Commercial Building Trade Bids
Public buildings need every trade: drywall, flooring, doors, windows, roofing, painting. Courthouses, fire stations, libraries, community centers. Solid institutional work with real budgets and owners who pay.
Finding building trade work in public bids
Building projects come from city facilities departments, county commissioners, state building authorities. The postings don't always call out specific trades by name. A "courthouse renovation" might have $200K of drywall work, but you won't know that from the listing. You have to read specs to know if there's work for you, or you can filter by CSI division and let us surface the relevant jobs.
Structural and exterior trades
Structural steel, misc metals, railings, stairs. Steel-framed buildings need erectors. Commercial roofing, below-grade waterproofing, air barriers. Public buildings have big flat roofs that need replacing on 20-year cycles. When a county decides to re-roof the courthouse, that's steady six-figure work for roofing contractors. Filter by Division 05 or Division 07 to find these projects.
Interior finishes and openings
Drywall, acoustical ceilings, flooring, painting, hollow metal frames, wood doors, aluminum storefronts. Interior finishes are where building trades spend most of their time. Schools and offices have acres of drywall. Every building has doors and windows. Institutional buildings have a lot of them. Division 08 and Division 09 work is steady because every public building project needs these trades.
Public building projects
Fire stations, police buildings, libraries, community centers, courthouses, city halls, park shelters. Municipal buildings get funded through capital budgets and bond issues. When cities build, they need every trade from structural steel to paint. These are good clients: real budgets, established processes, and they pay their contractors.
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