WildhorseConstruction & ConcreteCall Heath (406) 885-6414
Commercial

Commercial general contracting

Wildhorse Construction & Concrete builds commercial across the Flathead Valley: tenant improvements, restaurant and retail work, shops, pads and the foundations under them. And because Heath self-performs the concrete, the part of the job that decides the schedule is not somebody else's subcontract.

What we build

Tenant improvements
Interior fit outs on an occupied building or an empty shell. Demolition, framing, MEP coordination, polished or sealed floors, and a schedule that respects the fact somebody else is trading next door.
Restaurant and hospitality
Front of house that has to look right and back of house that has to pass inspection. Harborside in Lakeside is the one people know.
Shops, warehouses and pads
Slab on grade, thickened edges, dock pours and aprons wide enough to turn a truck on. Steel building foundations set to the fabricator's anchor drawings, not to the nearest inch.
Foundations and structural concrete
Footings, formed stem walls, grade beams, frost walls and pile caps. Rebar to the drawings, inspected before anybody pours.
Site work and utilities trenching
Cut, fill, base in lifts, compaction tested where the job warrants it, and drainage that moves water away from the building rather than into it.

Why a smaller GC, on a commercial job

The concrete is not subbed out
Most GCs hire the concrete. He pours it. That is one fewer company between you and the part of the building everything else sits on, and one fewer person to blame when a date moves.
One number, start to finish
The man who priced it is the man on site. You are not routed through a project coordinator who was not at the walk.
Paper that keeps up with the job
Submittals, RFIs, certified payroll where the work is public, pay applications and closeout. Commercial work is mostly sequencing and paper, and the paper is where small contractors lose commercial jobs.
He will tell you no
If a schedule cannot be built, you will hear it at the estimate rather than in month three.
Commercial work

Some of it

A low waterfront restaurant building with board-formed concrete walls, tall windows facing the lake, and a wide broom-finished concrete terrace.Finished

Harborside

A waterfront restaurant in Lakeside that half the valley has eaten at. Finished, open, and the kind of job where the concrete has to be right the first time because there is nowhere to hide a bad pour on a terrace people sit on.

Lakeside
A commercial concrete slab being poured from a pump boom, three workers screeding wet concrete across a rebar mat at first light.On the go

Commercial slab pour

A commercial pad going in: rebar mat tied, pump set, and a crew screeding it flat before the sun gets on it.

Flathead Valley
Formed and poured concrete foundation walls with snap ties and rebar on an excavated lot, plywood forms still standing on one side.On the go

Foundations and footings

Forms up one side, stripped walls the other. The part nobody photographs when it is done and everything above it sits on.

Flathead Valley
A commercial interior under construction, polished concrete floor half finished, metal stud partitions framed, exposed ductwork above.On the go

Commercial tenant improvement

An interior fit out with the floor half polished and the partitions going up. Commercial work is mostly sequencing, and sequencing is what a GC is for.

Kalispell
A completed steel-framed commercial shop building with roll-up doors and a fresh wide concrete apron.Finished

Shop building and apron

Steel building up, doors hung, and an apron wide enough to turn a truck on without dropping a wheel off the edge.

Flathead Valley
A tracked excavator cutting a building pad, gravel base being spread and compacted, grade stakes and string lines in the foreground.On the go

Excavation and site prep

Cutting a pad and building the base back up in lifts. Get this wrong and everything poured on top of it fails the same way.

Flathead Valley

Where we work

Next step

Walk it with Heath

Send the drawings, or the sketch on the back of something, and he will walk it and price it.

Kalispell, MT 59901