A construction service provider dedicated to your best interests
Gundlach Champion Construction services evolved over 125+ years to help owners overcome construction challenges with innovative options. As a construction service provider, our team focuses on minimizing cost while maximizing value.
A project doesn’t succeed unless we all work together. Our construction process is based on a team approach, involving the owners, design team, and the GCI team throughout the decision-making process. From the office to the field, we are a united team, staying in constant communication. We conduct internal project kick-off meetings and monthly job reviews, as well as external weekly and monthly progress meetings with contractors and owners.
Safety is our #1 priority as your service provider. GCI is committed to providing a safe and healthy work environment for all employees, contractors, and visitors. We believe our employees are our most valuable resource, and all accidents and incidents are preventable. It’s only through the hard work of our safety team, project managers, and superintendents that we have received multiple AGC Michigan and National Safety Awards, demonstrating our dedication to safety.
We control major work packages by self-performing the work, ensuring the project stays on schedule and reducing the overall cost of hiring multiple contractors. Because GCI has been a contractor in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan since 1898, we have long-established relationships with subcontractors for various services, which we draw on when needed. Through this trusted resource, we can provide consistent and efficient subcontractor management. GCI has signatory relationships with various trade organizations, such as ironworkers, millwrights, operators, carpenters, masons, and laborers. This approach gives us the ability to provide a pool of local, professional, safety-conscious, and trained employees within each community we work in.
The construction delivery methods to meet the demands of your construction project
By offering clients a variety of delivery methods, including Construction Management, Design/Build, and General Contracting, GCI can tailor its services to meet the unique needs and schedule requirements of your project.
• Preconstruction
• Construction Management
• Design/Build
• General Contracting
• Building Maintenance
GCI provides construction services in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We would be pleased to discuss your construction project with you.
Gundlach Champion’s purpose is:
- To provide our customers and clients with the labor, quality products, technical expertise, processes, and services, to solve their business challenges, and to help develop their businesses.
- To be flexible and willing to pursue opportunities as they are presented to us so that we continually expand our products, services, and the geographic areas in which we operate.
- To operate a highly professional and ethical company in partnership with our suppliers, customers, and clients, and be responsive, supportive, reliable, caring, and creative in our approach.
- To create such value for our customers and clients that we become indispensable to them.
- To provide our employees a dynamic, fun, stable, and team-oriented work environment where there are opportunities to grow, develop, advance personally and professionally.
- To be good stewards of the environment and deeply involved as individuals and as a company in worthwhile causes in our communities.
Message from President
Today’s economy places large burdens on our customers, whether public or private. They are expected to provide services or products to the end-user for less cost, while experiencing ever increasing costs for labor and materials. Our mission is to help our customers meet these challenges by providing the project management services required to minimize cost and maximize gain. We have tailored our services to meet this goal.
For the past several years we have experienced increased negotiated sales – most from repeat customers. This is evidence of our commitment to the principles of honesty, integrity, good business sense and, above all, dedication to employees. The future is bright. We have grown the company to one which works throughout the Midwest and offers all the services needed to plan, finance, design, and construct the facilities required by our customers.
Stan Kaczmarek, President
Gundlach Champion, Inc.