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profile webcor builders

“We work closely with project

owners to help them understand

Providing Early Value the risks on a project and together

make informed decisions.”
> Andy Schreck, project director
+ Webcor Builders says its preconstruction work helps
it reduce costs and ensure it has adequate manpower to
deliver successful projects. By Staci Davidson

Webcor Builders
www.webcor.com
2007 sales: $1.2 billion Webcor says its experience
brings innovation and efficiency
Headquarters: San Mateo, Calif.
to its work throughout California.
Service: General contracting
Employees: 500

> With almost 40 years of experience

in the California construction industry,
Webcor Builders says it has developed a
strong reputation for using its experi-
enced team to bring innovation and effi-
ciency to its work. The company says its
work is guided by three factors: princi-
pals’ active roles in every project; tech-
nical expertise; and a commitment to
maintain honest and open communica-
tions with everyone involved on a proj-
ect. Webcor says its success is the result
of its focus on these three factors.
“We start providing value at the very
beginning of a project,” Project Director
Andy Schreck says. “We work with our
clients to help them make good deci-
sions and guide them through the
process. We’re builders and take great
pride in our work.
“We use our vast construction experi-
ences and implement value engineering
techniques to provide our clients with
as many options to consider and apply projects, including work in the commer- major project challenges and set high
to the project design. It is important to cial office, residential, healthcare, measurable goals while sharing them
use innovative ideas and best practices biotech and renovation sectors. with the entire project team. The build-
to ensure we provide a high level of During its involvement with The ing design was the heaviest articulated
value to our clients, as well as a success- Palms 555 4th Street project in San exterior skin Webcor has ever seen on
ful project.” Francisco, Schreck says Webcor paper from an estimating perspective.
Based in San Mateo, Calif., Webcor approached the construction of this The actual construction and ensuring a
has offices throughout the state in San condominium and town home building watertight building was more of a chal-
Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco; it as it does with most other projects. He lenge, and it became Webcor’s goal to
also has two concrete divisions working explains this involves “extensive” pre- deliver a quality product that performed
in the northern and southern sections construction efforts. during winter storms. We worked hard
of the state. To date, the company has “We treated this job as a design/build in our preplanning effort before we
built more than 50 million square feet of project,” he says. “We identified our broke ground or started an activity.

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