Vancouver, WA · Construction
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Office and warehouse. General Contractor - Westmore Construction.
Crane lifts, steel buildings, and commercial construction for Vancouver contractors, businesses, and homeowners, all from one company.
Two divisions cover Vancouver: operated crane service, and steel buildings raised under a commercial general contracting agreement. Crane and Rigging sends operated lifts, 55 to 350 tons, rigging supplied and an NCCCO certified operator running the machine: rooftop HVAC units, structural steel picks, machinery sets, hot tubs and swim spas. Construction and Steel puts up the buildings, raising pre-engineered metal structures, erecting structural steel, and finishing the exterior as commercial general contractor, with construction management available for owners who want the oversight and keep the trade contracts themselves. Warehouses, manufacturing and food plants, offices, and tenant improvements are the usual work here, and the company carries active contractor licensing on both sides of the state line.
The first thing to settle is which of the two divisions you actually need. A single pick, a rooftop unit, a spa, a machinery set, goes straight to Crane and Rigging and gets priced off crane class and access. A building, an addition, or a tenant fit-out goes to Construction and Steel, and the picks inside it are carried in that scope instead of being ordered on the side. Plenty of Vancouver jobs turn out to be both, which is the easy case: one project, one schedule, and the lift dates written into the build. Send the address, the load weight or the project scope, and a couple of photos of the approach.
Two divisions, six entry points: hire a crane and its operator for one pick, or hand over the building and let the picks come with it.
Operated lifts with the operator and the rigging included, sized from your load and the room the crane has to work in.
Pre-engineered frames and steel erection for warehouses, shops, and expansions onto shells that stay occupied.
One team holding the schedule, the subcontractors, and the inspections while you keep the trade contracts yourself.
Rooftop unit changeouts scheduled around tenant hours so the building keeps running through the swap.
Over the fence or over the roof and down onto the pad, with the truck set where the street allows it.
Beams, panels, transformers, and vaults rigged and placed by NCCCO certified operators carrying their own gear.
A good share of Vancouver industrial work happens in space somebody else owns. A tenant needs the bay extended, the shell re-skinned, or a mezzanine framed, and the property owner carries conditions of its own about work hours, roof penetrations, and which part of the yard a crane is allowed to occupy. Those conditions sit on the schedule alongside the city's, and discovering them late is what stretches a two-week frame into a two-month one.
So Westmore asks who else has to sign before anything gets priced. With the lease conditions in hand, the erection order, the lay-down plan, and the crane dates can be drawn once and taken up the chain as a single package rather than three separate requests. Bring the lease exhibit covering alterations to the first conversation and the rest of it moves quickly.
On plenty of Vancouver jobs another contractor already has the site and needs the steel package raised and closed in. Westmore comes on for that scope alone and works to the sequence that contractor has set, with no attempt to take over the schedule. It is the common arrangement on tenant improvements and industrial additions where the rest of the trades are already lined up.
On the others Westmore holds the contract as commercial general contractor and carries the job from preconstruction through closeout, subcontractors and inspections included. An owner who wants that same oversight but wants the trade contracts to stay in their own name takes the team as construction management instead. Say which of the three shapes you have in mind at the first conversation, and the proposal comes back written that way.
A crane working the Vancouver waterfront has to fit into movement that does not pause for it. The terminals there carry direct BNSF and Union Pacific service, so a rigging job at a tenant building gets its window built around rail crossings and marshaling yard trucks before anybody writes the rigging plan. Treat that as a scheduling question rather than a lifting one and the day goes smoothly.
It is also why the crew asks early for a site contact who can speak for the gate. Knowing the hour the yard can genuinely be held open is worth more to a heavy pick than an extra hour of crane time, and it decides whether the load lands in a clean gap or sits waiting on a locked approach. Have that name and number ready when you call.
The Vancouver jobs that get complicated are the ones that are both: a building going up and a run of picks that have to happen inside it. Bought as two separate scopes, those calendars drift apart. The erector waits on a machine, the machine waits on a slab, and neither company owns the gap between them. Bought here they are one scope, one schedule, and one person to call the day something moves.
It works the other direction too. A contractor who wants nothing but the crane gets exactly that, priced off class and access, with no obligation attached to the rest of the project. Name which of the two you are after on the first call, or say you have not decided, and the division that fits answers rather than the one that happened to pick up.
Vancouver, WA · Construction
Office and warehouse. General Contractor - Westmore Construction.
Vancouver, WA · Construction
Commercial office and warehouse. General Contractor - Westmore Construction.
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"We have did multiple projects across the greater Clark County WA area with Warren and his team, from picking our transformer or vaults or any craning needs we have. Fast, efficient, but at the same time very safe with their walk arounds and set up procedures, making sure everything is in the right order. Highly recommend them to anyone needing reputable crane services."
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"Great people to work with. We have worked with both sides, the construction team and the crane services and have been absolutely amazed with the professionalism and their communication skills. We get to hire their crane fairly often for picking larger concrete vaults and they are always quick to respond with timing and pricing for each project. We wouldn't want to use anyone else!"
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"Westmore Construction is a very honest and trustworthy crew. That is why we selected them as our general contractor and our pre-engineered metal building installer for our commercial project. They worked well with all the permitting staff, inspectors, and subcontractors. They worked hard to keep our project moving through the entire process and they cared about our timeline for completion. Plus, their entire team communicated well and timely. What more could you really ask for in a GC? I would highly recommend Westmore Construction and I would hire them again if we have a chance to develop another property in the future."
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Yes. Crane and construction work covers the whole city plus the areas that carry a Vancouver address, Salmon Creek, Hazel Dell, Felida, Cascade Park, Fisher's Landing, Fruit Valley, Five Corners, Minnehaha, and Walnut Grove among them. The cranes and crews that show up are the same in any of them. What changes is the permit path when a setup occupies a city street.
By air. The crane parks where the street allows, the boom carries the tub above the roof, and the load comes down onto the pad without a fence panel or a gate post coming out. Roof height, the distance from the truck to the pad, and where the truck can legally park decide which machine comes. A photo from the curb and the tub's weight settle it.
Rarely, once it is checked. Most of Vancouver is flat and takes outriggers well. Sites close to the water are the exception, because fill and soft soil can move under outrigger pads that concentrate the whole machine into four points. The crew looks at the setup area first and brings mats or cribbing when the surface needs spreading. A photo of the pad area answers most of it.
The setup location decides it. A lift on private ground with room for the machine has no permit ahead of it. Anything that occupies a public street waits on City of Vancouver Public Works. Steel and mechanical lifts inside a build get dated during preconstruction with the rest of the schedule. Send the load weight, the address, and a photo of the setup area.
A commercial general contractor signs the subcontracts, runs the site day to day, carries the schedule and the budget, and answers for the finished building. On a Vancouver project Westmore takes that role, raising the steel and running the cranes with its own crews, then bringing in subcontractors it already works with for the trades outside that scope. The company holds active Washington and Oregon licensing.
Washington contractor license WESTMCL836OJ and Oregon CCB 234945, both active, backed by $1 million of liability insurance in each state. The Washington license is active with no violations. Every crane operator holds NCCCO certification. A City of Vancouver street use permit requires proof of insurance naming the city, and that certificate goes in with the filing.
Every one of these neighborhoods gets the same crews, cranes, and construction teams as a downtown or waterfront job.
Describe the lift or the build, where in Vancouver it sits, and when it has to be finished, and the right division answers with a scope.
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