DESIGN-BUILD
SERVING OTHERS SINCE 2007. PIONEERING IDEAS AND RAISING THE BAR.
Truebeck is a top 10 general contractor defined by safety, quality, partnership, and values. Founded by Sean Truesdale and David Becker in 2007, Truebeck quickly established a reputation for excellence through a commitment to best-in-class service, innovation, and high performance. With annual revenue totaling $1 billion, Truebeck specializes in building award-winning projects within the commercial office, education, healthcare, life science, mission critical, mixed-use, multi-family, and interiors market sectors.
Born in the Bay Area, Truebeck has grown to 500+ employees and four offices dedicated to serving clients throughout the West Coast. We remain steadfast and committed to improving construction practices and elevating industry standards while contributing to the community. Truebeck’s foundational values continue to guide our people and business.
OFFICE LOCATIONS
Portland Sacramento
San Francisco
San Mateo
$1 billion
ABOUT US
Truebeck Construction is an industry-leading full-service general contractor specializing in technical building, complex projects, and interiors. Clients come to us when they have ambitious goals, and when they want certainty, predictable costs, and high-performance buildings. We build it right the first time and deliver the best value
A FULL-SERVICE GC
Truebeck’s work environment foregoes department silos, and instead encourages deep collaboration—with disciplines sitting side-byside. Working in nimble, autonomous teams, each project squad develops their own strategies and efficiencies to achieve the best outcome for your vision. When you work with Truebeck, you engage all our integrated disciplines.
Construction Technology + Innovation
Design-Build
Integrated Project Delivery
MEP Expertise
Preconstruction
Progressive Delivery Methods
Quality Assurance/Quality Control
Safety Management
Self-Perform Work
MARKET SECTORS
Commercial Advanced Technology Education Healthcare Interiors
Life Sciences
Mass Timber
Mission Critical
Mixed-Used
Multi-Family Public Works
These are the values that guide our people and business. They’re what we look for in every employee across the company. Recognizing that our success is founded upon these beliefs, they embody our culture and promise to our employees and business partners. This is our DNA.
WE WIN AS A TEAM AND HIGH-FIVE A LOT.
DON’T DO WHAT’S EASY. DO WHAT’S RIGHT. AND HUSTLE.
PROJECT SUCCESS. EVERY TIME. NO EXCUSES. IF IT’S NOT THE BEST, IT SIMPLY WON’T DO.
COURAGEOUSLY, MAKE IDEAS REALITY. BUSINESS AND LIFE ARE ALL ABOUT PEOPLE.
PROJECT AWARDS
AIA Merit Award for Energy and Sustainability
DBIA, Regional Award for Educational Category
Go Beyond Award for a New Construction Project
USGBC-Northern California, Green Building Super Hero
UC Davis Winery, Brewery & Food Science Bldg, Davis, CA (8)
Coworky Award for Best Space Design
ENR Best Project
Bespoke Co-working, San Francisco, CA (4)
DJC Oregon Top Projects, 1st Place, Industrial, Manufacturing, or Logistics
The Factor Building, Portland, OR
ENR Best Project
Twitter Headquarters/1Tenth, San Francisco, CA (9, 10)
ENR Best Project
Gilead Wellbeing Center, Foster City, CA
ENR Best Project
SmartLabs North Tower Lab & Office, So. San Francisco, CA
ENR Best Project
Mozilla Headquarters, Mountain View, CA (3)
ENR Best Project
IIDA Award
GitHub Headquarters, San Francisco, CA (2)
ENR, Best Project, California Merit Award
SF-Marin Food Bank, San Francisco, CA
ENR California, Best Project, Excellence in Sustainability
County of San Mateo, County Office Building (COB3), Redwood City, CA
ENR California, Best Project, Government/ Public Building
County of San Mateo, County Office Building (COB3), Redwood City, CA
SAFETY AWARDS
President’s Safety Award
Construction Employers’ Association (2016–Present)
CA Voluntary Protection Program (Cal/VPP) Designation
Cal/OSHA (2016–Present)
Excellence in Safety
Construction Employers’ Association (2007–Present) 1st Place, National Construction Safety Excellence Award
AGC (2013)
ENR California, Best Project, Interior/ Tenant Improvement Arc Institute, Palo Alto, CA
IIDA Design Excellence Award, Best in Education TEL HI Childcare Center, San Francisco, CA
Interior Design Magazine, Best Tech Office of the Year, Largest San Francisco Construction Project Uber Headquarters, Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA (1)
