A red tower crane beside a four-level steel frame topped out with a white beam and an evergreen tree

Commercial general contractor, Milwaukee

Built in the open.

Offices, clinics, schools and light industrial across Southeast Wisconsin. Every owner sees schedule, weather and budget live.

Request a bid Open the live tracker

Level 1
One number, early.
Preconstruction prices your building while the design is still cheap to change. You get an open-book estimate, not a guess.
Level 2
One superintendent, start to finish.
The person who fences your site is the person who hands you the keys. Same cell number the whole way.
Level 3
Photos every Friday by 4 PM.
Your tracker updates daily. On Fridays you also get photos, a two-week look-ahead and anything that needs your decision.
Level 4
No surprise change orders.
Every change is priced, explained and approved by you before the work starts. It shows up in your tracker the same day.
Roof
Topped out.
On every job the last beam goes up painted white, signed by the crew, with an evergreen on top. Then we close it in.

Where Milwaukee works, heals, learns and makes things.

Four kinds of buildings, one way of running a job: a fixed team, an open book and a tracker you can check from your phone.

Five-story brick and glass office building with trees along the sidewalk

Core and shell, tenant fit-outs and owner-occupied headquarters, priced floor by floor.

Sample job: Harbor Lane Commons
Size: 88,000 SF, 5 stories
Delivery: CM at risk, 15 months

Medical office building with a limestone base, red brick and wide glass corners

Clinics, medical office buildings and work inside occupied hospitals, with an infection control plan on day one.

Sample job: Bay View Outpatient Center
Size: 46,500 SF, 3 stories
Delivery: Design-build, 13 months

School addition with a glass stair tower, red brick classrooms and sunshades

K-12 additions and university labs, phased around the school calendar so classes never stop.

Sample job: Riverbend Middle School addition
Size: 31,000 SF, 2 stories
Delivery: CM at risk, two summers

Large light industrial building with metal panel walls and tall overhead doors

Flex space, warehouses and light manufacturing, with slabs and docks built for real forklift traffic.

Sample job: Menomonee Valley Flex
Size: 120,000 SF, 1 story
Delivery: Design-build, 9 months

Sample projects for this demo. Names, sizes and schedules are illustrative.

Owner tracker, sample job

Know where your building stands. Every day.

Every Ironworks owner gets this tracker. Try it on a sample job: drag the red marker to any day, or press play to watch thirteen months go by.

Bay View Outpatient Center

Lakeshore Health Partners46,500 SF, 3 stories, steel frameDesign-build

Next two weeks on site

Sample project and demo numbers. The marker starts on today's real date; anything after today is shown as a forecast.

Every pick has a plan.

Steel days are loud, fast and planned to the minute. Our crews work from a written lift plan, start with a pre-task huddle and tie off above six feet. No exceptions, no heroes.

Morning pre-task planSigned by every crew before tools come out.
Written lift plansFor every critical pick, reviewed with the operator.
Stop-work authorityAnyone on site can stop a task. Nobody gets questioned for it.

Know the number before you buy the steel.

Preconstruction is where a building gets cheaper. We join while the drawings are still sketches and price every option before it is locked in.

Conceptual estimate and schedule within ten business days of a kickoff.
Delivery method advice for your board: design-build, CM at risk or hard bid.
Long-lead buyout plan for switchgear, steel, curtain wall and rooftop units.
Open-book bids from at least three trade partners per scope.

Superintendent in a yellow hard hat holding a clipboard beside steel shoring towers

Ballpark your building

Building type Office Healthcare Education Light industrial

Size40,000 SF

Finish level Core and shell Standard High-end

$9.8Mto$13.2M

Per square foot: $245 to $330
Typical build time: 10 to 12 months

Rough demo estimate. Assumes Southeast Wisconsin, 2026 pricing, building cost only (no land, design fees, furniture, equipment, utility fees or financing). Not a bid and not a number to budget from.

Get a real number

“I stopped asking for status meetings. I open the tracker with my coffee and I already know the answer.”

Marisol, facilities director, healthcare system Sample quote

“They priced three roof options before our board meeting. We picked one in ten minutes.”

Ken, business manager, school district Sample quote

Where we build

Within about an hour of our yard in the Menomonee Valley.

Milwaukee County
Waukesha County
Ozaukee County
Washington County
Racine County
Kenosha County

Bigger jobs in Madison and the Fox Valley by request.

Questions owners ask us.

Rather talk it through? Call Rosa at (414) 555-0172, weekdays 7 AM to 5 PM.

What size projects do you take on?

Most of our work runs between $2 million and $40 million (demo range): new buildings, additions and big renovations. Smaller tenant fit-outs are welcome when they are part of a bigger relationship.

Design-build, CM at risk or hard bid. Which one is right?

Design-build gives you one contract for design and construction and the fastest start. CM at risk brings us in early next to your architect, with a guaranteed maximum price before construction. Hard bid fits when the drawings are finished and price is the only question. We will tell you honestly which one fits your schedule and your board.

Do you charge for preconstruction?

Small conceptual budgets are free. Full preconstruction services are a flat fee agreed up front, and that fee is credited back if we build the project (demo policy).

Can you build while our building stays open?

Yes. Occupied work is planned in phases with your staff, with dust and noise controls, after-hours shutdowns and, in healthcare, an infection control risk assessment before any wall is opened.

Is the live tracker real on every job?

Yes. On a real job your project manager and superintendent update it daily, and you get a private login on day one. The one on this page is a sample with demo numbers.

How do you handle Wisconsin winters?

Winter is written into every schedule. We aim to dry the building in before December, carry heat and enclosure costs in the estimate and track every weather day in the open, so nobody is surprised in February.

Do you work with union trades?

We work with union and open-shop trade partners, based on the owner's labor requirements and the job.

Built in the open.

One number, early.

One superintendent, start to finish.

Photos every Friday by 4 PM.

No surprise change orders.

Topped out.

Where Milwaukee works, heals, learns and makes things.