Founded in 1926 in Chicago, Power Construction is an 85-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 client types that tend to have the more complex kinds of projects:

Healthcare:	full range of acute care and outpatient facilities
Education:	athletic, classroom, lab, residence, central plant, conference, data center, fitness, food service, library, office, parking, performing arts, retail
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
Hospitality:	guest rooms, ballroom, conference, 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 150 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 85-year history, Power Construction has never been in litigation for performance matters with any client, architect or subcontractor.