SERVING OTHERS SINCE 2007. PIONEERING IDEAS AND
RAISING
THE BAR.
Truebeck Construction was founded with a gamechanging spirit and an ambitious vision: disrupt the traditional and ordinary, and rigorously raise the bar to do our best work. Period. We’re driven by the belief that we can improve construction practices and elevate standards, while creating remarkable places in our community.
Many things are built. Few things are crafted smart and well. We have an entrepreneurial nature – thinking big, but not acting big – and perform as true builders with boots on the ground. We absolutely love construction, and you’ll see that in everything we do. It’s never business as usual on our jobsites or in the office; in fact, it’s more like a championship game.
We strive for greatness in the details, the dirty work, and in the victory of helping you achieve your vision.
OFFICE LOCATIONS
Portland Sacramento
San Francisco
San Mateo
MARKET SECTORS
Adaptive Reuse
Advanced Technology
Affordable Housing
Commercial
K-12 Education
Higher Education
Healthcare
Interiors
Life Sciences
Mass Timber
Mission Critical
Mixed-use
Multi-family
ABOUT US
Truebeck Construction is an industry-leading full-service general contractor specializing in technical building, complex projects, and interiors. Clients come to us when they have ambitious goals, and when they want certainty, predictable costs, and high-performance buildings. We build it right the first time and deliver the best value.
A FULL-SERVICE GC
Truebeck’s work environment foregoes department silos, and instead encourages deep collaboration—with disciplines sitting side-byside. Working in nimble, autonomous teams, each project squad develops their own strategies and efficiencies to achieve the best outcome for your vision. When you work with Truebeck, you engage all our integrated disciplines.
Construction Technology + Innovation
Design-Build
Integrated Project Delivery
MEP Expertise
Preconstruction
Progressive Delivery Methods
Quality Assurance/Quality Control
Safety Management
Friends of the Children
Taking Ownership PDX
Oregon Food Bank
Girls Build
Constructing Hope
ANNUAL AVERAGE REVENUE
$1 billion
500 COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Self-Perform Work EMPLOYEES
These are the values that guide our people and business. They’re what we look for in every employee across the company. Recognizing that our success is founded upon these beliefs, they embody our culture and promise to our employees and business partners. This is our DNA.
WE WIN AS A TEAM AND HIGH-FIVE A LOT.
DON’T DO WHAT’S EASY. DO WHAT’S RIGHT. AND HUSTLE.
PROJECT SUCCESS. EVERY TIME. NO EXCUSES.
IF IT’S NOT THE BEST, IT SIMPLY WON’T DO.
COURAGEOUSLY, MAKE IDEAS REALITY. BUSINESS AND LIFE ARE ALL ABOUT PEOPLE.
PROJECT AWARDS
AIA Merit Award for Energy and Sustainability
DBIA, Regional Award for Educational Category
Go Beyond Award for a New Construction Project
USGBC-Northern California, Green Building Super Hero
UC Davis Winery, Brewery & Food Science Bldg, Davis, CA (8)
Coworky Award for Best Space Design
ENR Best Project
Bespoke Co-working, San Francisco, CA (4)
DJC Oregon Top Projects, 1st Place, Industrial, Manufacturing, or Logistics
The Factor Building, Portland, OR
ENR Best Project
Twitter Headquarters/1Tenth, San Francisco, CA (9, 10)
ENR Best Project
Gilead Wellbeing Center, Foster City, CA
ENR Best Project
SmartLabs North Tower Lab & Office, So. San Francisco, CA
ENR Best Project
Mozilla Headquarters, Mountain View, CA (3)
ENR Best Project IIDA Award
GitHub Headquarters, San Francisco, CA (2)
ENR, Best Project, California Merit Award
SF-Marin Food Bank, San Francisco, CA
ENR California, Best Project, Excellence in Sustainability County of San Mateo, County Office Building (COB3), Redwood City, CA
ENR California, Best Project, Government/ Public Building County of San Mateo, County Office Building (COB3), Redwood City, CA
SAFETY AWARDS
President’s Safety Award
Construction Employers’ Association (2016–Present)
CA Voluntary Protection Program (Cal/VPP) Designation
Cal/OSHA (2016–Present)
Excellence in Safety
Construction Employers’ Association (2007–Present)
1st Place, National Construction Safety Excellence Award AGC (2013)
ENR California, Best Project, Interior/ Tenant Improvement Arc Institute, Palo Alto, CA
IIDA Design Excellence Award, Best in Education TEL HI Childcare Center, San Francisco, CA
Interior Design Magazine, Best Tech Office of the Year, Largest San Francisco Construction Project Uber Headquarters, Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA (1)
Metal Construction Association, Best Overall, Best Solar, and Best Custom project Thirty75 Tech Office Development, Santa Clara, CA
NAIOP Best of the Bay Award
Tribune Tower, Oakland, CA
Real Estate Deal of the Year Uptown Station, Oakland, CA
Silicon Valley Business Journal Structures Awards, Milestone Project of the Year Apple Park, Cupertino, CA (5, 6)
Silicon Valley Business Journal Structures Awards, Project of the Year
