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 our commercial calls come from — 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.

Public works and municipal work also comes through Buford and the surrounding Gwinnett and Hall county jurisdictions — we carry the GA GC license and bonding to bid that work, and it's a category we actively pursue in this market.

We're the general contractor on everything except roofing — a principal is on the job, and we run vetted subs with a track record on prior Integrity projects for the trades. Roofing is the one exception: our own crews do the work, and our in-house Haag-certified reviewer writes the estimate rather than farming it out, which matters on a lake market where roof damage claims are common.

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 estimating advantage is that we write every claim scope in Xactimate, the same software nearly every carrier uses to price the loss, so we can put our line-by-line estimate next to the adjuster's and show exactly what's missing or underpriced — instead of arguing in general terms with a different format. Our reviewer holds the highest level of Haag Certified Reviewer, which requires that Xactimate certification.

Once your claim is approved, we guarantee you get the full value of it — our in-house team writes every item of justified, claimable damage into the scope, including the code-required upgrades and hidden damage that only shows up once a roof is opened, and we document and pursue a supplement if the approved estimate falls short. What the policy actually covers is between the property owner and the carrier; we're not a public adjuster and we don't negotiate the claim on your behalf — we write the scope, document the damage, and build the repair once it's approved.