Services05
Renovation & Restoration
Old buildings, honest assessments, and repairs that hold.
Request a BidOverview
Renovation risk lives behind the walls. We open up, probe, and test before we price, so the number you get already accounts for the rotted header and the undersized service. Structural repair, envelope replacement, hazardous material abatement, and full adaptive reuse of buildings a century old.
What's included
- Existing-conditions survey, probing, and destructive testing
- Structural repair, underpinning, and seismic retrofit
- Roof, facade, window, and waterproofing replacement
- Asbestos, lead, and mold abatement coordination
- Adaptive reuse and change-of-occupancy code upgrades
- Historic-detail restoration and preservation review
How we run it
The way this work actually gets delivered.
01 Investigate
We open walls, pull cores, and document what is actually there before a price is written.
02 Price the risk
Known conditions in the base bid, unknowns in a sized contingency you control.
03 Stabilize
Structure, envelope, and life safety first — finishes only after the building is sound.
04 Restore
Code upgrades and finish work that respect the original building instead of hiding it.
Related work
Renovation & Restoration in the field.
Foundry Works Adaptive Reuse
62,000 SF — 1920s industrial to commercial — Cleveland, OH
Failing timber structure replaced in place; building never lost occupancy.
Route 9 Overpass Replacement
Structural rehabilitation — Poughkeepsie, NY
Deck and bearing replacement under live traffic loading.
FAQs
Questions we get on every renovation & restoration job.
How do you price unknown conditions?
We investigate first — probes, cores, and a conditions report. Known issues go into the base bid; genuine unknowns go into a contingency line you approve draw by draw.
Do you handle asbestos and lead?
We manage licensed abatement contractors, air monitoring, and clearance testing as part of the project, and we sequence it so it never becomes a schedule surprise.
Can you work on historic or landmarked buildings?
Yes. We work through preservation review, match original materials and profiles where required, and document the process for the commission.
Will the building have to close?
Usually not entirely. Most of our renovations are phased so tenants or operations continue in part of the building throughout.
What if the structure turns out worse than expected?
You get a written assessment, options with prices, and our recommendation within days — not a stop-work while everyone argues about who pays.
What clients say
Owners who hired us for this scope.
A 1920s foundry is a nasty building to renovate. Mullarkey found the structural issues in preconstruction instead of month four, and that is the only reason we opened on time.
Marcus Reyes
Managing Partner, Foundry Works Development
$412K under the guaranteed maximum price
Open-book reporting every Friday. I always knew where the money was, and when a trade fell behind I heard it from them before I saw it on site.
Grace Okonkwo
Capital Projects Manager, Merrick Campus Group
6 buildings, 0 change orders over 2%