North Bergen, NJ-based general contractor and construction manager Mc Gowan Builders, Inc. (MGB) recently completed an interior fit-out for law firm Binder & Binder. MGB president and CEO, Patrick Mc Gowan, said, "We are proud to have served the prominent law firm as general contractor. Corporate interior construction continues to remain our main market, in addition to Mc Gowan Builders' ground-up construction portfolio. The volume of MGB's work nationwide is poised to exceed $100 million in 2008." MGB served Binder & Binder, a social security disability law firm, as general contractor for a structural redevelopment, expansion, and a complete interior fit-out of the firm's 22,000 s/f, two-story office building at 34 Industrial St. The $3.3 million project encompassed the addition of a floor, including a floor slab, steel columns, and beams; construction of column foundations; exterior renovation; demolition of the pre-existing space; construction of new office interiors; and new mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and sprinkler systems. The MGB team installed a new sewer ejector system that incorporates a pump and a ¼-mile pipe connection to the city sewer line. Binder & Binder administrative offices, designed by UAI Urban Architectural Initiatives, encompass an open plan area, private offices, and a large employee cafeteria. The building features a new elevator and a staircase. Headquartered in North Bergen, New Jersey, with regional offices in New York City and Miami, FL, Mc Gowan Builders, Inc. is a premier full-service general contracting and construction management firm with an annual volume of projects totaling $100 million. The company provides construction services to commercial and institutional clients, including office, retail, hospitality, healthcare, educational, cultural, transportation/airport, warehousing, and industrial organizations. The firm delivers projects in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Delaware, Florida, and Louisiana. Led by company founder Patrick Mc Gowan and his partner Martin Mc Gowan, the Mc Gowan Builders team includes licensed architects, engineers, estimators, CPAs, project managers, superintendents, artisans, and laborers. In-house estimating, budgeting, scheduling, value engineering, and accounting departments support all project teams. The firm's in-house capabilities allow it to assist clients throughout all phases of even the most complex construction projects, from the initial consultation to the final close out. The firm's bonding capability exceeds $60 million. The Mc Gowan Builders team has delivered projects for some of the most prominent firms and organizations in the nation, including JPMorgan Chase, Columbia University, Rockefeller University, Harvard Medical School, Saks Fifth Avenue, The Tides Foundation, The Noguchi Museum, and Hudson Valley Hospital Center, among others. The firm's current and recent projects include the $10-million interiors of the Tides Foundation in New York City; the $12-million renovation of the Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel & Conference Center in East Rutherford, NJ; the $11-million Leaguers Headquarters in Newark, NJ; the $3-million Alliance Française Center in Miami, FL; the $5-million Tribune Television studio and broadcast facilities in New Orleans, LA; and multi-state, multi-location construction programs for JPMorgan Chase Bank, Staples, Bally Total Fitness, and Loehmann's.