Rudolph and Sletten is a general contracting firm on the United States west coast providing general contracting and construction management services, from site selection and preconstruction services through project completion. The Company is headquarters in Redwood City, California with regional offices in Roseville, Irvine, and San Diego.
Areas of construction experience include corporate campuses and office buildings, casinos, educational institutions, housing, and retail facilities. The Company is the number one healthcare builder in the state of California according to the San Diego Transcript.[1]
In addition, the company has 145 LEED certified professionals in-house. LEED certified projects constructed by Rudolph and Sletten include the Molecular Foundry, located on the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory campus, as well as other sustainable projects as the Sun Microsystems Santa Clara Campus and Shaklee World Headquarters. Rudolph and Sletten was listed third amongst West Coast Construction companies with the most LEED certified employees according to Sustainable Industry magazine.[2]
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In 1959 Onslow H. "Rudy" Rudolph formed a small contracting company, O.H. Rudolph, General Contractor, based out of his garage in Los Altos, California. Starting with just a small amount of savings, a pickup truck and two employees. In 1962, Kenneth G. Sletten joined the business as partner and the company was renamed Rudolph and Sletten, Inc., General and Engineering Contractors.
Due to the company’s location in Silicon Valley, it follows that its growth paralleled that of the valley. The firm built some of Silicon Valley's first clean rooms, micro-prcessing plants and biotech laboratories. Rudolph and Sletten has grown from a small business to a corporation with current employees numbering over 650, many of whom are second and third generation employees.
Today, Rudolph and Sletten is ranked the fifth largest contractor in California and the largest health care contractor in the state according top California Construction Magazine.[3]