Encore Electric

Encore Electric is an electrical contractor founded in 2000 and headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, working across the Mountain West on commercial, healthcare, data center, higher education, industrial and infrastructure projects. The employee-owned firm handles design-assist and design-build electrical scopes, prefabrication, power distribution, low-voltage and building systems integration, and 24-hour service work. Encore is a key trade partner on the $200 million Energy and Minerals Research Facility at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, a six-level, 192,000-sq-ft laboratory building for the U.S. Geological Survey and the university. Laboratory and data center work of that type puts unusual demands on power quality, redundancy and coordination with mechanical trades.

Encore Electric states it has more than 1,200 employees and bonding capability above 100 million dollars, with more than one billion dollars of design-build and design-assist electrical installations completed. Those three figures together describe a contractor sized for negotiated work on large projects rather than hard-bid competition.

Fabrication is where the company differs from most electrical contractors its size. It runs a 16,000 square foot prefabrication warehouse, and a separate business, Encore Fabrication Solutions, manufactures control panels, portable distribution centres, modular substations and portable electric buildings from a UL 508A and UL 698 certified facility. That work serves oil and gas, power generation, utility, and food and beverage clients, which puts the firm into industrial markets well outside the commercial construction it is better known for.

The service side runs 24-hour on-call support alongside scheduled maintenance, so emergency response and planned preventative work come from the same organisation that carried out the original installation.

Geography is Rocky Mountain rather than Colorado alone. Offices are listed in Lakewood, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Eagle and Basalt in Colorado, plus Cheyenne in Wyoming, Belgrade in Montana and West Jordan in Utah. That footprint covers the Front Range, the western slope resort corridor and two neighbouring states, which is the natural service area for a contractor working data centres, healthcare, aerospace, aviation and mission-critical facilities.

Technology Solutions is listed as a service line in its own right alongside preconstruction, construction, prefabrication and service. For an owner, that means structured cabling, security and building systems can be carried on the same contract as the power distribution rather than split across two trades.

One gap worth noting: the company’s own about page presents its history as a graphical timeline without stating a founding year in text, so the 2000 founding date carried on this listing comes from elsewhere and has not been confirmed against Encore’s own site.