Overview
Jamail & Smith Construction is celebrating its twenty-fifth year as a General Contractor in 2007. We began constructing shopping centers and retail facilities in 1982 and continue to serve many of those same clients today. With our flexibility and responsiveness, we were able to take on a large amount of work following and helping the citizens of Harris County recover from Hurricane Alicia in 1983. Jamail & Smith continued to perform mostly public sector work through the 1980’s and in 1992 added facility maintenance and repair as a specialty and the semiconductor industry as a client. In 1997 we played a key role in helping Texaco convert their convenience stores with a “new look” and began building health and nursing care facilities throughout the State. The experience and expertise developed in managing a large number of smaller projects led directly into our entry into the Job Order Contracting business in 1999. Our founder, James Jamail, is the third generation of a family that has been a part of the Houston business landscape for over 100 years.

As we’ve grown we continue to diversify our client base and develop our infrastructure to support sustained excellent performance. We were early to adopt value-based construction delivery systems and are now specializing in Job Order Contracting (JOC) and the various derivatives of that concept. We are currently operating fifteen JOC’s for Universities, K-12 School Districts, Counties, and Cities in Texas. We also operate an active subcontracting and general contracting practice focusing on municipal and school renovations and repairs. In addition, Jamail & Smith is the preferred constructor for two independent developers of commercial property.

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