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Halvorsen Build Co.
Lic. CCB 214408
Est. 2009
(888) 555-0142
Construction worker in a hard hat standing on the timber frame of a building under construction
Orchard Lane Residence / Framing / Day 84

A-100 / GENERAL CONTRACTING

We build it once.
We build it right.

Custom homes, additions and commercial build-outs across the Portland metro — priced from a real set of drawings, not a guess. You get a fixed-price contract before we break ground, a named project manager who answers his own phone, and a schedule we publish and update every Friday. If a change order comes up, you see the sub’s number and our markup on the same page.

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Years
17
Projects
340+
Crew
28 In-House
Bonded
$5M

A-201 / SERVICES

Capability Matrix

Five scopes, and the honest numbers behind each one. These are real ranges from jobs we closed in the last three years in Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties — not a marketing “starting at.” If your budget lands under a range, we’ll say so on the first call instead of taking a deposit and finding out later.

Typical price range, timeline, permitting and design-build availability by scope of work
Scope / Sheet Typical Range Typical Timeline Permits Handled Design-Build
S-01 Custom Homes Ground-up on your lot or ours. Structural, envelope and finish carpentry self-performed. $650,000 – $2.4M 10 – 16 months Yes — full
incl. land use		 Yes
S-02 Additions Second storeys, bump-outs, ADUs and garage conversions. You keep living there; we dust-wall it. $95,000 – $420,000 3 – 7 months Yes — full
incl. structural review		 Yes
S-03 Kitchen & Bath Full gut and reconfigure, including moving plumbing walls. Cabinet lead times quoted up front. $45,000 – $180,000 6 – 14 weeks Yes — trade
elec / plumb / mech		 Optional
S-04 Commercial Build-Out Shell-to-suite for offices, clinics, restaurants and retail. Night and weekend work available. $180,000 – $1.6M 4 – 9 months Yes — full
incl. fire & ADA		 Yes
S-05 Tenant Improvement Landlord-side and tenant-side TI, phased so the neighbouring suites stay open for business. $60,000 – $500,000 6 – 20 weeks Yes — full
incl. occupancy		 Optional

Note 1 — Ranges exclude land, site utilities beyond 60 ft and owner-supplied fixtures.

Rev. 03  /  Issued 2026

A-301 / SEQUENCE OF WORK

Phase Sequence

Most people who call us have been burned by a contractor who vanished between demo and drywall. Here is the whole run of work, with the durations we actually hold ourselves to. Every phase ends with a written sign-off before the next one starts, and no draw is released until you approve it.

Total duration
Varies by scope — see A-201

  1. P-01  /  1–2 Weeks

    Consult

    We walk the property, measure what exists, and give you a written budget band the same week. No charge, no pressure to sign.

  2. P-02  /  6–14 Weeks

    Design & Permits

    Our architect and engineer draw it, we price it line by line, and we carry the permit application through plan review ourselves.

  3. P-03  /  2–4 Weeks

    Pre-Construction

    Fixed-price contract signed, selections locked, long-lead items ordered, and the full schedule published to your owner portal.

  4. P-04  /  3–14 Months

    Build

    One project manager, one crew, dated site photos every Friday, and a swept site at the end of every working day.

  5. P-05  /  1–3 Weeks

    Punch & Handover

    You write the punch list, not us. We clear it, hand over lien releases, warranties and as-builts, and come back at month 11.

Schedule a site walk — usually within 5 business days (888) 555-0142

Call the Office Request Estimate

A-401 / PROJECT SHEETS

Three Completed Jobs, Documented

Every job we finish gets a closeout sheet: what it was, what it cost to build, how long it took and whether we hit the date we promised. Here are three from the last four years, printed the way we file them.

Contemporary stone-clad custom home with tall windows and a manicured front lawn
Sheet 01 / Custom Home

Orchard Lane Residence

Location
Fairview, OR
Scope
New build, design-build
Sq Ft
4,180
Duration
13 months
Delivery
3 weeks early

A sloping half-acre lot two other builders had passed on. We re-engineered the foundation as a stepped stem wall so the owners kept the view without importing 400 yards of fill, and we held the original contract price through a lumber spike by locking the framing package at contract signing. Cabinets were ordered in month four, not month ten — which is how the job came in ahead of schedule.

