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About Ironridge

A builder, not a broker.

We started as a concrete crew and never lost the habit of doing the work ourselves. Twenty-seven years later, that is still what separates us from the firms that only manage paper.

Cast-in-place concrete structure on an Ironridge project

Our story

Built from the slab up

Ironridge Construction began in 1998 with two trucks, a form crew and a reputation for pouring flat floors on schedule. General contractors kept asking us to take on more scope, and eventually it made more sense to carry the whole job than to keep fixing other people’s sequencing.

That origin still shapes how we operate. We self-perform the concrete and rough carpentry on most of our work, which means the activities that control the critical path are staffed by employees, not by whoever a subcontractor could spare that week. When a schedule tightens, we add crews instead of sending a letter explaining the delay.

Today we deliver commercial, healthcare, industrial, education and civil projects across Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico, with a preconstruction group that prices work the way it actually gets built. Most of what we build each year comes from an owner we have already worked with.

  • 27+Years in business
  • 480Projects delivered
  • $2.4BPut in place
  • 96%Repeat clients

Milestones

Twenty-seven years, four states

We grew by taking on work we were ready for, one capability at a time. Nothing here happened by acquisition.

  1. 1998

    Two trucks and a form crew

    Founded in Denver as a concrete subcontractor working tenant improvements and small commercial pads.

  2. 2006

    First GC contract

    Moved into general contracting on a 40,000 square foot flex building and never subcontracted our concrete again.

  3. 2014

    Healthcare and civic work

    Built a dedicated healthcare group after our first occupied-hospital renovation, and added public works bidding.

  4. 2021

    Regional footprint

    Opened satellite operations in Cheyenne and Salt Lake City to support industrial clients across four states.

How we operate

Six commitments we hold ourselves to

  • Say the hard number early

    A budget that moves late is worse than a budget that hurts early. We price the job we actually see, including the risk nobody wants to name at the kickoff meeting.

  • Own the critical path

    Self-performing concrete and carpentry means the work that drives the schedule is staffed by people who answer to us, not to a subcontractor’s other job.

  • Write it down

    Assumptions, allowances, exclusions and decisions all get documented the day they are made. Nobody should be reconstructing intent from memory at closeout.

  • Protect the crew

    Safety planning is scheduled work with real hours attached. Crews that feel rushed make the mistakes that cost weeks.

  • Leave the site better

    Clean job sites, respectful neighbors, honest hours. Owners hear about how we behaved on their block long after the ribbon is cut.

  • Finish completely

    Punch lists get closed, documents get delivered and the 11-month walk gets scheduled without the owner having to chase us for it.

Leadership

The people accountable for your project

You will meet the people who will actually run your job at the interview, and they will still be on it at closeout.

Ray Delgado, President

Ray Delgado

President

Founded the company in 1998 after fifteen years running concrete crews across the Front Range.

Karen Nishimura, Chief Operating Officer

Karen Nishimura

Chief Operating Officer

Oversees field operations, preconstruction and the self-perform divisions across all four states.

Andre Whitlock, VP of Preconstruction

Andre Whitlock

VP of Preconstruction

Leads estimating and target-value design. Twenty-two years of Mountain West trade pricing in his head.

Simone Estrada, Director of Safety

Simone Estrada

Director of Safety

Built our pre-task planning program and runs training for every field employee, every quarter.

Want to see whether we are the right fit?

Send us your program and schedule. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right builder for it, even when the answer is no.

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