Construction Division of Interior Solutions Firm dancker Will Offer Custom, Modular Solutions
Somerville, NJ (10/26/23) –
ForBuild – integrated interior solutions firm dancker’s construction services division, providing specialized interior modular construction solutions that empower innovation for clients in the healthcare, education, and corporate environments – is expanding into the DC-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) market.
To date, ForBuild’s operations have been focused exclusively on serving the New Jersey and New York City markets.
“ForBuild’s rapid growth over the past five years, during which it became a $20 million business unit within dancker, prompted the decision to expand into the DMV,” explains dancker CEO Steven Lang. “Our goal is to continue to grow ForBuild as a profitable and differentiated solution that we provide to our clients.”
According to dancker President Kevin Klier, “ForBuild was created to offer a manufactured construction option that is faster, cleaner, and more sustainable than conventional construction.”
While ForBuild got its start with dancker’s recognition that clients needed greater flexibility in their spaces, “we became a leader in healthcare design due to our ability to support construction managers such as Lend Lease and CBRE Health with complex projects for multiple health systems in New York and New Jersey, including Mount Sinai, NYU Langone, Valley Hospital, and New York Presbyterian,” says Rita Lemley, Vice President, Modular Interior Construction at ForBuild.
ForBuild has earned recognition for its leadership, innovation, and client satisfaction on complex healthcare projects, including emergency department expansions completed during the COVID-19 pandemic. This experience ultimately led to ForBuild winning its largest project to date: Jefferson Health’s Specialty Care Pavilion, The Honickman Center, a new 14-story, state-of-the-art medical facility in Philadelphia. Currently under construction, the Center features 85,000 square feet of modular interior construction and build-out, including 350 exam rooms.
Lemley notes that modular construction solutions offer numerous advantages to today’s building owners and construction managers. As supply chain challenges, construction costs and labor shortages continue to affect the construction industry, ForBuild is better able to meet the needs of clients and construction managers by introducing a fully integrated solution that can be manufactured (or pre-fabricated) in a factory, transported to the site, and then assembled on location. And because this technology-driven approach allows a project to run simultaneously on-site and in-factory, it can be substantially faster than conventional construction.
In addition to its headquarters in Somerville, NJ, dancker already operates several Experience Centers and logistical facilities in the DMV market, including offices in Baltimore, MD, Beltsville, MD, Capitol Heights, MD, and Gaithersburg, MD. It also acquired an Integrated Technology Contractor, Columbia, MD-based Design Build Engineering (DBE Systems), earlier this year.
ForBuild’s expansion into the DMV market represents a continuation of dancker’s long tradition of providing unique solutions to forward-thinking clients seeking custom results. At nearly 200 years old, dancker creates effective and flexible environments for organizations that include several Fortune 100 companies.
About dancker
Founded in 1829, dancker is one of the country’s oldest privately held companies. dancker integrates architectural, furniture, technology, and logistics solutions as a one-source provider to corporate, government, education, and healthcare facilities. A leading interior solutions firm, dancker works with its clients to create spaces that maximize the flow between people and ideas to unleash creative, productive, human potential. For more information, visit https://www.dancker.com/, email info@dancker.com, or call us at (908) 231-1600.
About ForBuild
ForBuild offers modular construction solutions that lever technology and off-site efficiencies to forward-thinking clients seeking custom results. We assist clients to build faster, cleaner, and more sustainable, while managing design quality, cost control, and schedule certainty. For more information, visit www.forbuild.com or email info@forbuild.com.
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