General Contractor in Kennewick, WA
Entrust Your Project to Our Construction Team in Kennewick, WA
O’Brien Construction Company, Inc. is both a design-build and bid-build full-service general contractor. Our seasoned construction professionals know effective communication between the contractor and client is the key to a successful project. Through good communication, we can convey your expectations to other members of the team, ensuring that the final output meets your needs.
As a valued client of O’Brien Construction Company, Inc., you’ll benefit from our wide selection of services. We’re dedicated to increasing the value of your investment and creating a functional and beautiful space for your business. We aim to deliver great value to you, your customers, and our communities.
Professional Construction Services
General Contracting Services
As your general contractor, O’Brien Construction Company, Inc. is responsible for delivering the finished building. We price the work, pull the permits, hire and schedule every trade, run safety and quality on site, manage the budget and change orders, and hand over a completed and inspected building.
You deal with one company rather than twenty. That matters most when something changes mid-build, because there is one party accountable for absorbing it into the schedule rather than a chain of people pointing at each other.
We hold an active Washington contractor license and bond, carry the insurance, and run our own crews alongside the specialist trades. For almost any commercial project in Washington, a licensed general contractor is not optional, and choosing the right one decides what the process feels like for the next several months.
Construction Management Services
Our construction management team will coordinate the planning, designing, and construction phases of your project. You’ll work with one of our advisors during the planning phase until the completion to ensure everyone is working toward the same goal.
Preconstruction Services
Before starting your project, we’ll meet with you to discuss your needs and present possible building designs. Once the specs of the building are finalized, the building process will begin.
Design-Build Services
Design-build is a delivery method where one contractor holds both the design and the construction contract. Instead of hiring an architect, completing drawings and then putting the job out to bid, you sign with a single team that carries the project from concept through to handover.
It usually shortens the overall schedule, because design and pricing run together rather than one after the other. It also gives you one point of accountability when something has to change mid-build.
Design-build suits you when you know what your business needs but do not yet have drawings. If you already have an architect and a completed set, bid-build is the better route. O’Brien works both ways, so the decision is made on what suits your project rather than on what we happen to offer.
Bid-Build Services
In bid-build, also called design-bid-build, you engage an architect to complete the design first, then contractors bid on those finished drawings.
It gives you the most control over design detail and a directly comparable set of prices, because every bidder is pricing the same documents. The trade-off is a longer overall schedule, since design has to finish before pricing can begin.
If you arrive with a completed set of drawings, this is how we will price and build them.