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10) Truebeck Construction

 (415) 882-7423 | 333 Bryant Street Suite 140 San Francisco, CA 94107

Over the last decade, Truebeck Construction has leveraged lateral team structure and technological advancement to become a leading contractor in San Francisco. The company’s collaborative technology allows all teams associated with a project—from engineers to architects—to communicate via a streamlined platform for more efficient building. Truebeck ranks among the 75 largest commercial contractors in the Greater Bay Area, the top 100 private companies, and the Bay Area’s 100 fastest-growing private companies. In 2017, the company won the Construction Employers’ Association Excellence in Safety award.

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Featured Projects

Truebeck oversaw renovation of 1Tenth. The 10-story building, originally a 1970s-era warehouse, received a seismic upgrade featuring an exterior glass curtain wall. The ground floor was reconfigured for retail space, while the office spaces were converted to residential units with spacious floor plans. Currently home to Twitter headquarters, 1Tenth was awarded the 2015 ENR Best Project in the Renovation/Restoration category. Connected to 1355 Market Street via a landscaped plaza that features 19 retailers on a narrow lot—altogether, the buildings form Market Square. Renovations at 1355 Market Street preserved the building’s Art Deco style, but reconfigured floor plans to allow tenants to customize their space. Architectural Record dubbed the project an “urban game changer.” Truebeck is also the lead contractor for the construction of the new Uber Headquarters at Mission Bay. The campus, designed by SHoP Architects, will consist of two buildings—one 11 stories, the other 6 stories—joined by a landscaped walkway. Uber’s new offices will have space for about 3,000 employees.

9) Lendlease Group

 (415) 512-0586 | 71 Stevenson St Suite 800 San Francisco CA 94105

International contractor Lendlease Group has operated out of its Sydney, Australia headquarters since 1958, but it has come to be a cornerstone of San Francisco construction. Since the public developer and contractor opened its San Francisco regional office in 1986, it has secured over $1B of new construction contracts in Northern California. With over 12,000 employees across the world, Lendlease Group was one of ENR’s top 50 global contractors of 2016. The company was among ENR’s top starts in 2016 for their $275M contract to build Studio Gang Architect-designed 160 Folsom St.

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Featured Projects

Lendlease Group is the lead contractor on 33 Tehama, a luxury residential tower designed by Arquitectonica. The contractor excavated 55 feet below street level in order to create three levels of sub-grade parking. All 37 stories of the high-rise feature floor-to-ceiling glazing, with the entire exterior made of a glass curtain wall. Besides 403 one- and two-bedroom apartments, and penthouses, 33 Tehama will have a fitness center, a rooftop solarium, and 700 square-feet of retail space. Another high-rise project, the Folsom Bay Tower at 160 Folsom Street, will stand 39 stories tall and house 391 apartments. A Studio Gang project, the building has a unique design resembling a corkscrew, as if units are twisting around a core. The highly specific shape evolved from energy-conscious planning in tandem with a desire to create an elevated living experience

8) Hathaway Dinwiddie

Website | (415) 986-2718 275 | Battery Street Suite 300 San Francisco, CA 94111

Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company completed its first building, the Jackson Tower in Portland, Oregon, in 1911. In the century since, the company has amassed a portfolio of iconic San Francisco buildings, including the Transamerica Pyramid and One Market Plaza. Several of HDCC’s San Francisco projects have garnered awards: 50 United Nations Plaza won a Gold Award for Building Design & Construction; SFJAZZ Center won Best Public/Cultural Project from the San Francisco Business Times, and Centennial Tower won the Best Office Award in 2009. With HDCC’s strong hand in the San Francisco cityscape, it’s no wonder that ENR named the company California Contractor of the Year in 2016.

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Featured Projects

Hathaway Dinwiddie, in conjunction with Clark Construction Group, is constructing the Salesforce Tower at 415 Mission Street. The building will feature innovative air-intakes that will circulate fresh air throughout its 1.4 million feet of office space. There will also be 25,000 square feet of column-free interior space. Exchange Place at 350 Bush Street will be a 20-story office building. Designed by Heller Manus, the high-rise will feature a roof deck and two sub-grade parking levels. The build requires the absorption and preservation of an existing, historic San Francisco Mining Exchange, also the new tower’s namesake.

7) Plant Construction

Website | (415) 285-0500 | 300 Newhall Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

Plant brothers Buck, Dave, and Tom, opened their first office in 1947 in what would eventually become San Francisco’s Levi’s Plaza. Over time the company’s focus shifted from complex salvage jobs to custom-home building to working on a Korean War-era Navy contract. Though the Plant brothers handed their company to the next generation, it is still led by company veterans who have overseen the building of famed cultural institutions, such as the Contemporary Jewish Museum designed by architect Daniel Libeskind and the Alcatraz Quartermaster Warehouse. Plant Construction has developed a reputation for building functional yet expressive large-scale commercial and residential projects.

