Featured Project — New Construction

A Ground-Up Commercial Shop in Monroe, WA

A specialty contractor needed one building to do two jobs — house heavy machinery and run the business. We built it from bare ground to finished shell: foundation, framing, and roof, all self-performed.

Completed wood-framed commercial shop new construction in Monroe, Washington, with shingled gable roof and oversized elevated overhead door
6400
Clear-Span Floor
12
Elevated Door Height
3 of 3
Concrete · Framing · Roofing
Monroe
Snohomish County, WA
The Brief

Built for the way the business actually works.

When a specialty contractor in Monroe outgrew their old space, they didn't need a patch — they needed a purpose-built headquarters. The requirements were specific: drive large equipment straight in off the yard, keep the floor wide open with no columns in the way, and carve out a real office where the business could operate day to day.

One ground-up build, engineered to hold heavy machinery and a working office under the same roof.

Pelletier Construction delivered the entire project as new construction — starting with a massive engineered slab sized for equipment loads, framing tall wood walls with headers built for oversized overhead doors, and topping it with a clear-span trussed roof so nothing interrupts the floor. We self-performed the concrete, the framing, and the roofing, and managed every phase from the first string line to the finished, weather-tight shell.

The result is a durable, hard-working commercial shop in Snohomish County that does exactly what it was designed to do — built from the foundation up to last.

How It Came Together

From slab to shell, in sequence.

Every new construction project lives or dies on the order of operations. Here is how this Monroe shop went up — each phase self-performed and inspected before the next began.

01 — Foundation & Slab

A massive slab, sized for machinery

The build started with site prep and a large engineered concrete slab and foundation poured to carry heavy equipment and vehicle traffic. Getting the slab flat, square, and load-rated set the tolerance for everything stacked on top of it.

Large engineered concrete slab and foundation poured for new commercial shop construction in Monroe WA
02 — Wall Framing

Tall walls, headers for oversized doors

Our crew framed the perimeter walls in dimensional lumber, raising full-height sections and sheathing them on the deck before standing them. Heavy built-up headers spanned the openings for the large, elevated overhead doors the equipment needed.

Crew framing tall wood-framed walls and oversized door headers on a new commercial shop in Monroe Washington
03 — Clear-Span Trussed Roof

Wide-open floor, no interior columns

Engineered roof trusses were craned into place and tied together to clear-span the full width of the building. That clear span is the whole point — it keeps the floor uninterrupted so large machinery can move and park anywhere inside the shop.

Engineered roof trusses being crane-set to clear-span a new commercial shop building in Monroe WA
04 — Enclosure & Dry-In

Sheathed, roofed, and weather-tight

With the structure standing, we sheathed the walls and roof, installed roofing, and dried the building in — turning an open frame into a sealed, durable shell ready for the office build-out, doors, and finishes inside.

New commercial shop fully sheathed and roofed during dry-in phase of ground-up construction in Monroe Washington
Scope of Work

One contractor, the whole build.

Site & Concrete
Site preparation, foundation, and a large engineered slab rated for heavy equipment.
Structural Framing
Full wood-framed walls with heavy headers for oversized, elevated overhead doors.
Clear-Span Roofing
Crane-set engineered roof trusses and roofing — a column-free span end to end.
Office Build-Out
Dedicated office space framed inside the shop so the business runs under one roof.
Project Management
Single point of contact from string line to dry-in, with inspections at every phase.
Built to Last
Durable methods and materials chosen for a commercial workload, not a quick finish.

Planning a shop, garage, or commercial build?

From the slab to the roofline, we build new construction across King and Snohomish County — start to finish, with one team accountable for the whole project. Let's talk about what you need to build.