About Us


“The Complex - Simply Done”


General Constructors, Inc. is the leader of self-performing General Contractor services in Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois. From the first day that GCI was opened by Jim Hayne and Mike Howard in 1994, the Company has continued to grow and improve our capabilities offered to our Clients. Today, as an employee owned company, we continue to provide world-class construction services, including General Contracting, Design-Build, Construction Management, and Subcontracting.

Our long-standing core values are honesty, fairness, performance, hard work and innovation. These values define who we are, and our Craftsmen, Supervisors, and Managers live these out on a daily basis.

We understand our customers' expectations: creative solutions to their construction needs that meet the quality required, as well as, cost effective and safe implementation of those solutions within the budget and on schedule. They expect us to bring value to the table and we do. We maintain a qualified self-performing work force, a fleet of effective construction equipment, plus a full complement of seasoned professionals ready to get to work and exceed these expectations.

These resources, applied with innovative planning, are how we achieve safe productivity for the benefit of our clients. The development of innovative solutions to what are often complex challenges. This is what we have termed “The Complex - Simply Done”.