Metal Construction Association, Best Overall, Best Solar, and Best Custom project
Thirty75 Tech Office Development, Santa Clara, CA
NAIOP Best of the Bay Award
Tribune Tower, Oakland, CA
Real Estate Deal of the Year Uptown Station, Oakland, CA
Silicon Valley Business Journal Structures Awards, Milestone Project of the Year Apple Park, Cupertino, CA (5, 6)
Silicon Valley Business Journal Structures Awards, Project of the Year
Stanford Research Park at 3223 Hanover, Palo Alto, CA (7)
Silicon Valley Business Journal Structures Awards, Honoree for Office Project, Medium
Thirty75 Tech Office Development, Santa Clara, CA
Silicon Valley Business Journal Structures Awards, Public/Civic Project
County of San Mateo, County Office Building (COB3), Redwood City, CA
Silicon Valley Business Journal Structures Awards, Honoree for Interiors, Small Arc Institute, Palo Alto, CA
NOTABLE COMPANY AWARDS
Best Places to Work
San Francisco Business Times (2013–2014, 2017-2024)
Top 100 Bay Area Corporate Philanthropist
San Francisco Business Times (2017–2024)
University of California, Santa Cruz Kresge College Campus Renewal
SANTA CRUZ, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Kresge College is a dynamic, academic student community organized along a ridge in a redwood forest. Kresge students study liberal arts through creative community spaces, interdisciplinary and experimental teachings, and conscientious approaches to living and learning. The Truebeck/ EHDD design-build team will address the University’s urgent need for more student housing and also focus on critical campus repairs and renovation, imminent seismic upgrade requirements, and site accessibility.
The redevelopment includes eight new dormitories with 585 beds, new Town Hall building, the renovation and refresh of five academic buildings, and demolition of 10 structures. The eight new residential halls consist of mass timber and steel structures, with Kresge L being the tallest at six stories. The advantages of mass timber prefabrication are leveraged to provide schedule and cost savings and improved carbon impacts. The project also includes extensive sitework.
SIZE
156,000sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$250 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT
EHDD Architecture
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build; Mass timber; LEED Silver
Vantage Data Centers
V5 - Santa Clara Campus I
SANTA CLARA, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The V5 Data Center is a four-story, steel structure building with 15MW of raised floor data center space spread across three data modules on separate floors. Situated on a highly connected carrier neutral campus with extensive diverse fiber connections and a multitude of services, this modern data center includes N+1 redundancy that ensures system availability in the event of component failure and offers support for customers seeking higher power densities. The project also consisted of designbuild MEP systems, sitework, and Class A building amenities, including office space, conference rooms, and a break room.
SIZE
109,228sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$150 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT
CAS Architects
DELIVERY METHOD
Design-build MEP Systems / Multiple Prime Delivery
County of San Mateo Health Campus
SAN MATEO, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Health System campus project encompasses a full city block and includes 200,000sf of sitework and 289,000sf of construction comprising multiple buildings, including the “1954 Building” (Administration Building), Nursing Wing, Diagnostic and Treatment Center, Clinics, Central Plant, North Addition, and Health Services Building.
The OSHPD 1 and 3 project consists of the following: demolition of a 109,000sf 1954 Building that may contain hazardous materials and a 69,000sf Health Services Building; 27,000sf nursing wing ground floor renovation including outpatient rehabilitation clinic and dietary kitchen, café and, server; new 70,000sf three-story Administration Office Building; 5,000sf North Addition Building Rehab Department renovation; new 20,000sf Link Building connecting the new Administration Office Building to the hospital; 3,000sf Health Services Building remodel; and 6,000sf central plant renovation.
