C.W. Driver Companies

C.W. Driver Companies is a Southern California builder founded in 1919, with a portfolio weighted toward education, civic, healthcare, and commercial work. The firm is the general contractor on the Hunter Hall of Science and Engineering at CSU San Marcos, a roughly $110 million, 70,000-square-foot laboratory building that topped out in 2026. C.W. Driver has spent much of its century-plus history on institutional projects across the region, the kind of work that rewards contractors who can phase construction around active campuses. It operates through offices across California under the C.W. Driver and Driver SPG brands.

C.W. Driver Companies has been building in Southern California since 1919, when Clarence Wike Driver started the firm in Los Angeles. More than a century later it holds the distinction of being the oldest active licensed builder headquartered in the region, and it marks its centennial with a body of work exceeding 200 million square feet.

The company delivers projects through general contracting, construction management and design-build, and it layers in preconstruction planning, integrated project delivery, LEED and sustainable construction practices, and building information modeling. Its portfolio leans into public and institutional work: education facilities from K-12 through universities, civic and cultural centers, churches, multifamily housing, senior living, hotels and office tenant improvements.

C.W. Driver keeps its base in Pasadena and runs additional offices in Los Angeles, Anaheim, Rancho Cucamonga, San Diego and Carlsbad, a footprint that keeps its teams close to the Southern California communities it has spent a hundred-plus years building in.