COMMERCIAL SUBCONTRACTOR JERSEY CITY, NJ

Commercial Metal Framing in Jersey City, NJ

Structural steel, metal deck and steel stud framing for Jersey City towers, mid-rises and redevelopment sites, built to hold the schedule.

20+ years of experience
Quality work
On schedule

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Working in Jersey City

Jersey City has turned into one of the busiest construction markets in the region. The Hudson River waterfront from Exchange Place up through Newport is lined with residential and office towers, and the redevelopment push around Journal Square has brought a new wave of multifamily and mixed-use buildings along Kennedy Boulevard. Downtown, Paulus Hook and Harsimus Cove keep producing infill projects on narrow lots between older brick buildings.

That mix means a framing sub here has to be comfortable on very different jobs. One week it is structural steel columns and beams going up on a podium; the next it is light gauge interior partitions on a tenant floor of a waterfront tower, or load-bearing steel wall panels on a five-story building near the Light Rail. Our crews have worked in Jersey City setting structural steel posts and beams, including winter work when the steel was cold and the deliveries were tight.

Dos Santos Construction LLC is a commercial subcontractor based in Kenilworth, NJ, with 20+ years of experience in metal framing. We work for general contractors, developers and owners' reps, and the two things we are judged on are the quality of the installed work and staying on the schedule we commit to.

Steel posts and beams set during winter conditions on a Jersey City NJ jobsite

What a Jersey City jobsite actually asks of the framing crew

Most Jersey City sites have little or no laydown area. Steel, deck bundles and stud packs usually have to arrive in sequence and get picked straight off the truck, so we plan delivery windows around the GC's crane time and any street occupancy the city allows. On blocks near the PATH stations and the Light Rail, traffic and pedestrian control drive the whole morning.

Large parts of the waterfront and Downtown sit in mapped flood zones, so ground-floor framing often has to follow flood-resistant construction requirements set by the design team. We coordinate with the engineer of record on materials and connection details at those levels and leave the code interpretation to the architect and the local building department under the New Jersey Uniform Construction Code.

Wind off the river matters too. Deck and wall panels on upper floors need to be secured at the end of every shift, and some lifts simply wait for the gusts to calm down. We would rather lose an hour than lose a bundle off the edge.

What we install in Jersey City

Scopes we bring to Jersey City projects

Why GCs bring us onto Jersey City projects

Kenilworth is a short run up the Turnpike to Jersey City, so our crews and foremen are on site early and know how the morning traffic into Hudson County behaves. That proximity makes it practical to cover a delivery change or add hands when a floor needs to close out.

We work Monday through Saturday, 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and we plan our sequence around the GC's schedule rather than asking the job to plan around us. Layout gets checked before material goes up, punch items get handled while the crew is still on the floor, and the foreman keeps the super informed every day.

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Areas and landmarks we work around

Downtown
Exchange Place
Newport
Paulus Hook
Harsimus Cove
Journal Square
The Heights
Bergen-Lafayette
Greenville
West Side

Questions from Jersey City GCs

Planning a job here? Read our Commercial Construction in Jersey City, NJ: A Framing and Steel Planning Guide for GCs.

Yes. We can set structural steel and metal deck and then come back for the light or heavy gauge framing, which keeps one framing contractor accountable for layout from the slab up. That helps on Jersey City podium buildings where steel, deck and load-bearing walls all tie together. Scope is always set by the drawings and the bid package, so we price exactly what the GC needs us to carry and spell out what is excluded.

We break material into deliveries that match what the crew can install or the crane can pick in a shift, and we time them with the GC's logistics plan and any street occupancy the city allows. On sites near Exchange Place or Journal Square there is often no room to stage, so we pick off the truck where possible. Getting the sequence agreed at the start avoids trucks waiting and crews standing around.

We frame buildings in flood-prone parts of the city by following the flood-resistant details that the architect and engineer of record put on the drawings, such as material choices and connections at lower levels. We do not make code calls ourselves. If something on site does not match the drawings, we raise an RFI through the GC before installing, so the inspection with the local building department goes smoothly.

It depends on the drawings, the submittal review and the GC's overall schedule. Once we have a set we can bid, we turn around pricing, then work through submittals and shop drawings as needed. When approvals are in and the area is ready for us, we confirm a start date and crew size with the super. We will tell you honestly if our current workload affects that date.