Standard Builders

Standard Builders is a general contractor focused on mid-size construction projects, with offices in Waltham and in Wethersfield, Connecticut. It aims to bring large-firm service, technology and preconstruction support to projects in roughly the one million to sixty million dollar range, a niche it says larger contractors often treat as a training ground and smaller firms struggle to manage. Its work spans three markets, led by healthcare and institutional clients alongside commercial work.

Charlie Munigle Sr. founded the company in 1949 during the post-World War II building boom, and it first worked on industrial and commercial projects around Hartford, Connecticut. After the early-1990s recession, president Bob Sullivan shifted the firm toward healthcare and institutional work and expanded it across Connecticut and central and western Massachusetts. In 2023, Josh Sullivan, who started at the company as a union laborer in 2007, became its fifth president.

What to Know

• Past projects include the Foxwoods Tanger Outlets, UConn’s Hilltop dorm renovation and the Baystate Health 3601 expansion.
• Earlier major jobs included the Hartford Courant expansion, the RPI Building and the Scoville headquarters.
• The firm became recognized as an industry leader in using technology on every project it delivers.
• Under Bob Sullivan, annual volume grew from about 5 million to about 60 million dollars.