Trades and suppliers who keep schedules
Build With Us
The crews and suppliers who install and deliver the work. We look for firms that plan ahead, staff honestly and close out clean.
Partner with us · 3 ways to work together
Good projects need good partners.
Every GilbertLanham job is built by a team that reaches well beyond our own payroll. Trade firms, suppliers, co-venturers and innovators shape the schedule as much as we do, so we plan with them from the start.
Partner groups
Choose how you work with us.
Three paths, each with a real person on the other end. Tell us who you are and we will route you to the team that buys, teams or pilots in your area.
Shared risk, shared delivery
Invest With Us
Joint ventures and public-private partnerships for programs that need more capacity, capital or staying power than one company brings alone.
Tools that make jobs more predictable
Innovate With Us
Tools, materials and methods that cut risk, rework or days off the schedule. Prove them on live work beside our crews.
Our standard
What earns a second invitation.
We remember who made the schedule easier. The firms we call back share three habits, whatever their size.
01
Plan before you mobilize
Your crew shows up knowing the sequence, the hazards and what the trade behind you needs from you.
02
Say it early
If manpower, material or cash is getting tight, tell us now. A problem raised in the look-ahead is a problem we can solve together.
03
Close out like you started
Punch lists finished, closeout documents complete and warranty calls answered long after the last day on site.
What to expect
Our side of the deal.
Four commitments we make to every partner, on every job, whether your firm has five people or five hundred.
- Payment
- Terms in writing before you mobilizeRetainage, billing dates and the pay application cycle are spelled out at award. You know how and when you get paid before your crew sets foot on site.
- Safety
- The same rules for every crewA site-specific safety plan, pre-task planning every shift and the authority for any worker, yours or ours, to stop a task that looks wrong.
- Communication
- A schedule you can plan aroundLook-ahead schedules every week, RFIs tracked until they close and one named GilbertLanham contact who answers the phone.
- Growth
- A path to bigger scopesRising Trade Partners gives emerging firms hands-on help with bidding, scheduling, bonding readiness and the paperwork that gets you paid.
Mentoring program
Rising Trade Partners.
A year-long program for small, emerging and disadvantaged firms. Each firm works with a GilbertLanham mentor on the business side of construction: bids, schedules, safety programs and getting paid.
- Bid reviews with our preconstruction team
- Look-ahead scheduling and critical path basics
- Safety program reviews and site orientation
- Help with bonding, insurance and pay applications
Partner questions.
I am not sure which path fits my firm. Where do I start?
Send a few lines about your company and what you want to do to partnership@gilbertlanham.com. We will route it to the right team and come back with next steps.
Do I have to prequalify before I can bid?
For most subcontract scopes, yes. Prequalification is how our estimators know they can invite you with confidence. Suppliers use a separate registration.
Is there room for small and emerging firms?
Yes. Many scopes are packaged so growing firms can compete, and Rising Trade Partners offers a year of mentoring for firms building capacity.
Which markets do you hire partners for?
All four of our sectors and all 22 markets. Project teams look first to qualified partners near each site.
I have a technology to license or pilot. Who do I contact?
Technology licensing and innovation inquiries go to techlicense@gilbertlanham.com, or use the form on the Innovate With Us page.
Partner with GilbertLanham
Your firm. Our next job site.
Tell us your trade, your capacity and the work you want to win. Someone on our partner team will read it and reply.