SIZE
289,000sf (Buildings); 200,000sf (Sitework)
CONSTRUCTION COST
$176 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Taylor Design
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build; OSHPD 1 & 3; LEED certified
Sonoma State University
Stevenson Hall Renovation
ROHNERT PARK, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Utilizing a design-build delivery method designed to increase collaboration, the project includes 32,000sf of new construction for the colleges of Education, Social Sciences, Business and Economics. The project was a complete renovation and expansion including an atrium addition with significant seismic retrofitting throughout. Truebeck provided all new MEPF systems, 60% exterior skin replacement designed to provide more natural light, and site improvements. The project accommodates classrooms, offices, an urban design studio, conference rooms, computer and bioscience labs, and a psychology observation room. Sustainability is a critical component, with improving environmental quality and reducing resource utilization primary focuses for this LEED Gold project.
Truebeck performed extensive preconstruction services as well as phasing, scheduling, and site logistics. Core objectives aim to improve campus educational spaces to better meet the needs of the associated disciplines.
SIZE
140,000sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$72 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT
EHDD Architecture
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build; LEED Gold; Fitwel Star; Extensive sitework; BIM coordination; LEED Gold; Design-Build Institute of America Innovation Award; Design-Build Institute of America Design Excellence Award
Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc.
887 Industrial Road Parking Structure
SAN CARLOS, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Phased campus construction of a five-story, 517,600sf
1,510-stall poured-in-place parking structure with two levels above grade and three levels below. The project includes three acres of open space/sitework on an eight-acre site.
SIZE
517,600sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$72 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT ARC TEC, INC.
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build
Vantage Data Centers
V4 Data Center Facility
SANTA CLARA, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This two-story ground-up building was part of Vantage Data Center’s phased campus expansion. The development added three 2.75MW Cummins Generators with 5,000-gallon belly tanks. As a mission critical facility, the design also covered uninterrupted power supply for critical components of the operation, including IT load. Projects within the new facility ranged from complex interrelated building systems (such as security monitoring, cameras, building and energy management systems) to the telecommunications infrastructure connecting existing campus and data distribution.
Additional spaces included offices, conference rooms, break rooms, two data modules, electrical room, and battery room. The building has an electric capacity of 6MW of I.T. power.
SIZE
42,800sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$53.6 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT
CAS Architects
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build; Mission critical
Vantage Data Centers
V1 DM8/DM9 - Santa Clara Campus I SANTA
CLARA, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
In conjunction with the V1 Annex and V1 DM10 projects, this phased sequence consisted of the upgrade to an existing occupied building and included two new data modules, office tenant improvements, and a seismic retrofit. The project added large underfloor chilled water line infrastructure, as well electrical room infrastructure including transformers, switchgear, UPS units, battery cabinets, and CRAH units to support 3MW of data center space at 2N redundancy. Extensive coordination was required to maintain services on this operating mission critical campus and the project was delivered using a design-build delivery method, including design-build MEP systems. The scope also covered uninterrupted power supply for critical components of the operation, including IT load. The project included security monitoring, cameras, building and energy management systems and other complexities to the telecommunications infrastructure connecting the existing campus and data distribution.
SIZE
40,000sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$31.4 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT
CAS Architects
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build; Mission critical campus
General Services Administration (GSA)
911 Federal Building
PORTLAND, OR
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Built in 1953, the eight-story steel-framed structure is home to the GSA, U.S. Congress, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Energy, among other national security entities. This major design-build transformation within a fully occupied and functional federal office building included major seismic and non-seismic structural systems upgrades to ensure the facility’s long-term operational status. This project also included office relocation and build-out for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Earl Blumenauer.
