Founded in 1926 in Chicago, Power Construction is an 82-year old management-owned commercial construction company with a unique business model.

Power has chosen to limit its geographic reach to just the greater Chicago area. Doing so enables senior management to provide hands-on leadership for each project day-to-day and ensures that staff are able to be home with family and friends each night... no crazy travel requirements here. With more than $500 million in revenue each year, Power is the largest builder that works exclusively in this region.

Power has chosen to concentrate on serving just five private-sector client types that tend to have the more complex kinds of projects:

Corporate:	office, R&D, data center, distribution, parking deck, light manufacturing, training, conference, clean room, fitness, food service,
Developer:	mixed-use, office, residential, hotel, distribution, medical office, outpatient, retail, entertainment, fitness, senior living
Education:	athletic, classroom, lab, residence, central plant, conference, data center, fitness, food service, library, office, parking, performing arts, retail
Healthcare:	full range of acute care and outpatient facilities
Hospitality:	guest rooms, ballroom, conference center, lobby, administration, parking, fitness, pool, restaurant, food service, retail, senior living

Operationally, Power uses a specific values-based approach to drive everything from recruiting new staff to running construction in the field. Check out the "Key Actions" in our Mission & Values Statement. With 225 professionals and 200 tradesmen, people say "Power offers the feel of a small company and the opportunities and resources of a large firm".

Finally, the only real objective the firm gives to its people is amazingly simple and straight-forward... "understand the expectations of clients, architects and subcontractors, then work hard to exceed those expectations".

Proof of Power's success can be found in the fact that more than 90% of its workload is awarded to the firm from repeat clients. Even more impressive is the fact that in its 82-year history, Power Construction has never been in litigation for performance matters with any client, architect or subcontractor.