About BuilderGuru

Owner-led, since 1985.

Founded · 1985, Annapolis MD

Practice · Construction Management · Design-Build · Tenant Fit-Out · Ground-Up · Preconstruction · Pre-Engineered Metal

Operating Region · Maryland, DC, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania

Licenses · MHIC #12345 · MHBR #67890 · VA Class A

The Story

BuilderGuru was founded on the Chesapeake in 1985 with a single purpose: build well, build truthfully, and build to last.

Four decades later, the practice remains owner-operated. Our project leads are the same hands that walk the site, sign the change orders, and answer the phone at six in the morning when something needs to be made right.

We do not chase scale. We choose work where the brief is exacting, the program is meaningful, and the result is worth standing in front of — for the owner, for the neighborhood, and for the decades the building will serve.

Forty Years on the Chesapeake

A practice built one project at a time.

1985
Founded
Two-person shop in Annapolis. First project — a 1,200 sf restaurant fit-out on Main Street.
1997
Gardiner & Gardiner
Affiliated practice launched for ground-up institutional and pre-engineered metal.
2008
10,000th Project
Recession years. We grew through them by holding rates flat and our standards higher.
2019
Regional Expansion
DC and Northern Virginia operations. New office on West Street, Annapolis.
2026
Today
40,000+ projects delivered. The same family at the helm — and the same standard of care.
Our Two Houses

Two firms. One standard of care.

01 · Commercial

BuilderGuru Contracting, Inc.

Restaurants, schools, medical, retail, and tenant fit-outs across the Mid-Atlantic. Construction management, design-build, and full general contracting from the practice's founding house.
Founded1985
RegionMD · DC · VA
FocusCommercial
02 · Institutional

Gardiner & Gardiner Contracting, LLC

Specialty arm for ground-up institutional work, pre-engineered metal buildings, and select private residences — where the program is unusual and the standards are uncompromising.
Founded1997
RegionMid-Atlantic
FocusGround-Up · PEMB
Leadership

The hands on the work.

WG

William Gardiner

Founder · President
Founded the practice in 1985. Still walks every job site he can.
TG

Thomas Gardiner

VP · Operations
Second-generation. 22 years in the field, last six at the helm of operations.
MH

Marcus Hale

Director · Preconstruction
Cost modeling, value engineering, and constructability before shovel.
EK

Eleanor Knox

Senior Project Lead
Restaurants and hospitality specialist. 14 years with the practice.
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