Stanford Research Park at 3223 Hanover, Palo Alto, CA (7)
Silicon Valley Business Journal Structures Awards, Honoree for Office Project, Medium Thirty75 Tech Office Development, Santa Clara, CA
Silicon Valley Business Journal Structures Awards, Public/Civic Project County of San Mateo, County Office Building (COB3), Redwood City, CA
Silicon Valley Business Journal Structures Awards, Honoree for Interiors, Small Arc Institute, Palo Alto, CA
NOTABLE COMPANY AWARDS
Best Places to Work
San Francisco Business Times (2013–2014, 2017-2024) Top 100 Bay Area Corporate Philanthropist San Francisco Business Times (2017–2024)
Willamette Stone
Arete Creative Office Development
PORTLAND, OR
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Replacing an existing 118-year-old single-family residence, this new mixed-use building project is among the new modern buildings to grace the heart of Portland’s North Williams corridor. With a modern and sustainable design, the Beech Street project stands out as a symbol of Portland’s progressive and growing economy.
The building consists of a design-build MEPF system, metal panel and storefront facade, roof deck, and open creative office space floors. As a mass timber and concrete structure, the development of the Arete project is a part of the growing trend that is using timber for larger projects. As one of the nation’s leading cities in environmental consciousness, the mass timber structure of the Arete project helps establish Portland as a city that embraces sustainable building.
SIZE
20,381sf
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Fieldwork Design and Architecture
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Mass timber
Urban Development + Partners
550 SE MLK Mixed-use Residential
PORTLAND, OR
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Situated in the Central Eastside among a growing cluster of creative and professional services and high-tech businesses, this new seven-story mixeduse residential building includes 132 apartments, retail spaces, and a 68-stall parking garage with semiautomated parking stackers. The basement includes mechanical spaces and residential amenities such as bike parking and a fitness center. The ground floor consists of building services, residential lobby, parking garage, amenity spaces, and shell space for future commercial and retail use. The building includes a fully-automatic sprinkler system with fire detection as well as a vegetated roof system.
SIZE
108,557sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$30 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT
GBD Architects
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Lean; Design-build MEP
Trammell Crow/High Street Residential
Brooklyn Multi-Family Housing
PORTLAND, OR
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This five-story, 110,063sf multi-family apartment building with ground-floor amenities and support spaces includes co-working spaces, speakeasy lounge, creative maker space, fitness center, pet washing stations, bike rooms, and an outdoor space complete with BBQ area. The structured parking area includes 60 car stackers.
SIZE
110,063sf
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Works Progress Architecture
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build MEP
Urban Development + Partners
Ellen Browning Building — Co-housing Development
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
PORTLAND, OR SIZE
Located in the Southeast Division of Portland, the EBS Building is a four-story mixed-use project that provides apartments to meet the needs of those previously aging in place. The first floor includes a community space with areas for retail and restaurants, and underneath is room for below grade parking.
Above, there are apartments with high-end interiors and an extensive private patio with green space. Additional amenities include a wine cellar and pool.
The building itself uses cross-laminated timber in the structure as well as post-tension concrete for added support. The facade of the building integrates terracotta and green spaces to create a unique natural feel to the exterior of the building. Operating within tight lot lines in the congested downtown environment, Truebeck delivers this urban development using a design-build MEP approach.
46,656sf
PROJECT ARCHITECT Hacker Architects
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build MEP; Cross-laminated Timber
Catholic Charities of Oregon
Chiles House
PORTLAND, OR
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Located on the campus of Catholic Charities’ Clark Family Center in SE Portland, Chiles House will fill a critical need with highly affordable housing for those who need it most. Guided by trauma-informed design principles to balance opportunities for socialization –indoors and out – while ensuring privacy and security, the 17,500sf building provides 27 housing units and two ground floor retail spaces.