SIZE
312,447sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$38 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Soderstrom Architects
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build; Government agency
Onyx Pharmaceuticals Headquarters
East Grand Campus
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This design-build warm core and shell new construction included infrastructure for lab and office use. Features of this five-story building include assembly space, high-occupancy first floor restrooms, a bridge to an existing adjacent building, an open architectural open central stair, dual lobbies, and a mechanical penthouse with service yard. The facade consists of storefront GFRC and metal panels.
The project featured significant sustainable elements, including increased energy efficiencies of the building’s MEP systems through equipment selection, enhanced lighting and MEP controls, and enhanced commissioning of all systems. The building includes increased energy efficiency measures through the glazing and insulation, and utilizes solar panels at the carports and rooftop. The project team closely monitored and managed the Savings By Design process and secured PG&E incentives for the client, in addition to managing the LEED certification effort.
SIZE
164,000sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
Confidential per Client
PROJECT ARCHITECT DGA
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build; LEED Platinum
555 Market Street Multi-floor Headquarters
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This 15-story design-build office interiors project on Market Street in San Francisco serves as a global corporate headquarters for Uber. The space included high-tech open office areas, large breakrooms, food service and pantries, an auditorium, and a full-service security package integration. The location of the project, in an active downtown location, required multiple permitting requirements and construction was phased to work within an occupied building.
SIZE
260,000sf
CONSTRUCTION COST $28 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT Cannon Design (previously Studio O+A)
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS Design-build
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
269 East Grand
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
269 East Grand is the third building on Alexandria’s life science campus. This ground-up, design-build, three-story shell is a pile-supported structural slab building with a steel frame. Built on the location of the existing parking lot, logistics were paramount due to the proximity to the other two campus active buildings. Skin systems are a combination of curtain wall and GFRC, maintaining the campuses sustainability goals. The structure is an office and lab-ready shell, and the site includes a wind turbine installation adhering to the public art requirements for the campus.
SIZE
106,000sf
CONSTRUCTIAON COST
Confidential per Client
PROJECT ARCHITECT
DGA
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build
SF-Marin Food Bank
Warehouse Expansion
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The primary goal of this design-build warehouse expansion project is to increase the warehouse efficiency to substantially increase food capacity to achieve SFMFB’s mission to end hunger in San Francisco and Marin counties. The expanded facility creates a better welcome for visitors with a new lobby and front entrance, provides expanded warehouse space, and a new food cooler with storage racking. Truebeck renovated the first and second floor offices, conference rooms and restrooms to provide a more updated space for staff. The project created a new loading dock with a new delivery road for incoming and departing shipments. Truebeck was able to keep the delivery route operational for the majority of construction, with close coordination with the Food Bank, so operations could be maintained throughout construction. Sustainable features include solar panels, two 20,000 gallon cisterns to collect water for landscaping irrigation, and the building is all-electric, lowering its carbon footprint.
EHDD Architecture
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build; All-electric building
Vantage Data Centers
V1 DM10 - Santa Clara Campus I
SANTA CLARA, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
In conjunction with the V1 Annex and V1 DM8/DM9 projects, this phased sequence consisted of the upgrade to an existing occupied building included a new data module and office tenant improvements. The most complicated of the phases, the project increased the chilled water infrastructure and cooling capacity and added electrical room infrastructure including transformers, switchgear, UPS units, battery cabinets, and CRAH units to support 3MW of data center space at 2N redundancy. Extensive coordination was required to maintain services on this operating campus and the project was delivered using a design-build delivery method, including design-build MEP systems. As a mission critical facility, the scope also covered uninterrupted power supply for critical components of the operation, including IT load. The project included complex interrelated building systems such as security, energy management, telecommunications infrastructure, and connecting existing campus and data distribution.
TRUEBECK CONSTRUCTION
SIZE
20,000sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$20 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT
CAS Architects
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build; Operating mission critical campus
Nautilus Biotechnology Lab & Office
SAN CARLOS, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This 41,534sf design-build tenant improvement of a Core & Shell space includes a clean room, engineering lab, chemistry lab, and additional laboratory space. The office includes proper protein/ bacterial storage, buffer prep space, microscope spaces with blackout curtains, quality spaces as well as office and conference and a beautiful lobby. All MEP systems were design-build. This tenant improvement started as a spec lab designed by DGA. When Nautilus decided to occupy the space, Truebeck collaborated with DGA to quickly accomodate their needs to customized certain spaces as the sole tenant.
