Fortis Construction is an employee-owned general contractor founded in Portland, Oregon in 2003, and it is also the name of at least three other unrelated construction companies in the United States. That collision is why most searches for this brand end in the wrong place. This guide separates the firms, documents what the Portland company actually builds, and shows the license lookup that settles it in under two minutes.
Fortis Construction at a Glance
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2003 |
| Headquarters | Portland, Oregon |
| Ownership | Employee owned |
| Office locations | Oregon and Utah, plus a Singapore address on its corporate profile |
| Core markets | Commercial, data center, education, healthcare, industrial, life sciences |
| Project range | Tenant improvements under $100,000 to facilities over $1 billion |
| Repeat client share | More than 90 percent of work |
| President | Andrea Weisheimer, named January 2026 |
With offices in Oregon and Utah, the company specializes in the commercial, data center, education, healthcare, industrial, and life sciences markets, and reports a team of more than 600 employees working on projects across multiple states and around the globe.
Which Fortis Construction Are You Looking For?
This is the part the top search results skip. Four distinct businesses use the name, and only one is the Portland general contractor.
| Company | Base | What it does | Web identity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fortis Construction, Inc. | Portland, Oregon | Employee-owned commercial GC and construction manager | fortisconstruction.com |
| Fortis Construction, LLC | Continental U.S. | Railroad, heavy civil, mine reclamation, environmental, fleet maintenance | fortisllc.us |
| Fortis Construction (California) | California | Licensed general contractor, new construction and renovation since 1979 | fortiscompany.com |
| Fortis Construction (Pryor, OK listing) | Pryor, Oklahoma | Commercial building contractor directory listing tied to the Portland domain | chamber directory |
The second firm is not a scaled-down version of the first. Fortis Construction, LLC is a privately owned specialty contractor serving the railroad industry, general industrial clients, and government agencies, with divisions covering environmental, railroad, heavy civil and mine reclamation, electrical and mechanical, and fleet maintenance work.
The California firm is older than the Portland one. It describes itself as a full service construction firm handling new construction and renovations since 1979, licensed and bonded in California under state license number 760494.
The Oklahoma entry is the one that fools people most often. A Pryor, Oklahoma chamber directory lists a "Fortis Construction" under commercial building contractors with a local Main Street address and phone number, while pointing to the fortisconstruction.com website. Treat that as a project-area listing, not a second headquarters, and confirm it before you mail bid documents anywhere.
Inside the Employee-Owned Model
Employee ownership is the single structural fact that explains most of what follows. The company frames itself as an employee-owned general contractor making an impact through relationships, the built environment, and the communities it serves, with team members empowered to lead and make decisions, and it credits that culture for over 90 percent of its work coming from repeat clients.
A 90 percent repeat rate is the number to weigh if you are comparing bidders. In commercial contracting, repeat work is the only metric that cannot be manufactured by marketing. It means owners came back after seeing the closeout, the punch list, and the change order log.
The Four Core Values
The firm publishes four core values: relationships, pioneering, winning, and pride. Read them operationally rather than as slogans:
- Relationships show up as the repeat client share, not as a mission statement.
- Pioneering explains early adoption of model-based coordination well before it was standard.
- Winning in a repeat-client business means closing out on schedule, not undercutting a trade partner.
- Pride is the value that gets tested on punch lists and safety audits.
What Fortis Construction Actually Builds
The portfolio answers three owner questions at once: what type, how big, and where.
The company is dedicated to commercial, data center, education, and healthcare markets, with resources for projects ranging from tenant improvements of less than $100,000 to high-tech facilities of more than $1 billion. Industrial and life sciences now appear alongside those markets on the company's own culture page, which older third-party profiles do not reflect.
Public permit and project data describes large-scale commercial work across the Pacific Northwest, including office buildings, educational facilities, university science buildings, and medical centers, delivered through preconstruction planning, construction management, and design-build methods, with LEED-certified projects in the mix.
What it does not do: single-family homes. That is the most common misread of the brand, and it is the reason homeowners searching this name usually need a local residential or light commercial builder instead.
Data Centers Are a Specialty, Not a Sector Label
Mission critical work carries tolerances that general commercial construction does not. Power density, cooling, and commissioning drive the schedule, and the load curve keeps steepening. A 2024 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory report published by the U.S. Department of Energy estimates that data center load growth tripled over the past decade and is projected to double or triple again by 2028. You can read the Department of Energy summary of that data center load research for the underlying numbers.
For a builder, that trend means electrical and mechanical scope now dominates the critical path on these jobs, and commissioning becomes a phase of its own rather than a closeout task.
Mass Timber and Science and Technology Work
Mass timber gets specified for carbon performance, speed of erection, and exposed finish quality. The catch is that cross-laminated timber panels arrive cut to the millimeter, so sequencing, tolerances, and weather protection must be resolved in preconstruction, not in the field.
Height limits are now codified rather than negotiated. The 2021 International Building Code introduced Type IV-A at a maximum of 18 stories with noncombustible protection on all mass timber elements, Type IV-B at a maximum of 12 stories with limited exposed timber, and Type IV-C at a maximum of 9 stories with two-hour fire resistance.
Both the 2021 and 2024 editions include those three construction types, with the 2024 edition changing the allowance for exposed mass timber ceilings and integral beams in Type IV-B. The International Code Council's technical write-up on the tall mass timber provisions covers the code sections involved.
Virtual Design and Construction
Autodesk's customer profile describes "we make an impact" as the core ideology of the Portland-based employee-owned contractor, recognized for using construction technology to deliver projects, with repeat customers accounting for more than 90 percent of business.
That profile also notes that integrating BIM into planning and preconstruction let project teams resolve issues and optimize constructability before breaking ground, a program the company built gradually from the days when it had roughly 75 employees, shaped largely by owner relationships that let it influence project processes.