Utilizing a design-build MEP delivery, Chiles House offers a lighter environmental footprint afforded by the cost-effective cross-laminated timber (CLT) structure. Consisting of five stories––four full floors and a tuckunder basement that takes advantage of the natural north-to-south slope of the site––the unit types include 18 studios, seven (7) one-bedrooms, and two (2) twobedrooms. In addition, the building has communal amenity spaces such as laundry, storage, sanitization room, community room, and an elevator. There is also a grand gathering space in the interior shared courtyard.
SIZE
17,500sf
PROJECT ARCHITECT
All Hands Architecture
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build MEP; CLT structure
4G Clinical
Broadway Tower Office Tenant Improvement
PORTLAND, OR
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The design-build MEPF tenant improvement office build-out on the 17th floor of the newly constructed Broadway Tower in downtown Portland consists of open offices, conference rooms, private offices, and a cantina with informal meeting. Additional scope includes glazing in all rooms, millwork in the cantina, and wood wall paneling. Considerable value engineering efforts were executed by the team in order to successfully meet the tight budget constraints while maintaining the overall aesthetic.
SIZE 3,245sf
PROJECT ARCHITECT
GBD Architects
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build MEPF
Libertas Companies
The Factor Building
PORTLAND, OR
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Complete interior and exterior renovation of two existing buildings adjacent to the Eastside Innovation Quadrant. The structures will be connected by openings between the buildings as well as a vertical circulation system and new shared building amenities. The project includes shelled tenant improvement, seismic upgrades, new design-build MEP systems throughout, upgraded windows, roofing, elevator, custom stairs, landscaping, site utilities, and building services.
SIZE
53,559sf
PROJECT ARCHITECT
SUM Design Studio + Architecture
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build MEP; Seismic upgrades
C&J Property Development
Timberview VIII Mixed-Use Development
PORTLAND, OR
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Located on the corner of NE Glisan Street and NE 99th Avenue, TimberView is an innovative eightstory, 105 unit, mixed-use, multi-family development devoted to affordable housing apartments for those who need it most. The mass timber structural elements of the project include glulam columns/ beams and cross-laminated timber (CLT) floor/ceiling panels and are supplemented by steel brace frames. The building includes an eighth-floor community room and outdoor deck for residents, as well ground floor commercial space dedicated to restaurant incubator space and a food hall. The project will be the tallest mass timber affordable housing development in Portland, and tallest in the area it’s being built. It building features radiant flooring, will have high-performance windows, have all-electric systems and be solar ready. The project is on track to meet LEED Platinum standards.
SIZE
54,280sf
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Access Architecture
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Mass timber; Cross-laminated Timber (CLT); Design-build MEP; Targeting LEED Platinum; All electric
Truebeck Construction
Creative Office Tenant Improvement
PORTLAND, OR
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This tenant build-out, within the Arete building that Truebeck built the core and shell, consisted of open creative office space, collaborative spaces, conference rooms, phone booths, kitchenettes and exposed wood ceilings in most spaces to show off the mass timber structure.
SIZE
5,000sf
PROJECT ARCHITECT
GBD Architects, Inc.
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Mass timber
General Services Administration (GSA)
911 Federal Building
PORTLAND, OR
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Built in 1953, the eight-story steel-framed structure is home to the GSA, U.S. Congress, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Energy, among other national security entities. This major design-build transformation within a fully occupied and functional federal office building includes major seismic and non-seismic structural systems upgrades to ensure the facility’s long-term operational status. The NOAA tenant improvement build-out renovates a significant portion of the 2nd floor’s overall space to meet their new Fisheries Western Region headquarters’ requirements, in an initiative to relocate their office and functions into the Federal Building. This project also involves office relocation and build-out for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Earl Blumenauer.
SIZE
312,447sf
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Soderstrom Architects
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build; Government agency
IBEW Local 48
Union Hall Remodel
PORTLAND, OR
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This project for the International Brotherhood of Iron Workers updated the interiors of the building and enclosed an existing terrace. Scope includes a new dais in the meeting hall, extensive A/V work, a video display wall, restrooms, millwork, concrete slab replacement, acoustical ceiling tile replacement, copper metal panel decorative walls, new flooring and paint throughout.
SIZE
17,500sf
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Lenity Architecture
Confidential Global Financial Services Client
PORTLAND, OR
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This office tenant improvement includes the sixthfloor build-out within a 17-story high-rise, mixeduse apartment and office building at 5 MLK in the newly developed Burnside Bridgehead area. The renovation includes high-end interior finishes and A/V packages that celebrate creativity and hard work and complement the dynamic and focused work style of the building and surrounding neighborhood.