SIZE
41,534sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$18 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT DGA
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build
University of California, Davis
Winery, Brewery, and Food Science Building
DAVIS, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This design-build project for the University of California Davis consists of three main components; the winery for the Department of Viticulture and Enology; the brewery small scale fermentation and classroom; and food pilot plant for the Department of Food Science and Technology. The facilities are a part of the UC Davis Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science and house a working smallscale winery brewery and food processing pilot plant in addition to a dairy processing room. The winery includes large experimental fermentation areas, controlled temperature rooms barrel, and bottle cellars and a testing lab. The entire project provides a world-class research and teaching facility. Support spaces for each department include laboratories classrooms offices controlled temperature rooms and storage facilities.
SIZE
34,000sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$17.25 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Flad Architects
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build; LEED Platinum, USGBC-Northern California, Green Building Superhero; AIA Merit Award for Energy and Sustainability; California Construction Best Award; Award of Merit for Green Building
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Building 41 Research Support Building (RSB)
MENLO PARK, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science laboratory operated by Stanford University. This comprehensive two-story renovation of their 1964era Research Support Building (RSB) had to be functionally efficient and flexible, while meeting a variety of individual and programmatic needs.
The new building provides a modern and attractive environment for staff, upgraded building systems, and meets current accessibility standards. The design-build team delivered the construction documents in multiple, phased packages to meet an aggressive construction schedule.
SIZE
42,000sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$15.5 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Taylor Design
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build; LEED Gold; DOE funded
Codexis
Lab & Office
SAN CARLOS, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This 36,593sf design-build tenant improvement of a core and shell space includes laboratories, office and conference space, lobby, common corridor, and design-build MEP systems.
SIZE
36,593sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$15.1 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT DGA
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS Design-build
Vantage Data Centers
V1 Annex - Santa Clara Campus I SANTA CLARA, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
In conjunction with the V1 DM8/DM9 and V1 DM10 projects, this phased sequence consisted of a two-story, ground-up addition to an existing fully-occupied building included data module build-outs and office tenant improvements. A new loading dock was also constructed, along with infrastructure improvements and associated site work.
The facility added large underfloor chilled water line infrastructure as well as electrical room infrastructure including transformers, switchgear, UPS units, battery cabinets, and CRAH units to support 9MW of data center space at 2N redundancy. Extensive coordination was required to maintain services on this operating mission critical campus and the project was delivered using a design-build delivery method.
SIZE
20,000sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$8 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT
CAS Architects
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build; Operating mission critical campus
BioMarin cGMP Warehouse Facility
NOVATO, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The existing industrial warehouse was converted into an FDA-validated cGMP warehouse that serves as the new support hub for all cGMP facilities on campus. The 25,000sf warehouse included high piled storage with a wire guided forklift system, Class 100,000 QCRM/weigh rooms, Class 10,000 LAF booths, and controlled environmental rooms. Truebeck selfperformed 20% of the project scope.
SIZE
25,000sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$5 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Flad Architects
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build; cGMP facility; Self-perform work
University of California, San Francisco
Cardiology Clinic
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
People from across the United States come to UCSF to receive expert healthcare services. The UCSF Cardiology Clinic is a new state-of-the-art and purpose-built clinic, utilizing the most sophisticated tools to diagnose life-threatening illnesses. Located within an occupied multi-story building, the OSHPD 3 project was completed on a fast-track schedule and under design-build delivery.
SIZE
5,737sf
CONSTRUCTION COST
$2.7 million
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Taylor Design
KEY FEATURES / AWARDS + CERTIFICATIONS
Design-build; OSHPD 3
Portland Sacramento
San Francisco
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