MATT Construction

MATT Construction is a general contractor based in Santa Fe Springs, California, founded in 1991 and known for building technically demanding cultural, civic and institutional projects across Southern California. Its portfolio includes museums, performing arts venues, higher education buildings and corporate headquarters, work that typically involves custom facade assemblies and exposed structural systems held to tight tolerances. The firm built The Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles, completed in 2015, and returned as general contractor for The Broad’s $100 million, 55,000-square-foot expansion, which topped out in May 2026. That kind of repeat engagement on a bespoke glass-fiber-reinforced concrete enclosure reflects a specialization in one-off architectural construction rather than repeatable building types.

Look at the awards page and the shape of MATT’s work becomes obvious: cultural, civic and institutional buildings in Los Angeles, most of them technically awkward. The Natural History Museum Commons took ENR Best Cultural and an LABC Civic Building award in 2025. USC’s Dick Wolf Drama Center took ENR Best Renovation/Restoration and an LABC Adaptive Reuse award in 2024, then an LABJ gold award for redevelopment in 2025. (W)rapper, the exoskeleton office tower, collected ENR Best Office in 2023 plus structural engineering honours from NCSEA and the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Hammer Museum’s fourth seismic phase, the Herald Examiner Building, the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, Echelon Studios and the Rose Garden Tea Room at The Huntington round out a decade of similar work.

Three offices carry it: the Santa Fe Springs headquarters at 9814 Norwalk Boulevard, a Westlake Village office on Townsgate Road, and a Las Vegas office on Western Avenue with its own email intake.

MATT prefers to be brought in early, typically at the conceptual or schematic stage, and its preconstruction group leads with constructability and feasibility reporting, line-item cost impacts, and value engineering aimed at protecting critical design elements. Estimators work from a historical cost database and analyse structural, envelope and MEP systems rather than taking off a rendering. The company states that 99 percent of its guaranteed-maximum-price contracts over the last three years landed within one percent of budget, with most of that variance under budget.

Where it makes sense on competitive bids, the firm self-performs structural and architectural concrete, framing and general labour, which it argues gives direct control of quality when site conditions change. Delivery models span construction-manager-at-risk, lump sum, Integrated Project Delivery and design-build. BIM sits underneath all of it, with 3D and 4D modelling used for sequencing, site logistics, clash detection and structural fabrication models.

Two other numbers matter to owners. MATT’s experience modification rate for base workers’ compensation is 0.54, and the firm’s safety director describes working with owners above Cal/OSHA requirements to protect neighbours as well as trades. On the collaboration side, AIA Los Angeles named MATT its Building Team of the Year in two consecutive years and gave the company Presidential Awards in 2010 and 2017.