General Contractor in Beverly Hills

I walk the property myself before anyone writes a number. The estimate that follows is built against real scope: demolition, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, finishes, and the site conditions we found that day. You get a line-item breakdown, a stage schedule tied to named milestones, and one point of contact for the whole project.

Field discipline is the rest of it. One lead on site daily. Photo documentation at every stage. Trades sequenced so the house is never sitting open between them. Change requests go in writing before the work happens, never after.

Full kitchen and bath remodels. Whole-home renovation on flats properties where the original floor plan no longer fits how the family lives. Additions and second-story work. Exterior repaint and stucco, which sits under our C-33 classification. Roofing coordination, hardscape, and the structural work that older Beverly Hills housing stock usually reveals once walls come open.

Older homes in the flats hide things. Knob and tube behind plaster. Cast iron drain lines at the end of their service life. Framing that was altered twice before you owned the house. We open a wall, photograph what is there, and bring you the finding the same day with options scoped against the original agreement.

This is the part most owners get wrong. Beverly Hills runs its own permit process. The city runs its own Building and Safety Division inside the Community Development Department, staffed with plan review engineers, architects, permitting staff, and building inspectors, and it processes permits through its own City Smart portal. A crew that only knows the LADBS workflow learns that on your house, on your schedule.

Approved construction hours are Monday through Friday, 8 am to 6 pm, and construction is not authorized on holidays. That window shapes everything. We sequence loud work, deliveries, and inspections inside it and plan staffing around it from the first week.

The city splits single-family standards into three areas, each with its own article of the Zoning Code. Article 24 governs the Central Area. Article 25 governs the Hillside Area, adding landform alteration and view preservation. Article 26 governs Trousdale Estates, including standards for construction related to level pads. Verify your address on the city zoning map before assuming which set applies to you.

Design review is the other split. In the Central Area, work visible from the public street can trigger it, including a new house, a facade remodel, window replacement, and painting. Those projects run as Track 1, a staff-level review by the city's Urban Designer, or Track 2, a review by the Design Review Commission. Track 1 requires two things: a project designed by an architect licensed in California, and a design the city's Urban Designer judges to be a pure architectural style under the Beverly Hills Single Family Style Guide. Miss either one and the project goes to Track 2. There is no design review process in the Hillside Area of the city.

Trousdale changes the build itself. Pad and grading standards under Article 26 mean the design works with the existing pad rather than around it. Narrow hillside streets mean staging, deliveries, and neighbor access get planned before demolition, not during it. We bring that plan to the walkthrough instead of discovering it in week three.

Free on-site estimate. I walk the property, measure, and hand you real scope in writing. Call (949) 558-9738.