Top 25 California general contractors (2014)

This list considers general contractors that specialize in discretionary home improvement projects, e.g. kitchen, bath, or other room remodels/additions for both single and multifamily housing; firms that mainly focus on a narrow facet of home remodels or repairs (e.g. roofs, doors, windows, etc)  were omitted. The total number of building permits captures different types of projects. Sometimes, permits are missing project valuation, we controlled for this by calculating average valuation as a function of total project valuation and the permits that did include project valuation. The average valuation is omitted in the case that the project valuation was missing completely from the permit data. 

After considering the top 25, a few things jumped out: 

• Top two contractors – Jassos Construction Co. and Treeium Eco Home Remodeling each obtained over 300 building permits in 2014, that’s double the amount of the third most active contractor.
• The North-South split  – 13 of the top 25 general contractors are headquartered in Southern California, and they account for 57% of all building permits represented on the list. (Conversely, Northern Californian contractors hold 12 spots and account for 43%.)
• Hing Wah Construction Inc. ($85,520) and CTR Builders Inc. ($2,060) represent the high and low extremes of average valuation. 

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