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Featured Projects

Plant Construction is collaborating with Tishman Construction on the Oceanwide Center, a $1.6B mixed-use project in downtown San Francisco. The project consists of two towers; the larger tower, rising to 910 feet, will have 1M square feet of office space and over 100 residential units. The design from Foster & Partners and Heller Manus calls for a faceted, glass facade that resembles a large jewel, rising to a pointed crystalline roof. An adaptive-reuse project, 100 Van Ness transformed an outdated commercial skyscraper into modern high-rise apartments, winning ENR’s 2015 Best of the Best Award. Plant Construction renovated a 12-story office building at 680 Folsom Street, adding three stories and 112,000 square feet of space to the structure. The original concrete facade was replaced with a sleek glazed curtain wall system. The building is certified LEED Platinum and won silver in Building Design & Construction’s 2014 Reconstruction Awards.

6) Level 10 Construction

Website | (415) 766-2380 49 | Stevenson Street, Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94105

Level 10 Construction LP was established in 2011 by five principals, all veterans in the field of construction. The private company has leveraged their flexibility and highly-trained team to become a leader in California. By 2017, Level 10 Construction was ranked one of the top five general contractors and second-largest builder of corporate office space in the Bay Area. ENR ranked the firm one of the 100 largest general contractors in the country. Recent clients include Amazon, Facebook, Google, Oracle, and Qualcomm. The company has received the 2016 Construction Employers’ Association President’s Safety Award and the 2016 Silicon Valley Business Journal Structures Awards Deal of the Year for the Central & Wolfe corporate campus contract, valued at $325M.

Photo Courtesy of Heller Manus Architects

Featured Projects

Designed by architectural firm Heller Manus, 181 Fremont is a 60-story mixed-use skyscraper reaching 802.5 feet high, including its spire. When the tower is completed in March 2018, it will be the largest mixed-use building west of the Mississippi and will feature a skybridge connecting it to the Transbay Center. With a $680M contract value, it was listed in the San Francisco Business Times as the 7th largest San Francisco construction project underway in June 2017. Level 10 also built MPK 20, Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park. The building features 433,555 square feet spread over two stories of open office space, cafes, clustered workstations, and a dazzling nine-acre green roof. Level 10 Construction’s projects also include UCSF Medical Center’s Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Ambulatory Care Center

5) Turner Construction

Website | (415) 705-8900 | 311 California Street, Suite 450 San Francisco, CA 94104

Turner Construction has been operating out of San Francisco since 1967, but Henry Turner originally established the firm in 1902. The company now boasts over 5,000 employees globally and over $10B of construction contracts per year. The company relies on Building Information Modeling to erect a project digitally to efficiently coordinate teams and establish best practices before breaking ground. With a clear focus on sustainability and energy-efficiency, Turner Construction is a founding member of the U.S. Green Building Council. In 2015, ENR ranked Turner Construction as the largest contractor in the country.

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Featured Projects

Turner Construction led the build of 555 Mission Street, an office tower in San Francisco’s South Financial District. Standing at 482 feet tall, the 33-story tower designed by award-winning architecture firms Kohn Pedersen Fox and Heller Manus, is a steel frame structure wrapped in a glass curtain wall. Besides the building itself, the site incorporates 11,000 square feet of outdoor public space. When the building was completed in 2008, it became San Francisco’s first LEED Gold certified new construction office tower. The “crown” at the top of the building has a color light display visible from around the city. Turner also built 222 Second Street, a building now leased entirely by LinkedIn. The 26-story glass and steel high-rise stands 370 feet above the market District. Designed by Gensler, and Thomas Phifer and Partners, the building is framed by sleek, sharp lines, draped in a subtly patterned glass-shingle curtain.

4) Swinerton Builders

Website | (415) 421-2980 | 260 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107

Swinerton Builders is a national firm with a California history dating back to its founding in 1888. One of its first projects, the Fairmont Hotel, was one of the few buildings left standing after the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906. The company would go on to build historic Ghirardelli Square, Levi’s Plaza, and the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph building, San Francisco’s first high-rise. Over 125 years later, and after national expansion, Swinerton Builders is still a leading contractor in the Bay Area. The company won a 2017 Merit Award for Design Excellence from American Society of Landscape Architects Northern California Chapter and ranked as an ENR top contractor in California in 2016.

