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Pictured is the Cowen team in their corporate offices in the Utica Place building, a project completed by Cowen in 2008 Foreground: David Carder. Second row, left to right: Rob Wright, Becky Manasco, Lesli Pitts and John Cowen. Third row: Ryan Rhuems, Brian Hart, Link Cowen and Adam Turner. Fourth row: Phil Hamburger and Adam Hall.
since 1896
cowen construction Working as a stonemason building depots along the newly constructed railroad line, Nathan Cowen’s talents became known throughout Indian Territory in the late 1890s. Because of those skills, he was asked to build several buildings in his town of Shawnee, where he began Cowen Construction in 1896. Over the past 116 years, the company’s original qualities of skill, responsibility and integrity have been passed down through four generations of Cowens who have taken the company into the 21st century. “Cowen Construction has endured the transformation from Indian Territory to statehood, two world wars, the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl years,” says John Cowen, company president and Nathan Cowen’s grandson. “We’ve built our company on the tenets of adaptability, quality and surpassing our client’s expectations. Construction is about more than brick and mortar, it’s about relationships.” It’s those relationships that made Cowen one of the most respected construction companies in the state. As a full-service construction manager, Cowen serves the institutional,
2200 South Utica Place Suite 100 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74114 (918) 582-2220 www.cowenresidential.com
manufacturing, health care, religious and private sectors. Core services include design-build, general contracting, construction management and client representation. Two sister companies, Cowen Residential and Integra Concrete, bring the full resources of the Cowen team to the residential construction and concrete subcontracting sectors of the industry. Cowen’s staff of nearly 100 provides a variety of in-house services that creates a unique team-based approach to manage every aspect of a project from start to finish. While Cowen’s impact on Tulsa can be seen in the structures it builds, some of its most notable achievements go unseen. Cowen built the first LEED registered project in the state and recently finished the first LEED certified health care facility in Tulsa. Also, each of the management team members is green advantage certified. Cowen has also garnered a number of local, regional and national awards during its operation, including numerous Build Oklahoma Awards and the Builder of the Year award from the Associated General Contractors of America and the Army-Navy “E” award for excellence.