Founded as general contractors in 1966, LEWIS CONTRACTORS has flourished over the years by enjoying the greatest compliment its clients could bestow: repeat business. By focusing on Metropolitan Baltimore’s most venerable institutions—private schools, colleges, churches, and medical care facilities—we have developed a vast knowledge of building issues, a proven ability to stage and phase construction in and around occupied buildings and sites, and experience working with committees.

We draw upon our history and experience as we continue to embrace positive change in the construction industry. Starting in the late 1980s, we began to perform CM at Risk projects. Moving with industry developments, we compete for an increasing number of construction management contracts each year. CM-at-Risk projects now encompass approximately 80% of our workload. Through these experiences, we have developed a reputation as a proactive Construction Manager who thinks ahead.   Today, institutional and academic projects comprise approximately three quarters of our total work volume, with projects ranging in size from $50,000 to nearly $40 million. 

We have also embraced the industry-wide changes manifested in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification process.  As the US Green Building Council’s LEED program grew in prominence, Lewis Contractors constructed more and more projects featuring green building elements, such as recycled materials, geothermal wells, green roofs, and the like.  Today, we construct an increasing number of projects that seek to attain some level of LEED certification—ranging from LEED Certified to Silver to Platinum—or comply with Baltimore City Sustainability Requirements.  We have four LEED APs and one LEED Green Associate on staff, with additional employees training for the same.

Lewis Contractors has been affiliated with Richard D. Poole, LLC, a York, Pennsylvania based design/build firm, since 1999. In 2003, both Poole and Lewis became affiliated with Stewart & Tate, Inc., a York, Pennsylvania-based construction organization. Poole and Lewis became wholly owned subsidiaries of Stewart & Tate, Inc., in 2008. This relationship enhances Lewis’s depth of management, office support, and service offerings—particularly in sitework-related preconstruction services, including value-engineering and constructability reviews.

Backing Lewis’ management is a diverse staff of about 60—estimators, project managers, superintendents, carpenters and laborers—with a company-wide average tenure of 15 years. Such low employee turnover is due in large part to our training programs and interesting mix of work assignments, as well as Lewis’s safety program, health insurance, 401K and vacation benefits. Satisfied employees help attract quality subcontractors and material vendors. We enjoy our work—our clients benefit.

For more information please contact us:

Lewis Contractors
55 Gwynns Mill Court
Owings Mills, MD 21117
(410) 356-4200 phone
(410) 356-7732 fax
info@lewis-contractors.com

Members

www.aia.org		American Institute of Architects
		Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc.
		International Facility Management Association
		Building Congress & Exchange