Certified Commercial General Contractor

Suncoast is a State Certified General Contractor and has been one of the premier Commercial Construction Contractors in the Tampa Bay area since 1990. As a Commercial Contractor, in the early years our emphasis was on St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Pinellas Park, Tierra Verde, Gulf Beaches, St. Pete Beach, Madeira Beach and occasionally Tampa, however, that did not last long and we have had many successful projects all over Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco, Manatee and Sarasota Counties and as far away as Jacksonville and Miami, including many Design / Build projects.

New Commercial Construction demands a fast and efficient schedule, often utilizing CPM Scheduling (Critical Path Method Scheduling) techniques. This level of construction requires a high level of coordination between the design team, material suppliers, subcontractors, construction activities, local municipalities and the Owner. As the General Contractor, we orchestrate the coordination between these entities.

Here are a few of our noted New Commercial Construction Projects

This project was to build the support structure for a 1,240 ton capacity scrap-metal shear, a machine that cuts steel coming out of a 3’ x 3’ x 30’ hopper like scissors cutting through paper. Due to the terrific impact forces, the shear rests on a 4’ thick foundation on 60 concrete piles driven 40’ into the earth. The support building houses a hydraulic unit with six pumps and an electrical array that covers a 16’ x 8' wall.

As a seasoned commercial builder, the construction of this relatively small employee building was not particularly difficult but there were challenges in tying this and the another existing building into the sanitary system, eliminating the existing septic system.  The challenge was that the sanitary system was several blocks away and we needed to keep the yard in full operation throughout construction. Suncoast provided all of the design services as well as the construction.

Suncoast handled this Design / Build project from the initial stages, starting with the design phase and working with the planning staff, correcting rezoning issues through City of St Petersburg, achieving an approval over some of the staff's unfair recommendations at the City Council hearing, through construction and final approvals.