In 1953, Stenstrom began earning its solid reputation for craftsmanship and quality construction.

Since that time, this premier general contractor has been trusted to build countless industrial, commercial and institutional buildings throughout the region.

Schools, churches, hospitals, municipal buildings, restaurants, shopping centers, auto dealerships, warehouses, and gas stations have all benefited from Stenstrom's decades of management, supervision and construction expertise.

Our reputation for completing tough projects with demanding time and budget constraints stems in part from the tools we use. We support our crews in the field with modern equipment in good repair...from pickups to back hoes, compressors, cement mixers, road graders, welders, dump trucks, and cranes...Our crews can start a job confident that they won't be hamstrung along the way by equipment shortages and breakdowns.

We support our office personnel in similar fashion, with the latest in computer systems to assist in accounting, estimating, job cost, and billing.

In short, a consistent policy of re-investment has enabled us to work harder, faster, and smarter - and serve our clients better.

During construction, we use our own field crews and excavating, concrete, and carpentry crews to assure you of the coordination and control of all these vital services. As a single - source supplier of these resources, we can more readily insure quality & a timely completion of the project. With your project, you have the choice to which project delivery system to use. Your choice includes:

• Lump Sum General Contracting (Design - bid - build process)
• Cost - Plus a Fee/Guaranteed Maximum Price General Contracting
• Design - Build
• Construction Management

The traditional design-bid-build/lump sum project delivery system is used most in public construction projects. Solid lines indicate contractual relationships. The dashed line indicate a non-contractual administrative relationship.

The pre-construction relationship between design the team and general contractor for value engineering and constructability. The contract may be for a lump sum or a cost-plus a fee, the latter usually having guaranteed maximum price.

Consultative means that the design team is a separate entity, contracting with a general contractor on a project-by project basis. In consultative Design Build, the design team usually has an administrative relationship with the owner.

There are two basic types of construction management, "agency" and "at-risk". A key difference is which party holds the contract. In agency CM the owner holds them and in at-risk CM the construction manager holds them.

* Charts provided by Project Delivery Systems by Robert W. Dorsey