Commercial General Contractor in Buford, GA.

Buford sits at the south end of Lake Lanier, split across Gwinnett and Hall counties, and it runs its own building department separate from either county — anything inside the city limits along Buford Hwy, Hamilton Mill Rd, or downtown Main St gets permitted through the City of Buford, not the county office. That's a detail we track project by project, because a site a quarter mile away can flip to Gwinnett or Hall permitting depending on which side of the line it's on.

The retail and industrial growth around the Mall of Georgia and the I-85/Hwy 20 interchange is where most of Buford's commercial work is: big-box and outparcel retail, restaurant pad sites, and the flex and distribution buildings that have filled in along Buford Dr and Peachtree Industrial Blvd toward Suwanee. Hamilton Mill and the newer development off Hwy 20 toward Sugar Hill add another steady stream of retail and light-industrial work.

Residentially, the lake draws older cabin and lake-house stock around Buford Dam Rd and the Lanier shoreline alongside newer subdivisions further from the water — which means our roofing crews see everything from a 1980s asphalt roof on a lake property to a five-year-old architectural shingle job on a new build, sometimes on the same street.

On the commercial side we do build-outs and tenant improvements for the retail and restaurant space that keeps turning over near the Mall of Georgia corridor, along with interior work for the medical and professional offices that have followed the retail growth into Hamilton Mill and Buford proper. Warehouse and light-industrial tenants along Peachtree Industrial Blvd and the Hwy 20 corridor bring build-out and roof work of their own, since a lot of that stock is older tilt-up and metal buildings due for repair or a full replacement.

Roofing is where we self-perform: commercial single-ply on the flex and retail buildings, and residential roofs on the lake-house and subdivision stock, all run with our own crews rather than handed to a sub. Storm restoration is a big piece of the roofing workload here given the lake's weather exposure, covered below.

Integrity CRR self-performs roofing and prepares roofing estimates in-house. For non-roof scopes, Integrity acts as the general contractor and manages vetted subcontractors. A single project lead owns the schedule, the subs, and the punch list.

The split building department is the first thing we check on any Buford job — confirming whether a property falls under City of Buford, Gwinnett County, or Hall County permitting before we submit drawings, since the requirements and timelines aren't identical across the three. Getting that wrong at the front end costs real time on a build-out with a tenant move-in date.

For property managers and owners running multiple sites in the corridor between Buford and Suwanee or Sugar Hill, we can carry several projects at once — a build-out on one property and a roof inspection or repair on another — without needing separate points of contact.

Buford's position at the south end of Lake Lanier puts it in the path of the hail and straight-line wind that tends to build off the lake in spring and summer storms — both the lakefront residential stock and the retail and industrial roofs around the Mall of Georgia corridor take damage in the same events. We inspect and document for both.

Our in-house estimating team writes each claim scope in Xactimate, a widely used property-loss estimating platform, so it can be compared line by line with an adjuster's Xactimate estimate when that format is used.

Once the carrier approves a claim, our in-house estimating team documents the repair items and flags what the initial estimate missed, including code-required upgrades and hidden damage identified when a roof is opened, and we document differences and submit a contractor supplement request for carrier review if the approved estimate falls short.