impact commercial and retail clients' businesses, and pro-formas, therefore we strive to compress the schedule to accommodate investment goals associated with the project. Because we've been in the business, we know that the cost of construction is a one-time investment, and represents the smaller cost of the total cost of the building over its life cycle.

We provide construction management services as an owner's agent, or on an at-risk basis. By acting as an extension of the owner's team, Schaefer frees the owner to focus on other project dynamics while we orchestrate the details based on established goals and budgets. Working together from the start of the project, our construction management team can quickly identify and resolve potential project challenges. As Construction Manager at Risk, we work with the design consulting team and stakeholders to optimize the design, schedule and cost.

From the initial vision to the finished design, Schaefer can work collaboratively with a project's owner and design partners to understand all relevant business objectives, intent, and parameters. Most importantly, we'll do it within your budget and on time. During the construction management process, we're able to expertly evaluate and align the work scope and project budget. We can recommend cost-saving measures and alternatives grounded in experience and assemble detailed design-stage project estimates using industry-respected estimating systems.

In our design-build approach, we contract directly with a company to perform design and construction services. This is the perfect contract for clients who know exactly what they need because it simplifies delivery, design services procurement and construction services, and it offers the convenience of dealing with a single-source delivery system. We select the ideally-suited project team, and we manage the design and construction team in a collaborative framework. This process can minimize an owner's risk while keeping a fast-paced delivery schedule because certain design and construction phases can be delivered concurrently.