Don Drury founded the Drury Construction Company, Inc., a commercial and light industrial construction firm, on Bainbridge Island in 1972. A third-generation contractor, Drury got his start as an estimator working for his uncles’ firm, Mowat Brothers Constructions.

Drury Construction is now headquartered in the Powder Hill complex in Poulsbo — which the company built. It typically employs between 30 and 70 and generally completes between $15 and 20 million in projects per year. Drury offers construction services as well as pre-construction, pre-acquisition, and estimating services. The company self-completes the concrete and carpentry work on its projects and sub-contracts out most of the rest of the work, such as electrical and plumbing.

Most of the firm’s projects are located in Kitsap County, although Drury Construction has done work as far away as Chicago, Alaska, and even Fiji. Some of Drury’s recently completed projects include the Dogfish Creek Medical Building, the Fairfield Building in Silverdale, an addition and remodeling of the Silverdale Lutheran Church, as well as the $4.5 million dining hall at Fort Worden in Port Townsend.

Drury Construction currently has about a dozen projects in the works, including a remodeling project at Olympic High School, building a new driving range in Port Ludlow, the new Bonnie Lake Branch of Kitsap Bank, and a new day care facility, Discovery Depot, in Tracyton.

Some of the awards the firm has won include Associated General Contractor’s Award for Excellence for the work done on the First Lutheran Church of Port Orchard, as well as awards for the Bainbridge Island Grandstand.

Don Drury now shares ownership of Drury Construction with three others, Rick Cadwell, Gail Fleming, and Martin Sievertson. Cadwell is also the president Pacific Heights Construction, Inc., which was formed three years ago. Pacific Heights Construction focuses on residential or mixed-use construction projects, such as condominium complexes that include retail space. Pacific Heights offers project management services and uses sub-contractors for all labor on the projects it oversees.

Pacific Heights Construction’s current projects include a recently completed 9-unit apartment building on Bainbridge Island; the Island Crossings development, also on Bainbridge, a 60-unit condominium, 51-room hotel, and retail complex that includes an underground parking complex; and the soon-to-begin, 14-unit Campbell Way Townhomes in Bremerton. The firm will also be managing construction for a luxury, 48-unit townhouse complex with underground parking that is being built on the former site of the Bainbridge Island Winery.

Pacific Heights Construction’s projected volume for this year is between $15 and 20 million.