SIZE
2,532sf
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Vocon Partners
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Occupied building
Urban Development + Partners
Hotel Grand Stark
PORTLAND, OR
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This four-story brick masonry building built in 1908 originally served as a hotel, then a furniture warehouse. Though the rooms on the upper floors were shuttered in the 1970s, they remain intact. UD+P and Beam Development jointly acquired the building for adaptive reuse. We renovated the building and restored it to its original hotel use. Key components of the renovation include the restoration of the historic character of the exterior, modernization of outdated systems, and renovation of the upper floors into new hotel rooms. Hotel Grand Stark features 57 rooms, a ground-floor restaurant, and lobby.
SIZE
Confidential per Client
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Works Progress Architecture
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Hotel; Adaptive Reuse
Cowlitz Indian Tribe
Tobacco Retail Outlet
RIDGEFIELD, WA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This new 4,756sf tobacco outlet center for the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and Language Conservancy consists of a wood-framed structure that includes a warehouse, retail shop, offices, breakroom, and restroom.
SIZE 4,756sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$4.7 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT
KMB Architects
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Self-perform concrete, wood framing, air barrier, roof accessories, interior accessories, shelving, wall protection, and door frames and hardware.
STACK Infrastructure
Operations Center
HILLSBORO, OR
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This tenant improvement included a flexible conversion of an existing training room and open office, to a secured mission critical command center. New access control systems were installed with UPS-backed workstations, and acoustically isolated private offices. A large format display wall was also installed for monitoring the critical building systems.
SIZE
2,400sf
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Bassetti Architects
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Flexible space conversion; Occupied facility
ADDITIONAL PROJECTS
Additional experience in Oregon and Washington includes the following sample project list:
AARP, Broadway Tower Office Tenant Improvement PORTLAND, OR
4,400sf / Tenant improvement / Office space / Design-build MEP / Occupied building
Confidential Athletic Client, Clubhouse Tenant Improvement BEAVERTON, OR
20,000sf / Tenant improvement / Conference rooms
Confidential Athletic Client, Office Tenant Improvement BEAVERTON, OR Tenant improvement / Office Space / Feature walls
Confidential Athletic Client, Office Tenant Improvement PORTLAND, OR Tenant improvement / Press Room / Branding walls
Confidential Financial Planning & Investment
Client VANCOUVER, WA Tenant improvement
Confidential Client, Gaming Office Tenant Improvement PORTLAND, OR
10,000sf / Tenant improvement / Two-story custom office space / Conference rooms / IDF build-out
Evergreen School District, Security Vestibule Upgrades VANCOUVER, WA
Tenant improvement / Six Locations / Occupied building / Classroom / K-12 / Vestibule installation / Security upgrades / Access controls
Fisher Phillips, U.S. Bancorp Tower Office Tenant Improvement PORTLAND, OR
7,600sf / Tenant improvement / Office space on the 40th floor / Conference rooms / Break room / Occupied building
Libertas, 315 SE 7th Street Core & Shell Improvements PORTLAND, OR Tenant improvement / Seismic upgrade / New exterior windows and door / Design-build MEPF
Libertas, Library Building Tenant Improvement
PORTLAND, OR
5,000sf / Tenant improvement / Historic building / Office space / Design-build MEP
Libertas, Pan’s Mushroom Jerky PORTLAND, OR Tenant improvement / Core & Shell Upgrades
Liquid Wire, Lab Tenant Improvement
PORTLAND, OR
8,300sf / Tenant improvement / Lab space / MEP upgrades
Milliman Bank, Broadway Tower Tenant Improvement PORTLAND, OR
2,000sf / Tenant improvement / Occupied Building
STACK Infrastructure, Clean Room Tenant Improvement HILLSBORO, OR
30,263sf / Tenant improvement / Secured clean room door between two operational data halls / Security hardware and fire alarm modifications
STACK Infrastructure, Unisex Restroom Addition HILLSBORO, OR Tenant improvement / Occupied space
Terrace Tower Group, Angeli Law Office Tenant Improvement PORTLAND, OR
5,400sf / Tenant improvement / Office space / Occupied building / Tight, congested site
University of Portland, Waldschmidt Hall Upgrades PORTLAND, OR Tenant improvement / Office Space / Reception
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