Here is what model-based coordination changes in practice:
- Clash detection finds a duct running through a beam in the model, not after steel is set.
- The fix becomes a drawing revision instead of a change order.
- Trade coordination happens once, in a shared model, rather than three times in separate 2D sets.
- The owner keeps the model after closeout for operations and future renovations.
This is not contractor marketing language. The federal government's own standard requires model-based design, including native and IFC BIM deliverables at all project milestones, with any supplementary 2D deliverables derived from the model, plus open-standard facility management data at every milestone. Review the GSA 3D-4D building information modeling program if you want to see what a sophisticated owner asks for.
Leadership and Company Data in 2026
Fortis Construction named Andrea Weisheimer as president in a January 28, 2026 announcement.
The company was recognized by ENR in 2023 as a top contractor nationally and as one of the leading green contractors in the United States.
Third-party databases disagree badly on headcount and revenue, which is worth knowing before you quote any of them in a board memo.
| Source type | Employees reported | Revenue reported |
|---|---|---|
| Company culture page | More than 600 | Not published |
| Trade directory profile | 500+ | Undisclosed |
| Business social profile | 201 to 500 | Not published |
| Sales database A | 201 to 500 | $2.2 billion |
| Sales database B | Approximately 808 | Not published |
| Employer review site | 201 to 500 | $1 billion to $5 billion range |
The company's own figure is a team of more than 600 employees.
A trade directory lists it at 500+ employees with annual volume undisclosed.
One sales database shows 201 to 500 employees with $2.2 billion in revenue.
Another reports roughly 808 employees across five continents as of July 2026. The spread comes from stale profile data and from inconsistent treatment of craft labor versus salaried staff.
Address data drifts the same way. Older public bid directories still carry the 1705 SW Taylor Street, Suite 200 address in Portland.
A current database profile lists 5331 S Macadam Ave, Suite 100, Portland. Verify before anything gets couriered.
How to Verify Any Contractor Named Fortis Construction
This is the step that resolves the name collision for good. On our own prequalification reviews, the fastest disqualifier is a license number that does not match the legal business name written on the bid.
Work the list in order:
- Get the license number in writing.
In Oregon, the most accurate lookup uses the CCB license number, and contractors are required to put that number on advertising including brochures, websites, and business cards. Search the official Oregon CCB contractor license database directly.
- Match the legal entity. "Inc." and "LLC" are different companies here, not formatting choices.
- Check the state of the project, not the state of the office. A firm licensed in Oregon needs separate standing to build in Utah, Oklahoma, or New Jersey.
- Confirm bond, general liability, and workers compensation dates. An active license can sit on top of expired coverage.
- Ask for three references in your exact building type. Data center references do not predict healthcare performance.
- Request the last two closeout packages. Schedule slippage and change order volume show up there faster than in any reference call.
That same sequence works for any general contractor, in any state, at any project size.
Hiring a Comparable Contractor in New Jersey
Most people who search this brand are not about to award a billion dollar campus. They want the same discipline at a local scale: coordinated drawings, a real schedule, and a contractor who still answers the phone during closeout.
That is the work we do at Lion Construction, and the vetting standards above are the ones we expect clients to hold us to.
Where that discipline shows up in our own scope:
- Commercial construction for ground-up and major renovation projects
- Tenant fitups on landlord schedules and occupied-building constraints
- Structural framing where tolerances feed every trade downstream
- Commercial facades for envelope replacement and weather-tight detailing
- Full general contracting across our New Jersey service area, including Bridgewater
If you are scoping an occupied-space project, our guide to vetting a commercial renovation contractor walks through phasing, allowances, and the questions that expose a thin bid.
Ready to price your project? Get a free estimate and we will walk the site with you before anything gets numbered.
FAQ
Where is Fortis Construction headquartered?
Portland, Oregon, with additional offices in Utah. Public bid directories still list the former 1705 SW Taylor Street, Suite 200 address , while a current database profile shows 5331 S Macadam Ave, Suite 100 . Confirm the mailing address with the company before sending bid documents.
Who owns Fortis Construction?
It is employee owned. Public bid registration data describes it as an employee-owned general contractor headquartered in Portland, Oregon. It is privately held, so ownership percentages are not published.
How many employees does Fortis Construction have?
The company reports more than 600 employees. Third-party databases range from 201 to 500 up to roughly 808, because profile data goes stale and sources differ on whether craft labor is counted with salaried staff.
Who is the president of Fortis Construction?
Andrea Weisheimer was named president in a January 28, 2026 announcement. Executive listings on third-party databases lag these changes by months, so check the company's own newsroom for the current org chart.
What types of construction does Fortis Construction do?
Commercial general contracting and construction management. Its stated markets are commercial, data center, education, healthcare, industrial, and life sciences. It does not build single-family residential work.
How much revenue does Fortis Construction generate?
The company is privately held and does not publish financials, so every circulating figure is a third-party estimate. One sales database lists $2.2 billion , while an employer review site places it in a $1 billion to $5 billion band . Treat both as estimates.
Is Fortis Construction the same company as Fortis Construction LLC?
No. Fortis Construction, LLC is a privately owned specialty contractor serving the railroad industry, general industrial clients, and government agencies across the continental United States , and it is unrelated to the Portland general contractor. A separate California firm of the same name has operated since 1979 as a licensed and bonded general contractor in that state.
Does Fortis Construction work outside Oregon?
Yes. It reports offices in Oregon and Utah and projects in multiple U.S. states and across the globe , and its trade profile cites work in the U.S., Europe, and Asia . For a project in New Jersey, you are better served by a locally licensed contractor, and you can reach our team here.
