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Construction Contracting Services, Inc.
President/C.E.O.
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Monday | 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST |
Tuesday | 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST |
Wednesday | 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST |
Thursday | 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST |
Friday | 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST |
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Construction Contracting Services, Inc.
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Calvin Williams's Bio
Calvin E. Williams is the founder and CEO of Construction Contracting Services Inc., a general contracting firm that specializes in vertical construction, provides construction consulting and performs construction advisory services. Formerly, Mr. Williams was a project manager with Walsh Construction, one of Chicago’s largest and most respected general contracting, construction management and design-build firms. According to Engineering News Record, Walsh is the 11th-largest contractor in the nation.
Mr. Williams’s experience in commercial construction is broad and varied. His projects span across all sectors from commercial, local and state government to higher education. He has worked on projects to include constructing a seven-unit family town-home development, renovating units for the Chicago housing authority, historically restoring the YMCA in Joliet, Illinois (wherein the project also consisted of converting part of the facility into a 90+ room senior living facility) and building a new convocation center at Mount Carmel High School on the south side of Chicago. He has years of experience in corporate estimating, understanding and participating in each intricate step of the process from the initial budget estimation to the final ground-breaking moment. Following projects from their inception to culmination has given Mr. Williams the unique opportunity to understand the details of all the moving parts in these multi-faceted projects, with budgets reaching as high as $15M.
Mr. Williams holds a graduate degree in Social Work Administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed his undergraduate studies in Psychology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His exposure to marginalized populations during his studies inspired him to create work opportunities for minority skilled tradesmen, engineers and administrators, culminating in CCSI’s certification as a Minority Business Enterprise in the states of Indiana and Illinois. His positions as Chairman to the Committee on Construction at the Illinois Black Chamber of Commerce, the Chairman to the Subcommittee on Diversity at the Associated builders and contractors of Illinois and his roles as Board Chairman and Member of the Board of Directors at the Love, Unity and Values Institute have also afforded him the opportunity to further pursue this goal.
A native Chicagoan and current Indiana resident, Calvin and his beautiful wife are proudly raising three young men in the spirit of achievement, integrity, honor and excellence. He is a longtime dedicated member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity (Beta Eta Chapter, 1993), where he actively invests his personal time, talents, and money into serving the community. In his private time, you can find him on the golf course or the basketball court. Calvin continues to look for opportunities to influence generations of those who have been marginalized, in part by advocating for their rights by being a vocal leader in many community, political, and government organizations.