Swinerton

Swinerton Inc.
Private/employee-owned
Industry General contracting, green building
Founded 1888
Founder Alfred Bingham Swinerton
Headquarters 260 Townsend Street, San Francisco, California
Key people
Mike Re, CEO and chairman
Jeffrey C. Hoopes, president
Gary Rafferty executive VP and COO
Website www.swinerton.com

Swinerton Incorporated provides commercial construction services in the Western United States. It offers construction services for commercial office, retail, multi-family residential, hospitality, healthcare, education, and entertainment sectors. The company also provides pre-construction services, including budgeting, scheduling, value management, and planning. Based in San Francisco, California, Swinerton Incorporated was founded in 1888 and holds California Contractors License No. 92, and has additional offices in Denver, Hawaii, Texas, New Mexico, Portland, and Seattle.

History

Swinerton Incorporated was founded in 1888 by Charles Lindgren. In the late 1800s, Lindgren partnered with Lewis Hicks, a civil engineer who pioneered the innovation of steel-reinforced concrete in buildings. During the construction of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco the Great Earthquake & Fire of 1906 occurred and one of the few buildings to survive was the Fairmont Hotel.

Swinerton also built San Francísco's Ghirardelli Square, as well as one of the first green buildings in the nation, the Weyerhaeuser Headquarters in Federal Way, Washington. Swinerton also develops and has constructed high-rise offices including the San Francisco Centre, Levi's Plaza and the Gap Worldwide Headquarters.

Notable buildings and projects

Building technologies and innovation

Swinerton provides clients with Building Information Modeling technologies combined with VD&C processes for 3D (CAD), 4D (schedule simulation), 5D (cost-estimating) and 6D (building life-cycle performance analysis) to ensure that their projects are built most efficiently.[2]

Services

General contracting

Professional consulting

Delivery methods

References

  1. Buchholz, Jan (25 June 2013). "Staff Writer". Austin Business Journal. Austin Business Journal. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  2. "Swinerton Technology Page". Swinerton Inc. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
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