What We Do
Our goal is to build beautiful and enduring custom homes. Over the years we have worked with incredible owners, architects, engineers and designers in bringing their vision to life.
We are motivated by projects with inspired design, unique challenges, and most importantly, great people to work with.
Building a home is often a multiyear endeavor, and a highly personal approach. Each project starts with establishing a relationship and understanding the vision of the client and design team. Our President, Colleen Conrado Ferguson, is personally involved throughout the life of each new project we take on. We believe this is the absolute foundation for success.
Engage with us as early as possible. We love sharing what we know and can often help with practical advice and steer you in the right direction. We can help introduce and assemble a design team for you, or work with your existing team.
Pre-Construction
Conrado was one of the first home builders to formalize the pre-construction process, and ours remains best in class.
Right off the bat we start with a high level of personal attention to support the owners and the design team, and build a deep understanding of your vision and how you will live in the home. We select the project team carefully to match the skills for the job and to ensure the relationship is a good fit.
“Measure twice, cut once” is an important principle for any project. This is a highly involved effort undertaken before even breaking ground. During this time, we work hand in hand with other key partners such as the project management team, design team, landscape architect, and structural and energy engineers. In advance of construction, we also begin the permitting and entitlement process with the local municipality, as well as coordinate with testing and utility companies.
The result of these extensive efforts is a highly credible and detailed budget and plan that is unique in the industry and incorporates granular details and input from stakeholders to give as accurate a level of costing and planning as possible.
Construction
The heart of the building process starts when we break ground. Our team, who has already been deeply involved in your preconstruction project, remains onboard throughout the process.
What sets us apart from other builders is our leadership, transparency in cost, focus on quality, and our collaborative approach to building.
Our senior leadership works hand-in-glove with owners and with the project management team to keep the project on track and on budget. We host weekly team meetings with the client, architects, designers and other major stakeholders to manage decision-making, track progress and ensure alignment.
Our project managers have decades of experience building quality homes and are experts in managing complex projects. Some have run their own construction businesses before coming to us. They focus on the details of what is coming in the weeks and months ahead, as well as what is happening on any given day.
Conrado has longstanding relationships with subcontractors, often decades-long. We select the professionals that represent the best value and expertise for the project, evaluating criteria such as cost and quality; general expertise, capabilities and fit for the project; and their historical performance and way of working.
Our billing process is one of the most transparent in the industry. Each invoice shows you all the data. Costs are categorized clearly and precisely; progress is tracked and reconciled against the original budget, with approved revisions clearly shown.
HomeCare
Conrado’s commitment to our clients continues even after the completion of a house.
With Conrado HomeCare, we offer a single point of contact to manage and monitor all future maintenance, service and repairs.
No one knows your home better inside and out than the professionals who built or renovated it. Typically, we can bring the same professional who did the original work on your home back to maintain, service, repair or remodel it.
HomeCare is customizable to your needs, covering routine and urgent services, as well as new undertakings. While HomeCare was conceived with existing Conrado clients in mind, we welcome inquiries from new clients.
We look at our involvement as a relay race, with no finish. We’ll stick around and keep supporting you.
—Colleen Conrado Ferguson