Gilbane Building Company was awarded a new $111.4 million, 224,071 square foot state-of-the-art structure towers over Salisbury University’s campus. It will be a four-story building equipped with 12 classrooms, 18 group study rooms, and a 418 seat Assembly Hall
This particular job provided Gilbane the opportunity to add to the company’s higher education portfolio, establish a presence on the Eastern Shore and align its mission with Salisbury by stimulating the local economy and hiring local contractors.
One of those local contractors was the newest general contractor in town, Delmarva Veteran Builders. At the time, DVB was a little over a year old and had one full-time employee – the owner, Chris Eccleston and one other part-time employee on the books.
Delmarva Veteran Builders was one of the first company’s on the ground for the project, working on winter protection, to make sure other trades could get to work. Chris knew he needed to grow his workforce quickly to handle the workload on the University job and did so.
Delmarva Veteran Builders is based in Salisbury and has done work in Delaware.
Delmarva is the region’s only commercial construction firm dedicated to bringing employment to veterans.
