Essex General Construction

Essex General Construction is a Eugene, Oregon contractor that builds across the Willamette Valley and the wider Pacific Northwest, with work spanning aviation, education, healthcare, and commercial projects. The firm is the prime contractor on the Eugene Airport’s Concourse A expansion, handling terminal paving, structural work, and electrical upgrades while the airfield stays in operation. Essex self-performs concrete and carpentry and delivers projects through both design-build and CM/GC contracts. It’s known regionally for phased work that keeps occupied buildings running through construction, the kind of sequencing an active-terminal job demands.

Founded by Jon Texter in Eugene in 1987, Essex General Construction added a Portland office in 2014 to manage work across Western Oregon and into Southwest Washington. The commercial general contractor builds a broad range of project types – industrial facilities, market-rate and affordable multifamily housing, offices and corporate headquarters, restaurants, schools, senior housing, retail and public facilities – through both negotiated and publicly bid contracts. Delivering via design-build and CM/GC, and self-performing concrete and carpentry, gives it more direct control of schedule and quality on occupied and phased sites. Decades of Willamette Valley work have made it a familiar name on regional commercial and public projects.