General Contractor in Utah County
Renew Construction is a licensed general contractor serving homeowners across Utah County. We take on projects that require permits, structural work, licensed trades, and coordination across multiple crews. That includes home additions, load-bearing changes, garage conversions, and full-scope residential builds where one person needs to own the schedule, the budget, and the inspections.
If your project involves more than one trade or requires a building permit, you need a general contractor. We handle both.
What a General Contractor Does
A general contractor is the single point of accountability on a construction project. On a Renew Construction project, that means we:
- Pull permits with the correct city or county building department
- Hire, schedule, and supervise licensed subcontractors including electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and framing
- Order materials and manage lead times so trades are not waiting on deliveries
- Schedule and attend inspections at each required stage
- Track the budget against the signed scope and flag changes before they become invoices
- Warranty the finished work as one contract rather than five separate ones
Without a general contractor, the homeowner takes on every one of these responsibilities. That works on small projects, but it doesn’t work well once framing, electrical, and mechanical trades need to be sequenced around inspections.
How We Work
Walkthrough and estimate
We visit your home, discuss your goals and budget candidly, and provide a written estimate with real numbers rather than a teaser figure that grows once the work begins.
Design and planning
We finalize the scope, materials, and schedule, and we pull the permits. Cities like Lehi, Orem, and Provo each enforce their own requirements, and we navigate them on a regular basis.
Construction
A single project lead runs your job. They keep you informed, keep the site clean, and keep subcontractors on schedule.
Final walkthrough
You inspect every part of the project with us before we consider it complete.
General Contracting Services We Provide
Home Additions
Room additions, second-story additions, and garage conversions. Additions require foundation work, structural tie-ins to the existing home, and mechanical systems that can carry the added load.
Structural Modifications
Removing load-bearing walls, adding beams and posts, opening up floor plans, and reframing to support new layouts.
Whole-Home Remodeling
Multi-room and full-house projects where several trades work in sequence. See our remodeling page for more information.
Basement Finishing
Finishing unfinished basement space, including egress windows, framing, and full mechanical rough-in. See our basement finishing page for details.
Kitchen and Bathroom Remodeling
Projects that move plumbing, add circuits, or change the footprint. Visit our bathroom remodeling page for more.
Repairs and Smaller Projects
Work that does not require full general contracting oversight.
Licensed and Insured General Contractor in Utah
Renew Construction holds an active Utah contractor license through the Division of Professional Licensing and carries insurance. We provide current license and insurance documentation before work begins on any project.
We also require that every subcontractor on our projects carries their own licensing and insurance. That protects you if something goes wrong on site, and it means the trades working in your home are held to the same standard we hold ourselves to.
If you want to verify our license independently, Utah’s DOPL maintains a public license lookup that anyone can search. You can find us by searching for “Renew Construction LLC” or by using our license number: 14279896-5501.
Building in Utah County
Construction here has requirements that contractors from outside the area won’t anticipate.
Permits go through individual cities, not one county office. Lehi, Orem, Provo, American Fork, Saratoga Springs, and every other city each run their own building department with their own submittal requirements, plan review timelines, and inspection scheduling. Unincorporated areas go through Utah County. We know which department has jurisdiction over your address and what each one wants to see in a submittal package. This can prevent plan reviews from stalling.
Seismic design matters on structural work. Utah County sits along the Wasatch Fault and falls in a high seismic design category. Any project that removes a load-bearing wall or adds structure has to account for lateral loads, not just vertical ones. We engage a structural engineer on projects involving load-bearing changes, and we build the connections and hold-downs to the engineered detail rather than to a field approximation.
Soil and groundwater vary sharply across the valley. Properties closer to Utah Lake can hit high groundwater and soft soils, while homes along the bench often have expansive clay and rock. Both affect footing design on additions. We may recommend a soils report on addition projects where the site conditions are uncertain, which costs less than correcting a foundation after it moves.
Snow weighs more than most people expect. A foot of wet spring snow can put about 20 pounds per square foot on a roof, which is around 10 tons on a 1,000 square foot addition. Utah sets ground snow load by site elevation rather than by region, so the number changes from address to address. We pull the load for your specific site and confirm frost depth with the building department before framing.
Frequently Asked Questions
If your project requires a building permit, involves structural changes, or needs more than one licensed trade, yes. Single-trade work and minor repairs usually do not.
Yes. We hold an active Utah contractor license and carry general liability insurance. We provide documentation before work begins.
Yes. We identify the correct jurisdiction, prepare the submittal, respond to plan review, and schedule all required inspections.
You can, and homeowners sometimes do on smaller projects. On permitted work you become responsible for sequencing trades around inspections, verifying every license and insurance certificate, and resolving conflicts between crews. Most homeowners find that the coordination cost exceeds what they save.
General contractor fees are built into the project price rather than billed separately. We’d be happy to give you a free estimate of what your project will cost.
It depends on your project! Cosmetic projects can take hours to days, structural projects can take weeks, and additions can take months. When we do a walkthrough for your estimate, we’ll give you an expected timeline.