Strickland Construction Company

What Strickland Construction Company does

Strickland Construction Company is a privately held design-build general contractor headquartered in Olathe, Kansas, delivering commercial and industrial construction projects across the greater Kansas City area and broader Midwest. Founded in 1980 by Rogers Strickland, a U.S. Air Force veteran, the firm began with a five-person team building metal farm buildings in Raytown, Missouri before relocating to Kansas and broadening into manufacturing facilities, warehouses, offices, churches, recreational facilities, self-storage, retail, agribusiness, institutional, and auto storage projects. The company serves enterprise and nonprofit/NGO clients across at least five verticals with a value-engineering design-build approach, including post-construction services such as free roof repairs for the life of the building and re-roofing for storm damage.

The firm's technical stack is anchored on a four-decade partnership with Butler Manufacturing, through which Strickland has sold more than $50 million of Butler products. Projects incorporate Butlerib II metal panels (with up to 8% more steel than industry-standard profiles), MR-24 standing-seam roof systems designed for Midwest thermal cycling, Butler-Cote paint systems using Kynar 500 or Hylar 5000 finishes, and factory pre-punched structural components that reduce on-site assembly time. The service delivery model follows a four-stage process — Design, Planning, Construction, and Post-Construction — under a single point of responsibility to minimize scope changes and compress schedules.

Strickland generates revenue through project-based commercial construction contracts priced per project scope, with a direct sales-led GTM motion engaging clients by phone, website contact form, and referral. The firm is owner-operated with three principals: Rogers Strickland (CEO/Owner), Eric Hughes (President/Owner), and Jacqueline Doherty (COO/Owner), supported by senior project developers, project managers, and field superintendents. Marketing is primarily relationship- and referral-driven, supplemented by a content-marketing website, blog, and community-engagement activities including an annual YMCA charity golf tournament (raising $775,000+ since 2003) and 55 international mission-built community facilities across six countries.

Name

Strickland Construction Company

Legal name

Strickland Construction, LLC

Website

https://stricklandconstruction.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Strickland Construction Company is a privately held, owner-operated design-build general contractor in Olathe, Kansas, delivering commercial and industrial construction projects across the Midwest for manufacturing, warehouse, office, religious, recreational, and nonprofit clients using Butler Manufacturing building systems.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Construction Services

NAICS

Commercial and Institutional Building Construction (236220), Industrial Building Construction (236210)

SIC

General Bldg Contractors - Nonresidential Bldgs (1540)

akta.pro primary industry

Office & Corporate Building Construction (IMAFACAA)

Keywords

• Commercial construction
• Design-build services
• Industrial construction
• Pre-engineered buildings
• Value engineering

Headquarters

HQ city

Olathe

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Commercial Construction Services: Full-service general contracting for commercial and industrial construction projects including design, planning, construction, and post-construction phases. Revenue is generated through project-based construction contracts with fees based on project scope, materials, and labor.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Strickland Construction Company provides commercial and industrial construction services across the Midwest, with a focus on design-build delivery and value engineering for warehouses, manufacturing facilities, offices, churches, recreational facilities, agribusiness structures, self-storage, and retail properties. Founded in 1980, the firm handles design, planning, construction, and post-construction phases, and partners with Butler Manufacturing for pre-engineered metal building systems.

Product overview

Strickland Construction Company is a commercial and industrial construction firm offering an integrated suite of services including Design, Planning, Construction, and Post-Construction services delivered through a design-build approach. The company specializes in value engineering and energy-efficient building solutions. Their service portfolio encompasses project types including commercial and industrial construction, office buildings, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, churches, recreational facilities, self-storage, retail, agribusiness, institutional, auto storage, and re-roofing services. Through a partnership with Butler Manufacturing, they incorporate premium building materials including Butlerib II panels, MR-24 roof systems, and Butler-Cote paint systems. The company operates from concept to completion, providing single-source responsibility for their construction projects throughout the greater Kansas City area and Midwest region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Design-Build Construction Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced project changes through design-build approach with single source of responsibility
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers23 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Butler ManufacturingcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 1980Strickland Construction has partnered with Butler Manufacturing since 1980, selling more than $50 million worth of Butler products. Butler Manufacturing supplies innovative, cutting-edge, and high-quality construction materials including Butlerib II panels, MR-24 roof systems, and Butler-Cote paint systems. Butler has supplied construction materials to top companies nationwide for 120 years.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• JE Dunn Construction: Headquartered in Kansas City, JE Dunn is one of the largest privately held general contractors in the U.S. with a strong Midwest base and broad commercial/institutional portfolio. It is the most directly comparable peer — same home market, similar delivery model, similar vertical mix.
• The Weitz Company: Privately held U.S. GC with strong design-build delivery and significant industrial/commercial project portfolio. Comparable scale to Strickland and similar orientation toward value-engineered design-build delivery for industrial and commercial clients.

Regional players

• Burns & McDonnell: Kansas City-based engineering, architecture, and construction firm with strong industrial and commercial project execution. Directly comparable geography and customer overlap with Strickland, though its primary identity is engineering/design rather than design-build GC.

Broad incumbents

• Turner Construction Company: One of the largest commercial GCs in the U.S., with deep capabilities across offices, healthcare, education, and industrial sectors. Competes with Strickland for larger commercial and institutional projects but at substantially greater scale and geographic reach.
• Whiting-Turner Contracting Company: Major U.S. general contractor with national reach across commercial, industrial, and institutional construction. Comparable delivery model and customer types, but at enterprise scale well beyond Strickland's Midwest-anchored footprint.
• Gilbane Building Company: Large privately held U.S. GC with strong commercial, institutional, and industrial portfolio. Comparable in customer mix (manufacturing, offices, public/institutional) and design-build orientation, but with significantly broader geographic and scale footprint.
• McCarthy Building Companies: National GC with established industrial, commercial, and renewable/energy practices. Comparable in design-build delivery and customer overlap (industrial, manufacturing), with substantially larger scale and national reach.
• M.A. Mortenson Construction: Privately held U.S. general contractor with broad commercial, industrial, and renewable energy capabilities. Comparable delivery model (design-build) and customer types, with substantially greater scale and geographic diversification.
• Holder Construction Company: Privately held U.S. GC with strong design-build orientation across corporate, industrial, and mission-critical construction. Comparable delivery philosophy and customer types, at substantially larger enterprise scale and national footprint.

Others

• Butler Manufacturing (BlueScope Buildings): Strickland's primary materials partner and supplier of pre-engineered metal building systems. Not a direct competitor but a deeply strategic ecosystem relationship — Butler products are embedded in Strickland's value proposition and differentiated energy-efficiency pitch.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/strickland-construction

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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