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Featured Projects

Swinerton Builders was the main contractor on 399 Fremont, another addition to San Francisco’s array of luxury high-rises. Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz designed the 42-story glass and aluminum-clad tower and lower podium block to reflect the mix of large-scale and smaller multi-family buildings in Rincon Hill. The $317M budget included construction of 447 units, an outdoor terrace, a library, a day spa, and a swimming pool. The building earned the 2016 ENR Global Best Projects — Award of Merit, Residential/Hospitality and 2016 ENR California Best Project — Northern California, Residential/Hospitality. Swinerton has partnered with Arquitectonica to build Trinity Place. Its three residential towers offer over 1,600 units, underground parking, a rooftop deck, and retail spaces at ground level. At the center of the plaza stands one of San Francisco’s tallest public art pieces, a 92-foot Venus in Steel.

3) DPR Construction

Website | (415) 782-3700 | 945 Front Street San Francisco, California 94111

The namesake founders of DPR Construction, Doug Woods, Peter Nosler and Ron Davidowski, started the company in 1990. From a modest beginning, DPR Construction has grown to a multi-billion dollar business, jointly earning the original three principals San Francisco Business Times’ 2015 Most-Admired CEO award. A DPR project, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Corporate Headquarters won AIA SF’s Merit Design Award, and the 2010 AIA SF Honor Award for Integrated Practice went to the DPR Construction-built UCSF Regeneration Medicine Building. ENR ranks DPR among the top 20 contractors in the nation.

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Featured Projects

DPR Construction turned 27,000 square feet of space on Pier 9 into an office and workshop spaces for Autodesk. DPR formed concrete beams for a new substructure that would support the heavier load of a newly planned extra story on the pier. Besides office space and conference rooms with panoramic views of the Bay and skyline, Pier 9 required a unique set of workshops, including a metal shop, a 3D print shop, and a test kitchen. DPR Construction is also one of the contractors working on Apple Park, Apple’s Cupertino headquarters, often referred to as “the Spaceship campus.” Designed by Foster and Partners, the estimated budget for the project is around $5B. The main building is a four-story, glass-walled, circular structure that will house around 12,000 employees. Floor to ceiling glass allows for landscape views, as well as to the inner courtyard, a 30-acre site planted with fruit trees and plants native to Cupertino.

2) Webcor Builders

Website | (415) 978-1000 | 207 King Street Suite 300 San Francisco, CA 94107

Bill Wilson, Ross Edwards, Dave Boyd, and Miller Ream founded Webcor Builders in San Mateo in 1971, with only $20,000. The company’s first building in San Francisco, the Museum Parc high-rise, went up 16 years later and they have continued to helm award-winning projects, like the SFMOMA expansion, the Infinity towers, and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Webcor Builders was among ENR’s top 50 contractors in the U.S. in 2017 and among their top 15 green builders in the year prior.

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Featured Projects

Designed by Handel Architects and constructed by Webcor Builders, Millennium Tower at 301 Mission Street cost $350M to build. The main tower is the tallest concrete structure in San Francisco, standing at 645 feet. It is connected to an 11-story tower by a glass atrium. Apartments in Millennium Tower have drawn record prices on the West Coast. The towers, completed in 2008, won an award from the American Concrete Institute, Northern California chapter, the Outstanding Project Management Award from California Construction, and Outstanding Structural Engineering Project from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Webcor is also leading construction at the nearby Transbay Transit Center. The 1M square-foot project in downtown San Francisco is the largest approved public transportation project in the U.S. With a budget of $4B and designs from architect Pelli Clarke Pelli, the hub will connect eight counties in the Bay Area, and accommodate a future high-speed rail to Los Angeles.

1) Clark Construction Group

Website | (415) 767-7000 | 180 Howard Street Suite 1200 San Francisco, California 94105

Despite ten decades of mergers within a changeable industry, the 100-year-old Clark Construction Group has emerged as a top international general contractor. The company’s prolific portfolio testifies to its extensive history in large-scale building and restoration. The contractor’s San Francisco office has been in operation for over 30 years and oversees projects throughout Northern California. Clark Construction Group has earned over 1400 awards for contractors across several categories, including 15 Design-Build Institute of America Awards, four ENR Best of the Best Awards, and 19 Alliant Build America Awards.

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Featured Projects

Clark Construction Group is collaborating with Hathaway Dinwiddie on construction of the Salesforce Tower at 415 Mission Street. At 1,070 feet, it will be the tallest building in the western United States and will surpass the Chrysler Building in height. Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, and valued at $1B, the design for the 61-story office building is pre-certified LEED Platinum. Another office building, the Park Tower at Transbay, will stand 43 stories over downtown San Francisco. Pre-certified LEED Gold, the building features glass curtain walls ornamented with glass fins. In partnership with Mortenson Construction, Clark will build the Chase Center, an 18,000-seat sports and entertainment arena scheduled for completion in 2019. Designed by Kendall/Heaton Associates, the arena will stand on an 11-acre site in Mission Bay that will include retail space, two office buildings, and three acres of plazas and public space. The arena will be the home of the 2017 NBA champion Golden State Warriors.