The Builder of Choice for Major Manufacturers

When the major steel building manufacturers across North America sell a building to an industrial or commercial client and need to get it erected at the jobsite, the first call they make is to Abbotsford, B.C.’s Double Black Construction. Companies like U-Build Buildings (read their testimonials about our work), Olympia Steel Buildings, Robertson Building Systems and Summit Steel Buildings understand they can count on the company to be the most suitable design-builder responsible for building the foundation, installing the building and finishing the engineering to exact manufacturer specification.

The strength in these building partnerships, why any company that needs commercial construction should work with Double Black Construction, relies on a project delivery model based on trustworthy design-build agreements.

When entering a building agreement for a commercial or industrial project, companies can choose from a variety of contractual methods, some dealing directly with a builder while others involve construction management companies, consultants, sub-contractors or other third parties that complicate the process. The more organizations involved, the more complicated the lines of communication become, and the easier it is for people to avoid accountability and lay blame onto others on the rare occasion when things go awry.

Dealing solely with the client or manufacturer is one of the reasons why Frank Melo and John Lohan and the team at Double Black Construction maintain a good reputation.

Double Black Construction is your complete design-build organization, providing all the talent required to complete a building project from start to finish. Once the pre-engineered steel components and other materials are delivered to the project site right from the manufacturer, we complete the job ourselves without relying on sub-contractors or others.

If you want to know how progress is going, you can speak directly with the skilled trades professionals doing the work – not a project manager sitting at a desk a couple of hundred miles away. No middlemen, no management consultants or unknown third parties bidding at the lowest price to complete the work. Melo, Lohan and the rest of the team perform the quality work of the manufacturer and accept responsibility for finishing the construction exactly. They do all aspects of each project, from preparing design and construction documents to assigning roles according to the timeline and inspecting each detail.

Through his experience working directly with the companies that make every building component, Lohan understands the requirements and performance specifications to a precise degree. In turn, clients have one point-of-contact for any questions they may have and can get an immediate reply from the leader at the jobsite. Lohan has direct responsibility for getting the job done right once all the materials are shipped to the site and accepts all risk and responsible for a successful project completion. With large-scale complex building projects, it’s essential to keep accountabilities simple to ensure a smooth project can be fast-tracked when necessary.

Frank Melo has a construction civil engineering technology and business background with over 25 years of experience as a business owner and contractor. He was born and educated in London, Ontario and now divides his time between projects primarily in Ontario and British Columbia. He can be contacted at Double Black Construction at (778) 951-4766 or by email at frank@doubleblackconstruction.com or through LinkedIn.