Jordan Foster Construction

Jordan Foster Construction is a Texas general contractor tracing back to 1969, formed from the combination of C.F. Jordan and Foster CM Group. It builds across commercial, multifamily, healthcare, education, hospitality and heavy civil work, and it self-performs concrete and civil scopes on a good share of its projects. The company runs from the San Antonio metro with operations across Texas and the Southwest, and it employs several hundred people. It’s the general contractor on Tower Life Residences, the conversion of San Antonio’s 1929 Tower Life Building into roughly 244 apartments, a federal historic tax credit project inside a 31-storey Art Deco landmark.

Jordan Foster is organized into two operating groups. The Building Group covers commercial, multifamily and hospitality work from offices in Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, Fair Oaks Ranch and Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The Infrastructure and Concrete Group runs separately, from Pflugerville, El Paso, Santa Teresa and its own San Antonio yard on South US Highway 181. The Fair Oaks Ranch address is 29250 Old Fredericksburg Road, Suite 108.

The volume behind those groups is substantial. On the commercial side the company reports millions of square feet of office, retail, industrial and warehouse space, more than 22,000 parking garage spaces and over 30,000 hospitality units. Multifamily accounts for roughly $1.5 billion in construction, more than 80,000 apartment units, 22 HUD communities and over 10,000 student housing beds. The infrastructure side lists extensive TxDOT, federal and public work, millions of yards of concrete slab poured, and millions of square feet of elevated concrete deck installed.

Preconstruction is where the firm concentrates its effort, and it works open-book with owners and designers. That phase covers construction cost budgeting, existing field condition surveys, constructability review, early procurement schedules, management of pre-bid project walks, trade contractor prequalification and interviews, bid qualification, value engineering alternatives, and site logistics planning. Estimating teams fold value engineering into both the estimate and the procurement approach rather than treating it as a separate exercise.

Three delivery methods are offered: construction manager-at-risk, design-build and design-bid-build. During construction the company manages quality assurance, cost and schedule control, safety, and LEED certification where a project pursues it.

Post-construction is not left open-ended. Jordan Foster prepares a warranty manual that the entire project team reviews, retains project documents, and comes back for an 11-month walk-through.

Alongside the two main groups the company maintains a separate Special Projects portfolio, and it runs college recruiting and internship pipelines for construction students. The Associated General Contractors of America has recognized Jordan Foster as one of the nation’s safest construction companies.