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Professional Results.
Delivering Successful Projects
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Why Choose Us
When you choose Synergy Builders, LLC as your general contractor, you gain
the confidence in knowing that you have teamed with a partner that has more
than 160 years of combined experience in commercial, multifamily, renovation
and tenant improvement projects.
Our skilled and knowledgeable project managers work with you to fully understand
the objectives of your project, outline the process and help you understand any
potential risks. We pride ourselves on being a very active team player from the
early stages of project through project completion.
We have a proven track record in delivering successful projects. Choosing Synergy
Builders gives you the specialized skill you require and the personalized attention
you deserve to complete your construction project as efficiently and cost effectively
as possible. We look forward to exceeding your expectations.
“Synergy Builders values its clients from the time of
consultation through post-construction.”
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About Synergy Builders, LLC
At Synergy Builders, successful projects and satisfied clients are what we value
most. In fact, this philosophy led to our humble beginnings.
Synergy Builders, LLC was founded in 2010 by Sam Riesgraf. Throughout his 17year career in the construction industry, Sam had developed relationships with
clients throughout the Twin Cities area. His reputation for performing high quality
work made it easy for these clients to trust him time and time again with their
ongoing construction needs – and to become clients of his new company.
You’ll benefit from our extensive commercial construction
experience.
Over the next four years, Sam and his team worked hard to continue to grow the
business. In 2014, Synergy Builders joined forces with Schaefer Richardson, a
commercial real estate, development, management and leasing and investment
services company founded in 1995. Merging their construction operations allowed
both companies to increase their overall market presence and capabilities. Since
that time, the company has experienced an average growth of 60% annually and
now works in a variety of market sectors including multi-family housing, senior
living, hospitality, medical, industrial and commercial spaces.
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Our Core Values
Building Trust
Bringing our Best
Building trust means that we take actionable
steps every day to build trust amongst our clients,
vendors and colleagues.
Providing your best work product in all areas - it
doesn’t mean you are perfect, but that you always
strive to produce your “best”. It is an attitude of
‘Ownership’ of your work product that says “I’m
putting my name on this”.
It might mean that you need to solicit advice
from colleagues in order to make sure that your
assumptions or knowledge are correct. It means
that you are willing to listen to others opinions and
thoughts on ways to do things better.
It means that we search out steps, phone calls,
actions that we can take that will benefit our clients
in our working relationships. Taking time to listen
to people, find out what is important to them; hear
what their concerns or fears are - and then address
those . fears for them are critical.
An understanding that, in the end, our reputation is
built on our trustworthiness and on whether people
“want” to work with us.
Putting People First
People work with who they like. We put people
first, because, if nothing else our job is to manage
people’s expectations. We cannot understand their
expectations or their concerns if we do not take
the time to understand them as a person.
Putting people first means that we work hard to
get past the ‘business only’ relationship and work
to know them as a person. Lastly, putting people
first means that we put others ahead of ourselves,
seeking first to understand their situation and
conflict with a desire to solve a problem together,
as opposed to us ‘winning’ the issue.
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Committed to Continual
Improvement
We have a lot of good competition in the marketplace of the Twin Cities. There are a lot of competent and qualified GC’s.
Every person in the company MUST commit themselves to constant improvement - in a variety of
skillsets including: communication, networking,
marketing, work product, timeliness, technology
and general construction knowledge.
This is more about having an attitude that wants to
search out ways to improve, with an understanding
that none of us has arrived.
Our People
Sam Riesgraf
Riesgraf
Sam
President
President
Mike Kuehn
Kuehn
Mike
Project Manager
Manager
Project
Mike has been in
construction for more
than 15 years with
experience in project
management and
design overseeing all
phases of projects.
He has ample
experience managing
various project types
including multi-family,
education, healthcare
and hospitality
He has managed
simultaneously
all phases of
executing multiple
the construction
large-scale
process from preconstruction through commercial projects
construction and final with budgets ranging
from $200K to $16M.
closeout. Sam has
extensive estimating Mike has a proven
history of on-time,
experience, and his
on-budget and high
value engineering
quality execution.
skill set proves
he always has the
customer’s best
interest in mind.
Sam is the founding
Owner of Synergy
Builders and
an experienced
project manager
with expertise
in numerous
construction project
types throughout the
Midwest construction
market.
Bud Augst
Bud
Augst
Superintendent
Superintendent
Bud has been a
Superintendent in the
construction industry
for more than 45
years. His experience
ranges from working
in the hospitality
sector to healthcare
to multi-family
and many more
industry segments.
Bud prides
himself as being
a skilled logistics
coordinator, effective
communicator and
efficient scheduler.
He also exhibits
innovative thinking,
attention to detail
and knowledge
in all phases of
construction.
JohnWawack
Wawack
John
Superintendent
Senior Project
Manager
GregChaffin
Chaffin
Greg
Operations
Operations
Manager
Manager
Greg is an
accomplished
business executive
with a legacy of
demonstrated
leadership and
management
experience. He has
vast knowledge
and understanding
He has managed
of the construction
all phases of the
construction process and industry with
from pre-construction a unique ability to
through construction motivate teams and
and to final closeout. expedite project
schedules. He
John has immense
possesses strong
experience in
communication
estimating, value
engineering and
and leadership
project management. skills in developing,
mentoring, and
leading high
performance
professionals with
diverse business
and technical
backgrounds that
consistently exceed
expectations.
John is Senior
Project Manager
with expertise
in numerous
construction project
types throughout the
Midwest construction
market.
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Our Experience
Visit www.synergybuilders.net/project-gallery
www.synergybuilders.net/project-gallery to
to learn
learn more
more about
about our
our recent
recent projects.
projects.
Visit
730 Lofts
Project: 13 story hi-rise with 111
units of for sale condos in the
North Loop of Minneapolis
Architect: Urban Works
Architecture
Value: $25,600,000 (2008)
Project Size: 111 units
Edgewater
Project: 300+ units in a
retirement community with
luxury amenities including
full service restaurant, library,
creative arts studio, fitness
center and indoor pool.
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Our Experience
Visit www.synergybuilders.net/project-gallery to learn more about our recent projects.
Sibley Court Apartments
The Curtis
Project: 121 unit market rate and
affordable rental apartments
Architect: KKE Architects
Value: $13,900,000 (2004)
Project Size: 121 units
Project: 13 unit market rate apartment
on infill site
Architect: Wells & Company
Value: $2,200,000
Project Size: 13 units
Endurance Student Housing
Victoria Flats
Project: 33 Unit Student apartments in
the heart of Dinkytown
Architect: Wells & Company
Value: $3,650,000
Project Size: 33 units
Project: Victoria MN, Ground up 81 unit
market rate rental apartments with two
levels underground parking
Architect: Momentum Design Group
Value: $12,254,000
Project Size: 81 units
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Let’s build something together.
Synergy Builders LLC
901 N. 3rd Street
Suite 309
Minneapolis, MN 55401
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