Tradition, technology and customer service

Hathaway Dinwiddie provides General Contracting and complete Project Planning and Management services in California's most dynamic markets.

For nearly a century, we have helped the nation's premier companies and institutions develop landmark structures and quality interior spaces throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and Southern California.

We Build Efficiently

We effectively coordinate resources to reach schedule milestones. Our experience in building projects ranging from small buildings to landmark projects has taught us the complexities of time management and effective planning.

Delivering a project on time is as important as delivering on budget. We strive to ensure that we present reasonable, properly planned construction schedules. Our detailed management plan incorporates conceptual and detailed estimating with construction scheduling. From conceptual design to grand opening, we manage the schedule to deliver as promised.

We Build Quality

Quality begins in the planning phase. Our preconstruction input starts with the development of the initial quantity survey, budget and schedule. Each of these elements must be balanced with your needs (operationally, financially, and logistically) as well as coordinated with the capacity of the architects and their consultants. Construction projects are a team effort. We build quality by first building a team environment based on strong communication and excellent planning.

We bring real value to projects though our ability to communicate openly and accurately with our clients and designers. We study options for materials, details, phasing and sequencing to maximize value to your project. Most importantly, we build high quality facilities that truly meet the expectations of our clients.

We Build Value

We understand how important cost is to a successful project. Our projects have clearly defined budgets based on significant research and planning before construction starts. Further, we control cost by effective planning and resource management. We work closely with clients to ensure that the planning phases result in effective budgets, bringing all parties together to ensure that all costs are properly discussed in advance.

Our long-term commitment to cost-effective management, combined with our expertise, enables us to deliver projects as budgeted. We are skilled at working with designers throughout the preparation of construction documents to assure compliance to the scope, cost, schedule and quality goals.

We Build Partnerships

We provide complete construction services based on a variety of delivery options, all utilizing a collaborative approach. Regardless of the nature of the project, we can be most effective if included on the project team as early as possible. In this way, we can help clarify project goals and expectations before valuable design time is invested. Often, we even help select the best delivery process for the project, based on our lengthy experience with a broad variety of options.

Most importantly, we understand how to effectively work with others to maximize the results of the project. We can play a variety of roles depending on the needs of the project.

We Build Safely

Construction is recognized by all as one of the high hazard industries requiring every effort to provide and maintain a healthful and safe work place. We are committed to achieving that goal. The safety of everyone at or near one of our construction sites, is something we take very seriously.

The value of protecting the life and health of our employees cannot be overstated. There are great benefits derived from a strong safety culture. Productivity and morale are raised and insurance costs are reduced. Because of the strong commitment of the entire Hathaway Dinwiddie staff, we are consistently rated among the nation's safest builders.

We Build Sustainably

Hathaway Dinwiddie has extensive experience with sustainable construction practices. Although practically all of our work is in California, we have ranked as high as the #5 Green Contractor in the nation in Engineering News Record. We have also ranked as high as the #2 Green Contractor for Educational Facilities. Nearly 35% of our staff members are LEED Accredited Professionals and all of our project teams are knowledgeable about the various credits in the United States’ Green Building Council’s LEED Certification system.

Please visit our LEED / Sustainable projects category for additional information on some of our expertise with "Green" building.;

We Build Technologically

Hathaway Dinwiddie is a leader in the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM). We use BIM, a computer-based, 3D modeling and visualization process in every phase of our project delivery life cycle. In preconstruction, Hathaway Dinwiddie is an innovator in advancing BIM capabilities that vastly improve the project estimating and planning processes. We add value in the coordination process through our use of 3D detailing and coordination in a virtual environment, addressing clashes and mitigating conflicts before breaking ground. As we integrate BIM into the construction site, we see increases in productivity and advancements in prefabrication that have profound impacts on cost, schedule, and sustainability.

Through continued development of advanced construction techniques, Hathaway Dinwiddie remains California’s Builder of Choice and an industry leader in BIM integration technology.