• New Division Has Solid Footing

    The formation of Kitchen Mart Commercial (KMC) is the story of a 43-year-old company, Kitchen Mart Inc., that built a great relationship with a trusted partner. It’s also a story of the owner of a commercial tile and stone company, Ryan Wagner (AGS Tile & Stone, or AGS) who was looking to be a part of something larger.   read more...

  • Choice Career of Four Generations

    Plastering must be in the Colmenero family’s DNA—four generations have labored in the industry. “My grandfather worked for the union as a hod carrier, also known as a plaster tender, carrying heavy loads of mud to the plasterers,” says Augustine “Augie” Colmenero Jr., President of A. Colmenero Plastering, Inc. “At an early age, my brothers and I would go to a job site with my grandfather and help him load the hod and clean up. We were too little to carry it for him, of course, as hods can hold up to 200 pounds of mud.”   read more...

  • A Technical Contractor with Deep Green Goals

    DPR Construction (DPR) is a self-performing commercial contractor and construction manager. Construction veterans Doug Woods, Peter Nosler and Ron Davidowski founded the company as a negotiating general contractor with a focus on doing things right the first time and taking care of customers.   read more...

  • Nimble with Know-How

    Darren Williams, PE, President and CEO of TECHNICON Engineering Services, Inc. (TECHNICON) in Fresno, has always been fascinated with how things are built. His first engineering feat was with an old lawnmower his parents gave him to “play” with when he was just eight. As they expected, Darren took it apart and easily put it back together. By the age of 10, his curiosity had turned to how cabins, roads and septic systems are built.   read more...

  • Going Up!

    Here are a couple of statistics you might not think about every day: there are 900,000 elevators in service in the United States, and these elevators make 18 billion passenger trips each year. That means each passenger averages four trips per day, 250 days per year. That’s a lot of elevator rides. While most people don’t give it a second thought when the elevator doors open up, it’s something that’s on Patrick McBride’s mind every single day. He’s the President of Servset Elevator Inc. (Servset) in Sacramento, a specialty contractor providing installation of modular elevators, elevator environmental services and elevator interiors and sill refurbishing.   read more...

  • From Humble Beginnings to Industry Leader

    When the Matson brothers began Matson Alarm Company, Inc. in 1974, they did it all—sales, design, installation and service—from the confines of their parents’ two-car garage in Fresno, California.   read more...

  • Sunny Days

    When JP Electric & Solar launched in 1978 as JP Electric, the husband-and-wife team of Jesse and Ann Pacheco focused on providing electrical services for new commercial construction. In the past decade, though, they have become increasingly invested in the solar industry.   read more...

  • Follow the Market

    Legendary hockey player Wayne Gretsky once said the key to success in hockey was to follow the puck. That’s the lesson Tony Moayed, CEO of Tricorp Group, Inc., has taken to heart in business, building his company’s success as a general contractor and pre-construction resource for private and public construction projects in California.   read more...

  • Behind the Glass

    Commercial glazing is an art, a specialty construction trade that requires skill, considerable strength and an eye for detail.

    It’s a combination of attributes that defines the bright, hardworking staff at Itzko Glass & Metal, Inc. (IGM), a full-service design-build commercial glazing contractor based in the city of West Sacramento, California.   read more...

  • A Strong Foundation

    Back in 1997, recent high school graduate Jesse Emmett could be found every workday on a paving machine, seated right next to his dad, Ronnie. The two would drive two hours each morning from their home in Fresno, California, to work sites across Modesto. From Ronnie, Jesse learned the ins and outs of laying asphalt on roads, bridges and parking lots.   read more...

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