What Clients Say

Don't take our word for it — take our clients. We believe that the true measure of a company's worth is the strength and quality of its relationships.

A significant amount of our work every year comes from repeat clients — some of who have been coming back to McCarthy for decades. It's the highest praise they can give us — and one that we particularly treasure. Rather than (continue to) talk about ourselves in glowing terms — we'd like to let our clients do the talking. Here's just a sampling… there's much more if you'd like the whole library full.

“The word 'partner' is much over-used these days.
McCarthy actually worked and acted like one.”

Michael Bishop, assistant superintendent for business services
Paramount (CA) Unified School District
$88 million 16-school modernization and expansion program for 11 schools

“Our ER expansion was right up McCarthy's alley — it was complicated.”

Jim Jeppson, administrative director, Presbyterian Health Services (NM)
$12.7 million, 26,000-sf, Emergency Department remodel and addition

“Dallas now has a striking new addition to its cityscape, and much of the credit goes to McCarthy's perseverance.”

Nunzio DeStanis, principal, HKS, Inc.
$128 million W Hotel and Residences in downtown Dallas. A 988,000-sf, 34-story tower with 252 hotel rooms and 73 luxury condos and a 15-story South Tower with 82 luxury residential units

“McCarthy has yet again proven its ability to provide solutions to unique challenges.”

Jim Gille, senior director of construction services, University of California, San Diego
$17.1 million, 3-level, 39,600-sf addition to an existing Biomedical Library with 35,091-sf of renovation of the existing facility.

“Simply put, we wouldn't have come close to meeting our deadlines were it not for McCarthy.”

John Schoof, chief civil engineer, city of Santa Barbara (CA)
$21.4 million 224,392-sf parking structure and 9,892-sf of city transportation/offices

“12 months into construction, the project is on schedule and under budget. We have a great team on this project, and the joint venture with local contractors could not be working better.”

Timothy J. McDonnell, AIA, chief design and construction officer,
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina
$109.1 million, 375,000-sf East Carolina Heart Institute containing 168 private patient rooms, cardiac treatment and support spaces

“McCarthy lived up to its reputation in building parking garages. They are a good, responsive contractor who met our schedule needs.”

Ron Richardson, associate vice president for facility services, CSU-Sacramento
$33.7 million, 1,000,000-sf, six-level, 3,100 space parking garage. Project included 6 stair towers and 10 elevator shafts

“I like to see what's going on real time. Having instant access to McCarthy's Prolog project management system allowed me to do this.”

Candy Cooley, director of school construction, Florence Unified School District (AZ)
$11.4 million, 101,700-sf new K-8 school

“McCarthy was our steady partner. They stepped outside the box.”

Claude Rounds, vice president for administration, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
$70 million 218,000-sf, 5-story Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies; research and laboratory facilities, as well as public and administrative areas.

“The relationship between the various teams on the project instilled a spirit of teamwork that resulted in a high quality and reliable power plant.”

Raymond Lorenzi, site project engineer, Siemens Power Generation, Inc.
$14 million installation of two Siemens Westinghouse 501F (180 MW) combustion turbine generators and all auxiliary equipment and services at AmerenUE power plant.

“McCarthy's experience working on operating school campuses, together with their commitment to quality construction, and meeting schedules and budgets, made them our ideal contractor.”

Jim Threadgill, assistant superintendent for operations,
Glendale Union High School District (AZ)
$20 million Media Building and HVAC upgrades

“Few builders in Phoenix can apply the level of estimating that McCarthy has ... and the benefits have been significant.”

Rob Kerwin, owner's representative, FourSite Consulting, LLC
$39 million, 275,000-sf pedestrian shopping mall named Tempe Marketplace in Arizona.

“Strong yet respectful defines McCarthy approach. They;ve been very helpful in ensuring we make timely decisions.”

Jim Bostic, assistant vice president of construction, St. Joseph Heath System, Orange (CA)
Projects include a $14.2 million, 7-level parking structure; a $20.7 million, 7-story, medical office building; and a $41.1 million cancer center.

“My experience to date with McCarthy has been top notch. Your mobilization efforts and assessment and cultivation of the Boise subcontractor market were very impressive.”

Darryl Fugate, director, facility services, St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center (ID)
$96.5 million 400,000-sf, 10-story Center for Advanced Healing patient tower addition between two existing hospital towers consisting of new main lobby, central sterile, 16 operating rooms, ICU and private patient rooms.

“It's almost unheard of for school construction to be under budget, but McCarthy's plan made it happen.”

Steve RItter, assistant superintendent -- business services,
Huntington Beach Union High School (CA)
$18.8 million construction management services for modernization and expansion of six high schools ($202.0 million construction value).