For most of my career, I ran a traditional General Contractor (GC)/Construction Manager model in my business. However, after some time, I felt that our results and success were being limited within the confines of the traditional AEC industry. This feeling started a journey spanning multiple industries and years – one that would permanently change the lens of my work.
Read MoreBehind the Stitch — The Tradespeople Who Make the Impossible Possible
Tradespeople are a vital part of every construction project, but at Creature, our in-house trades teams are the crux of our strategy. Our unique building platform demands the entire team, from our designers to our tradespeople, be tenacious, strategic, and innovative. It’s that integration, that continuous feedback loop, throughout the entirety of each project that ensures we can deliver the seamless, speed-sensitive, high-quality capital projects that our healthcare and corporate clients come to us for.
Read More4 Signs Design-Build is Right for Your Project
How do you know if your project could be streamlined using design-build methodology? In this article, we break down the things that should be true about your project if you’d like to capitalize on this construction method — and how Creature can bring even more speed, cost-effectiveness, and overall efficiency to your project through our unique platform.
Read MoreConstruction Without Friction
The traditional AEC construction model – its cost structure and resource management – are not built to deliver the streamlined, seamless process that we strive to. So, we looked outside the traditional. We became advocates for and experts in the untraditional.
Read MoreCreature + BLOX
Our work creating healthcare clinics built on a 60-day timeline continues with Birmingham-based DMC company BLOX in Kissimmee, Brandon, and Ocoee Florida as well as Katy, Texas. The BLOX business model pushes the known restraints of what prefabricated design and manufacturing can produce by utilizing incremental sections of space called ubers to facilitate consistent design nationwide.
Read MoreCreature Projects Around The Southeast
As Creature experiences growth, our construction sites are expanding. Creature project teams can be found working on projects in Downtown Birmingham, Mountainbrook, AL, Birmingham Shuttlesworth Airport, Jacksonville, Florida and soon to be Katy, Texas. Here are some fun projects we are building.
Renovation of Private Airplane Hangar at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport
Private Residence in Mountainbrook, AL
Premanufactured Medical Clinic With BLOX in Jacksonville, FL
Mercantile Arises
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and for this blog we are going to let the following images speak for themselves. We hope you enjoy this project as much as we have, and we cannot wait to share more.
Plaza View From 1st Avenue North
Residential Mail Room
4th Floor Residential Party Deck
Unit Bathroom
Unit Kitchen
Unit Living Room
Unit Bathroom
Custom Residential Curtain Wall
Custom Residential Curtain Wall
Unit Kitchen
Unit Bathroom
Unit Bedroom
Unit Kitchen
Corridor Threshold
Mercantile on Morris - January 2020
How It Started vs How It's Going
Mercantile on Morris - February 2021
Christ Fellowship Church Phase 2
Phase 2 of the award-winning Christ Fellowship Church renovation begins construction. Phase 2 of this project includes the addition of a multi-purpose facility, banquet prep facilities, additional childcare classrooms, and offices in an upstairs suite.
Our construction team has been working on getting all underground work into place - foundations and plumbing - and framing walls.
Construction is expected to be complete at the end of March, in time for the church to celebrate Easter in their new space.
Custom Curtain Walls
Integrated Design Build has proven to be the most efficient way to deliver exceptional products within exceptional timelines with exceptional people.
This photograph represents a daily interaction you can find at any Creature project. Our designers, contractors, and installers meet over the design of a custom steel curtain wall assembly. By creating a bridge from the architecture team directly to the construction team allows us to make more informed decisions in less time. When repeated throughout thousands of decisions made on every project, we save our team and our clients months of time typically lost in traditional communicate methods.
Above: Creature is working with local steel fabricator Adam Bodine on custom curtain wall systems for Mercantile on Morris.
The curtain wall seen below is 14 feet tall and frames a wonderful view towards downtown Birmingham.
