How we work
One accountable team from preconstruction through occupancy — not trade-by-trade improvisation.
General Contractors of Irving was built around a straightforward premise: the Las Colinas and Irving commercial market has enough external constraints — Blackland Prairie clay foundations, Oncor electrical service lead times, DFW Airport FAA airspace, City of Irving permit review, TxDOT driveway permits on SH-114 and I-635 — that owners need one team accountable for managing all of it. Not a general contractor who discovers the Oncor service lead time after construction starts. Not a project manager who treats geotechnical findings as someone else's problem after the slab is poured.
Our role is to translate scope into a practical delivery strategy that accounts for the specific constraints of the Irving market, then keep that strategy visible and actionable while the project moves through preconstruction, field execution, and turnover. We work with Las Colinas Fortune 500 corporate campus developers, Irving ISD and adjacent school districts, CHRISTUS Health and other medical office clients, and industrial users along the I-635 and SH-114 corridor who need a general contractor that understands their market rather than treating every project as a generic DFW commercial assignment.
That means procurement decisions are organized around the project's actual constraint profile — curtainwall lead times of 20-36 weeks for Las Colinas Class A office, HVAC equipment ordered before the DFW spring construction season competes for the same mechanical supply, Oncor service applications submitted during preconstruction rather than after mobilization. The result is stronger schedule control, cleaner trade handoffs, and a turnover experience that delivers the facility on the date that matters to the owner.
Irving is the 13th largest city in Texas and the fourth largest in the DFW metroplex. It is home to one of the most concentrated Fortune 500 corporate campus corridors in the country — ExxonMobil, Kimberly-Clark, Caterpillar, McKesson, Fluor, Vizient, CHRISTUS Health, NEC, and Citigroup all maintain significant Irving operations. DFW Airport, the third-busiest airport in the United States, shares Irving's western border and creates the FAA Part 77 airspace constraints that any general contractor working in Las Colinas needs to understand as standard operating context. The DART Orange Line connects Las Colinas Urban Center and Irving Convention Center to downtown Dallas, making transit-oriented development design review part of the planning process for projects near those stations. This is our market. We know it specifically, not generically.
Irving's Blackland Prairie clay geology demands a level of geotechnical discipline that distinguishes competent commercial construction from the kind that produces cracked slabs and differential settlement three years after occupancy. Drilled pier foundations extending 15-25 feet into Eagle Ford Shale or Austin Chalk are routine on Las Colinas commercial projects. Post-tensioned slabs with vapor barriers over moisture-stable subgrade, lime or cement stabilization of expansive clay before large slab-on-grade construction, and geotechnical field observation during drilled pier installation — these are not extraordinary measures. They are the standard of care for commercial construction on Blackland Prairie soils, and we manage them as standard project requirements on every qualifying Irving project.
Irving ISD's enrollment is approximately 70 percent Hispanic — the same demographic profile that characterizes many of the commercial markets we serve across DFW. School construction for Irving ISD and adjacent districts requires TEA design standards, Texas Education Code competitive bidding, and mid-August turnover discipline. Medical office construction for the CHRISTUS Health Irving MacArthur campus and the surrounding medical office market requires NFPA 99 clinical gas compliance, TDLR plan review and inspections, and DSHS licensing coordination. Industrial facility construction along the I-635 LBJ Freeway and SH-114 corridors requires pavement engineering for truck loads, TCEQ Construction General Permit compliance, and active-operation phasing that keeps tenants and production lines running while improvements are made. These are the construction types we deliver as core practice — not as special capability claims, but as the day-to-day work of a general contractor built for this specific market.