Arden & Vale is a general contracting firm delivering commercial, residential and industrial builds for clients who measure quality in decades — not quarters.
Current contract
312,000 sq ft
Cross-laminated timber + structural steel
Accredited & insured
The Arden & Vale approach
Every project runs on the same three pillars — regardless of size, sector or how tight the programme is.
Self-performed structural work, BIM-coordinated shop drawings and a two-person QA review on every pour and weld. Tolerance is not a hope — it is a signed-off measurement.
A named project lead, a live cost dashboard and a weekly site report in plain English. You will never have to ask what something costs or where a trade stands.
Five-year structural warranty, a twelve-month snag response window and a maintenance team still on payroll a decade after handover.
What we build
From a single tenant improvement to a 300,000 sq ft distribution campus, the same superintendents, the same reporting, the same warranty.
All servicesOffices, clinics, hospitality. Ground-up or live-building renovations that finish on a Sunday so Monday is business as usual.
Custom homes and multi-family. Fixed-price contracts with a locked allowance schedule and no change-order surprises.
Distribution, cold storage, manufacturing. Heavy civil, process fit-out and phased handovers around your operating schedule.
1904 timber through 1968 brutalism. We match original profiles, source period materials and keep the heritage register happy.
Self-performed erection and welding. AISC-certified crews, sequenced around crane windows and site constraints.
One contract, one team, one price. Architect and builder under a single point of responsibility from feasibility to final key.
Selected work
Tacoma, WA · 312,000 sq ft · $84M · 2025
Portland, OR · 128 units · $46M · 2024
Seattle, WA · 4 floors · $6.2M · 2024
Portland, OR · 62,000 sq ft · $19M · 2023
Yakima, WA · 210,000 sq ft · $58M · 2023
By the numbers
We publish our delivery record because we would rather be measured against it than praised over it.
640
Projects delivered
$1.4B
Construction value
98.4%
Delivered on schedule
4.9/5
Client satisfaction
31
Active superintendents
0
Lost-time incidents
5yr
Structural warranty
218,744
CCB licence number
How we work
Site walk, constructability review and a ballpark range grounded in real unit costs — not optimism.
Permits, BIM coordination, a locked trade schedule and an allowance register you approve line by line.
Self-performed structural work, weekly reporting and a live dashboard you can open from a phone.
Systems commissioning, O&M handover pack, warranty binder and a maintenance schedule for the next decade.
Client words
Average client rating of 4.9 out of 5 across 214 independently commissioned post-project reviews.
“We tendered to four contractors. Arden & Vale were the only ones who came back with a constructability report instead of a price. Worth every dollar of the fee.”
Dana Whitfield
VP Development, Northline REIT
“Seventeen months, nineteen change orders, zero surprises. The dashboard meant I never had to ask where the money had gone.”
Marcus Oyelaran
Director of Operations, Cascadia Grocers
“We built our family home with them. Eleven years on, not one crack, not one callback. That is what the warranty was actually for.”
Elena & Rob Castellanos
Custom home clients, Lake Oswego
Send us the drawings, the napkin sketch or just the problem. You will get a real answer from a real estimator within two business days.