Universal Contracting Corporation, headquartered in Cincinnati since its inception in 1957, is a premier Cincinnati General Contractor for the entire Southwestern Ohio region who has grown into a single source contractor providing preplanning - from project estimating and budgeting to project completion. During the late 1950's and early 1960's, Cincinnati experienced major suburban growth resulting in a large influx of church, school, and commercial construction in both the private and public sectors.
Universal acted as the general contractor and worked along side ThermalTech to complete the TriHealth Data Center project. The project converted exam rooms, offices and x-ray rooms into a new, . Universal has been servicing AstraZeneca since 2013. We have performed many different projects at the West Chester, OH location, including work at the IQA Airlocks, Fill Line 3 and Security. Universal was contracted as the General Trades Contractor for the Meldahl Hydroelectric Plant. Our scope of services in the power plant included masonry walls, HM Doors and frames, overhead doors, .
Established in 1957, Universal has served as the Tri-States "landmark" General Contractor. The construction industry has vastly changed since 1957 and Universal is proud to stand atop the new landscape as a renowned construction manager. With a background as a general contractor, our staff is able to manage your project from pre-construction through commissioning with the use of experienced project management staff and field superintendents, with years of hands on construction experience. Our superintendents and foremen have worked in the field their entire careers, which allows them to pay attention to the finest detail.
Our design build services allow Universal Contracting to take complete and total responsibility for all the design and construction aspects of your project, including services like project programming, schematic design, development of design documents, specification development, project budgeting, constructability reviews, value engineering, schedule analysis, and bid package structuring as well as performing its standard management services during the construction phase of the project. Our clients have learned that our unique construction approaches allow early budget and time decisions to be made that often mean we can develop techniques with you that result in dramatic time compression for your next project.
Universal Contracting Corporation has been involved in General Contracting since its inception in 1957. General Contracting allows us to subcontract the work to our experts in the field, while managing the overall project, making sure to get your job done under any schedule. We have experience with this type of lump sum/fixed price contract work with many clients from Cincinnati and around the country. We have completed several projects under this type of contract, those including: event centers, hotels, restaurants, schools, medical facilities, athletic venues, churches and recreational facilities.
Here's a current photo of the progress at the Hillsboro High School Auditorium project.
We are proud of our work at Hillsboro High School, and value our partnership with Woolpert and Hillsboro City Schools.
Congratulations to Phil Neumann and Universal Contracting on winning the lifetime achievement award at the Spirit of Construction Foundation gala last night. Phil has been signatory for many decades and sits as a management trustee on many of our funds. Congratulations again Phil on your award. You deserve it.