Happy New Year!
This 2020 year has delivered extreme challenges, which makes it even more exciting to think ahead to the new possibilities. Cheers to a much brighter 2021!
Helping Homeless Veterans
Our Punta Gorda team had the opportunity to spread a little holiday cheer and partner with the Charlotte County Homeless Coalition to purchase household items for veterans moving into newly refurbished housing. Project Assistant Susie Lampros shared, “I was so glad to be a part of this mission to help provide needed housing for our [...]
Kids in Construction
Take a glimpse at our future decision makers in construction! Looks to be merry and bright!
Groundbreaking for Ocoee City Hall
Wharton-Smith team members joined representatives from the City of Ocoee to celebrate the new Ocoee City Hall's groundbreaking. See more pictures. The project team is constructing a neoclassical three-story, 46,000-square-foot structural steel and brick building. The $17.2 million project will include site work and area development for a five-acre site in downtown Ocoee. It will [...]
IOA Corporate 5K
Your miles matter! 🏃♀️🏃♂️ Wharton-Smith’s Central Florida team has proudly committed to outrun hunger on behalf of the Insurance Office of America (IOA) Corporate 5K. This event is an excellent team-building experience for Central Florida’s corporate community that supports many local charities during these difficult times. Our dedication to our community and people 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘴 deep. [...]
Project Spotlight
At Wharton-Smith, we take pride in learning our client’s vision and transforming it into reality, which is exactly what we achieved for Seminole State College of Florida! Our team worked alongside HuntonBrady Architects to provide construction management services to Building “L” at the Sanford/Lake Mary campus in order to be completed by August 2019. Development [...]
ABC’s STEP Safety Management System
Wharton-Smith Construction Group announced that it has achieved Gold in Associated Builders and Contractor’s STEP Safety Management System. Founded in 1989, STEP participation demonstrates safety leadership and a cultural commitment to safety performance. STEP applicants measure their safety processes and policies on 25 key components through a detailed questionnaire with the goal of implementing or [...]
Topping Out at Site 113
Recently, Central Florida Commercial team members, subcontractors, vendors, and representatives from Orange County Public Schools celebrated the topping out of Site 113 High School. See more pictures. As more than 400 workers gathered in front of the school’s gymnasium, they received a t-shirt emblazoned with the project motto, “Essential workers never stop, tomorrow depends on [...]
Brevard Projects By The Numbers
Who says you can’t have some good numbers during a COVID crisis? Our Space Coast team has had one exceptional summer. From the time the COVID crisis began in March, our Brevard Commercial team, took on seven projects that needed to reach completion by July 31. That would have been a daunting task to undertake [...]
We’re Growing!
Pardon our dust – we’re growing! Over the last several months, the Wharton-Smith corporate office in Sanford, FL has been in the process of expanding. As we begin to wrap up construction on our new addition, we want to reflect and appreciate just how far we’ve developed as a company. We’ve continued to build communities [...]
