How we deliver

01 · Pre-Construction & Estimating

Start on solid ground

Conceptual budgets, detailed estimates, constructability and phasing review, long-lead procurement planning and bid packaging. We estimate in-house — the people who price the job are the people who will build it.

• Conceptual and schematic budgets, value engineering
• Scope-gap review of drawings and specifications
• Schedule development with long-lead items tracked from day one
• Subcontractor prequalification and bid leveling

02 · General Contracting

The delivery method doesn't change how we build

Hard bid, negotiated or design-build — the estimate comes from the same people, the same superintendent runs the job, and the same closeout process ends it. Design-bid-build is simply the route most public projects take.

We understand the administration that comes with public work — SBC procedures, certified payroll, owner-furnished equipment, phased turnover — and we price the risk honestly.

• Public work: UT, UTIA, State of Tennessee, PSCC, Knox County, City of Oak Ridge, Town of Farragut
• Federal: Tennessee Air National Guard, ORNL / ORISE
• 24 State of Tennessee and local public contracts in the last five years, $39.9M in all
• Bonded and insured for projects of any size — TN license unlimited

03 · Construction Management & Design-Build

One team, one point of accountability

When an owner wants a builder at the table from concept, we lead the design team, carry the budget and own the schedule. Wright's leadership brings decades of Construction Management, Design-Build and Design-Bid-Build experience on high-profile Knoxville projects — that experience sets the approach for every CM and design-build job we take on.

• Design-build with architect/engineer partners we've delivered with before
• CM-at-risk with guaranteed maximum price
• Open-book cost reporting with Jonas Premier job cost

04 · Self-Performed Work

Our own crews where it counts

Wright self-performs the work that keeps a phased job moving: temporary protection and dust, noise and infection controls; cut-and-patch; and quality control and punch-list completion. Doing that work ourselves lets us react to unforeseen conditions the same day and hold the quality bar without waiting on a sub.

Larger trade scopes go to specialty subcontractors we have worked with for years. We would rather have the right trade on the work than force it in-house.