The DempseyGill leadership team at a steel-frame commercial project at sunset

Our firm

The people behind the work.

Behind the process is a team you will actually work with. The same people who establish the budget before design remain accountable from the first number through the final walkthrough.

Who we are

Based
Spring, Texas
Serving
Texas
Delivery
Plan to ribbon cutting, one contract

The names on the contract.

DempseyGill is a commercial construction firm based in Spring, Texas. We are not a national company with a local office. We are the people who answer the phone, walk the site, and put our name on the contract.

Only about one-fifth of the job is the building itself. The business plan, budget, permitting strategy, and other critical decisions come first. That is where projects are often won or lost.

We take responsibility for the entire process, so the owner is never left managing the gaps between an architect and a contractor who answer to separate contracts.

Our leadership team brings decades of experience on Houston-area job sites and one clear commitment: the building you approve is the building we deliver.

How we work

The relationship outlasts the building.

Most of our work comes from owners we have already built for. Mustang CAT has brought us back facility after facility. That kind of repeat work is not won with a proposal. It is earned on the last job.

Getting there means telling you things you may not want to hear. Before we draw anything, we look at whether the project makes sense for your business. Sometimes it does not. We have told owners to sell the land rather than build on it. That costs us a job and earns the next three.

We also do not disappear at the ribbon cutting. We call before the 11-month warranty window closes and walk the building while there is still time to address what is covered. First-year maintenance is included. The people who priced your job are the same people who answer the phone two years later.

The team

The people you’ll actually work with.

One point of contact, supported by a team with experience delivering commercial projects across Greater Houston. Tap any face to read their story.

  • Portrait of Jeff Johnston

    Leadership

    Jeff Johnston

    President

    Jeff spent two decades in senior roles at major Houston builders before starting DempseyGill on one idea: put the owner’s interests ahead of the process, from the first estimate to the final walk-through. He’ll tell you if it’s a bad idea before you spend money finding out.

  • Portrait of Greg Yates

    Leadership

    Greg Yates

    VP of Operations

    More than thirty years as a general contractor across Houston and the surrounding counties, on work from $200K to $20M. If it’s been built around here, Greg has run one like it.

  • Portrait of Sam Moore

    Leadership

    Sam Moore

    VP of Project Management

    Fifteen years in construction operations, on projects from $1.5M to $135M — including work for the University of Houston, Rice, and Texas Children’s Hospital.

  • Portrait of Brian Cudd

    Leadership

    Brian Cudd

    VP of Business Development

    Brian’s background runs from engineering to technology integration to commercial construction. He builds the client relationship the way the firm builds everything else: open-book, on the business case, aligned before the work starts.

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