Rodgers Builders

Rodgers Builders is a Charlotte general contractor founded in 1978, with deep experience in healthcare, higher-education, and cultural projects across the Carolinas. The firm is part of the DPR Rodgers joint venture building Atrium Health’s 12-story, 448-bed tower at Carolinas Medical Center, a project valued north of $900 million. Rodgers, now part of the Kajima family of companies, has built much of its reputation on complex hospital work, where construction has to proceed on active medical campuses without disrupting patient care. It remains one of the region’s established institutional builders, with a bench of self-perform and preconstruction capabilities.

Rodgers Builders began in 1963 with a modest stake: B.D. Rodgers, a registered professional engineer, borrowed $5,000 against his life insurance policy and, at 39, left a healthcare architecture and engineering firm to start his own construction company in Charlotte. The healthcare thread from that first job never left; it remains one of the firm’s defining specialties.

Six decades later Rodgers offers full-service preconstruction and construction management, general contracting, design-build, program management, integrated project delivery, virtual design and construction, and self-performed concrete. Its expertise clusters around healthcare, education, commercial and mixed-use, cultural and community, and senior-living projects. The firm has been ranked nationally among top CM-at-Risk builders by Engineering News-Record and among leading healthcare general contractors by Modern Healthcare.

The client roster leans corporate and institutional, and the company reports that a large share of its work comes from repeat clients. From its Charlotte headquarters, Rodgers also operates offices in Raleigh and Wilmington, North Carolina, and Greenville and Charleston, South Carolina.