Kinch Construction
Forty-three years on, the work that matters most is the work that repeats — clients who come back for the second project, the tenth, the fortieth.
Kinch has been on our campus for thirty-six years and across thirty-seven separate projects. That is not a vendor relationship — it is a partnership. The Forte Center came in on budget, opened on the first day of fall term, and looks better than the renderings.
The Carriage House was a project most contractors wouldn't have taken — protected exterior, historic fabric, and a school calendar that wouldn't move. Kinch took it and delivered exactly what we asked for.
Opening a wine bar in DC is a series of small disasters. With Kinch, the disasters never reached me — they were handled, priced honestly, and the doors opened on the night we said they would.
I have engaged Kinch for three residential restorations over twelve years. They treat my home the way they would treat their own — careful with the original fabric, transparent about the budget, on time.
We brought Kinch in for a sensitive lab fit-out where shutdowns weren't an option. They worked around our team, not the other way around — overnight phasing, daily debriefs, zero downtime.
A commercial fit-out done well doesn't get a press release — it just opens. Ours opened. Three Kinch projects later, I don't shop for general contractors anymore.
Working with the Kinch crew on the North Capitol entrance restoration was the most coordinated historic-paving job I've seen in DC. The craft on site matched the craft in the office.
Pool reconstructions on occupied estates rarely go to plan. This one did — Kinch ran a tight site, communicated weekly, and finished early.
I have specified Kinch on every educational project in our pipeline where the schedule was tight or the existing conditions were unknown. They are the firm I call when there isn't a margin for error.