New Construction

As a State Certified General Contractor, Suncoast has had many successful Commercial and Residential New Construction projects in the Tampa Bay area, including recent projects in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater, Largo, Pinellas Park, Tierra Verde, Gulf Beaches, St. Pete Beach and Madeira Beach with some incorporating our Design / Build services, and we cover all of Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Manatee and Sarasota Counties.

New Construction is generally the easiest to build, as long as the proper work has been performed upfront. It is important to have a good design group, consisting of architects, engineers and possibly a landscape architect and other consulting services, as it is usually in the permitting process that a new construction project will be delayed. It is also important to understand the subsurface conditions of the site prior to starting the design process.

Here are a few of our most recent New 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.