About

Gamma Construction Company was founded in 1985 by Frank Glass of Spaw-Glass Inc. of Houston. Gamma is a commercial general contractor headquartered in Houston, Texas. Gamma’s original scope of operations consisted primarily of tenant build-out, but the company quickly diversified to commercial buildings, including offices, retail, banks, and special-purpose buildings for oil companies. In 1987, Keith Williams (also of Spaw-Glass) joined the company as President. In his first year, the company’s revenues were $3 million. In 1995, Keith purchased the company from the shareholders of Gamma. Today, after nearly four decades of successful operations in over thirty different states, Gamma’s portfolio of projects encompasses schools, healthcare, restaurants, retail stores, auto dealerships, and many other categories of commercial construction with revenues exceeding $200 million.

Gamma’s home office, located just next to Houston’s Greenway Plaza, is in close proximity to the downtown business district as well as to Houston’s upscale Galleria retail shopping area. The two-story, 15,000-square-foot building consists of offices for Gamma’s corporate executives, its Houston project management staff, and its financial and administrative personnel.

Gamma’s rapid growth in the early years of its inception was fueled by two significant client relationships. Furthermore, the experience gained with these two clients has facilitated Gamma’s further successful penetration into the specialized construction industry arenas of healthcare, schools, retail, and restaurants.

The first relationship was with The May Department Stores/Macy’s and the readily recognizable members of its chain. Gamma has built or renovated numerous retail stores for Foleys, Lord & Taylor, Robinson May, and other May Department Stores in Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, North Carolina, and Virginia. Other high-profile retail customers with whom Gamma has completed projects are Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus.

The second relationship was with Outback Steakhouse. Gamma built or remodeled in excess of 350 restaurants for Outback in over 30 states, including Hawaii, in which Gamma is licensed as a general contractor. We also provided construction management services for Outback in the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, and Aruba.

Gamma’s work has always been evenly divided between bid and negotiated projects. We believe that a competitive bid environment maintains our perspective in the ever-changing construction industry. Gamma’s normal contract size is in the $15 to $25 million range. However, our larger contracts which are typically for school districts or large healthcare or retail customers, have exceeded $170 million. Over the last several years, public school projects and healthcare  have become an increasingly large percentage of our backlog.

We pride ourselves on our flat corporate structure and our ability to quickly respond as requirements dictate. Our primary objectives are to accommodate our customers’ needs and to efficiently produce a high-quality product.