Constructive Alternatives

We've earned an ICC Class A General Contractor license and bring over four decades of experience creating award-winning, eclectic, green-built homes. Before "going green" our GC led huge crews as the superintendent for iconic buildings such as downtown Denver's 30-story Tabor Center, Denver Tech Center's 10-story Empower Retirement Triple Towers; picturesque Vail Marriott Mountain Resort; and the highly energy-efficient Boulder County Justice Center and Boulder County Jail. All told, we've built, remodeled, or energized hundreds of homes, commercial properties, executive hangars, earth-sheltered dwellings, sound studios, and luxury housing developments. Our sweet spot is combining high performance building envelopes with renewable energy, HRV/ERV, battery storage, and reclaimed water systems. We love erecting high R-value super strong structures that use recycled or sustainably-sourced building products - like insulated concrete forms (ICFs) and cross-laminated timber (CLT), installing passive hydronic heating & cooling systems, interconnecting HRV/ERV air handlers for healthy indoor environments, and designing renewable power systems with battery back-up for "off-grid" homes, pools, ranches, and remote commercial projects. When we have the opportunity to partner with others who also want to BUILD BETTER, that's where the magic happens! There's something special about collaborating with cutting edge visionaries, architects, designers, developers, engineers, entrepreneurs, sustainability advocates, DIY-ers, and "CAN DO-ers." These are the kind of people that we can best help with customizing a smart, energy-efficient, and strong building structure that harnesses wind, solar PV, solar thermal, geothermal, and/or microhydro in the mechanical room. Together this creates elegant, comfortable, low maintenance, and healthy indoor living and working environments that can stand up to the harshest elements (fire, wind, rain, cold, heat) AND the test of time.