Renovated kitchen with a white marble island, woven bar stools and light wood flooring
Sheet 02 / Addition + Kitchen

Maple & 8th Rear Addition

Location
Portland, OR — Irvington
Scope
620 sf addition + full kitchen
Sq Ft
620 new / 1,940 touched
Duration
5 months
Delivery
On contract date

A 1912 four-square in a historic conservation district, with two kids and a home office inside the whole time. We built a sealed dust corridor, kept a working temporary kitchen in the dining room for eleven weeks, and matched the original exterior trim profiles on our own moulding knives so the review board approved on the first submission.

Finished open-plan office with rows of desks and linear ceiling lighting after a commercial build-out
Sheet 03 / Commercial Build-Out

Foundry Road Office Build-Out

Location
Gresham, OR
Scope
Shell-to-suite, two floors
Sq Ft
24,000
Duration
7 months
Delivery
6 weeks early

The tenant had a hard lease-start date and a landlord allowance that ran out at substantial completion. We phased the second floor first so their operations team could move in early, ran mechanical rough-in on second shift to stay ahead of the sprinkler contractor, and closed out with the fire marshal in a single inspection. Final cost landed 1.8% under contract.

A-501 / GENERAL NOTES

Standards We Contract To

These six aren’t a values statement — they are clauses in the agreement you sign. If we break one, you have something to point at.

  • STD-01

    Fixed-Price Contracts

    One number, signed before demolition, based on a complete drawing set and a locked selections schedule. No cost-plus, no open-ended allowances hiding in the back pages.

  • STD-02

    Weekly Owner Updates

    Every Friday by 4 p.m.: dated site photos, what got done, what’s next week, and any decision we need from you with a deadline on it. You never have to ask how it’s going.

  • STD-03

    Licensed Subs Only

    Every trade on your job carries a current CCB licence, workers’ comp and $2M liability, verified before they set foot on site. We keep the certificates on file and will hand you copies.

  • STD-04

    Clean-Site Policy

    Swept floors, stacked material and a covered dumpster at the end of every shift. Interior work gets sealed dust barriers and negative-air machines — not a taped bedsheet in the doorway.

  • STD-05

    Change-Order Transparency

    Any change is written up before the work happens, with the subcontractor’s actual quote attached and our markup shown as a separate line. Nothing gets built until you sign it.

  • STD-06

    2-Year Workmanship Warranty

    Two full years on our labour, ten on the structure, plus a scheduled walk-through at month eleven to catch seasonal settling before your first anniversary passes.

340+
Projects delivered since 2009
94%
Closed on or ahead of contract date
$5M
Single-project bonding capacity
0
Subcontractor liens filed against an owner

Estimating desk open Mon–Fri 7:00–17:00  /  Sat 8:00–12:00

(888) 555-0142 Request Estimate

A-601 / OWNER REFERENCES

What Owners Put In Writing

“We’d already lost four months and about $30,000 to a builder who stopped answering emails after the foundation went in. Halvorsen took over a half-finished job, which nobody wants to do, priced the remaining work in eleven days, and held that number to the dollar. The Friday photo emails were the thing that actually let me sleep — I was working out of state for most of the build and never once had to guess what was happening on my own house.”

Dana R. Custom home / 3,400 sf / Troutdale, OR / Completed 2025

“Our lease started 1 March whether the suite was ready or not, and the shell had no mechanical above the second floor. Their PM ran a two-shift schedule for six weeks without ever asking us for a schedule extension, and every change order came with the electrician’s own quote stapled to it — I’ve never had a contractor show me their markup before. We opened six weeks early and 1.8% under budget.”

Marcus Ibeh Commercial build-out / 24,000 sf / Gresham, OR / Completed 2024

A-701 / SUBMITTAL

Request An Estimate

Send us what you know — even if that’s just “we want to open up the back of the house and we think it’s about $200K.” An estimator reads every submission personally and replies within one business day with either a budget band and a site-walk time, or an honest note that your scope isn’t a fit for us and who we’d call instead.

Telephone
(888) 555-0142
Email
[email protected]
Shop & Office
1140 Foundry Road, Suite 200
Fairview, OR 97024
Hours
Mon–Fri 7:00–17:00
Sat 8:00–12:00  /  Sun closed
Licence
CCB 214408 (OR)  /  HALVOB*772QK (WA)
Service Area
Portland metro — 40 mi radius

Form E-01 / Estimate Request

Rev. 03

No obligation. We reply within one business day. We never sell or share your details.