Tofel Dent Construction

Mr. Tofel is the founder of Tofel Dent Construction located in Tucson, AZ. With over 29 years experience in the construction business, Mr. Tofel has led Tofel Dent Construction to become one of the preeminent multi-family general contractors in Arizona.

After beginning in custom homebuilding, professional office, retail, industrial and medical segments of the industry, Mr. Tofel moved the Company to its speciality niche in apartment construction in 1994. This specialty was further segmented into market-rate, student, senior and affordable products, with affordable housing accounting for over 80% of Tofel Dent Construction’s current business. As such, of the 99 apartment projects and over 9,600 units completed by Tofel Dent Construction throughout Arizona and New Mexico, 85 projects and approximately 7,300 units are classified as affordable. Past and present customers include over 20 statewide and national non-profit organizations.

Tofel Dent Construction prides itself in maintaining a high-technology production construction operation. Although Tofel Dent Construction develops no projects itself, Mr. Tofel has been active in many other aspects of the affordable housing industry, including marketing, finance, and legislative issues.

Mr. Catalfamo is the Senior Estimating Manager with Tofel Dent Construction. Prior to joining our team in 2016, Mr. Catalfamo had 32 years commercial construction experience in Tucson; he has since added hospitality and multifamily experience to his resume. He started his construction career with a commercial general contractor as a carpenter in 1985 and quickly worked his way up to field superintendent. He was promoted to estimator in 2001. Since that time, he was lead estimator for many competitively bids projects and provided estimates and budgets for all the negotiated, construction management, and design/bid/build projects that company had participated in since 2001. His experience includes a comprehensive range in all facets of the construction industry.

Mr. Catalfamo’s field experience gives him the ability to look at each project as more than costs on a spreadsheet. He knows what the field world is like and can provide valuable advice during the design phase with not just costs of materials and methods, but constructability, value analysis, and life cycle.

His experience in the construction arena has included projects in all areas such as multi-family, hospitality, senior living, as well as commercial retail centers, medical facilities, industrial buildings, manufacturing facilities, automotive offices and facilities, restaurants, educational buildings (public, charter and university), office buildings, historic renovations, religious facilities, financial buildings and improvements, fraternity houses and residential buildings and improvements.

Mr. Welker is a senior project manager with Tofel Dent Construction located in Tucson, AZ. Mr. Welker’s construction experience spans 19 years with a strong focus on multifamily new construction, preconstruction services, estimating, bidding, and subcontractor buyouts.

He started his career as a superintendent with Bowen Development out of Portland, OR. He was transfered to Phoenix, AZ, to complete a project for Bowen and was then hired as a superintendent by Tofel Dent Construction. After completing two projects totaling 300 units, Mr. Welker was promoted to project manager, completing 10 projects totaling 996 units (primarily in Phoenix). In 2007, due to personal reasons, Mr. Welker moved back to Portland. He held a position as project manager for Joseph Hughes Construction. Although in 2015, he was able to return to Arizona and rejoined Tofel Dent Construction.

Mr. Welker has exhibited excellent construction and management skills and is a valued member of the Tofel Dent Construction team.

Mr. Dent graduated from the University of Arizona in 1997 with a bachelor’s degree in materials science and engineering. Prior to completing his coursework, he had started two small companies. Mr. Dent worked in the field of materials research for three years as an undergraduate research assistant at the Arizona Materials Laboratories and for three years as an engineer. He worked on everything from optical thin films to vacuum casting and processing of high-temperature and high-performance ceramic composites for the aerospace industry. He is a co-author on five peer-reviewed, published papers, and he is co-inventor on a U.S. Patent.

Mr. Dent accepted the opportunity and made a career change into the construction business by joining Tofel Dent Construction in October 2000. He has moved rapidly through many assignments, from assisting upper management, to assistant superintendent and then superintendent. From October 2003 to July 2005, he created and headed up Tofel’s Development Services Department, handling all estimating and project development coordination with customers that resulted in estimating over $200 million in successfully completed work built.

From 2005 to 2010, Mr. Dent went from project manager to senior project manager, responsible for over $100 million in completed work. In January 2014, Mr. Dent was once again promoted to vice president of operations. In December 2017, Tofel Dent Construction changed it’s name to Tofel Dent Construction Construction as Mr. Dent is currently managing member, operations.

A Tucson native, Mr. Maggart put himself through college working in Alaskan fisheries and as an athletic trainer. Having always been fascinated by the idea of creating something from nothing, he pursued a career in construction.

He was hired as a construction superintendent straight out of college by a design/build firm where he learned the ins and outs of the construction business. He traveled throughout Arizona, Nevada, California, and Michigan building commercial projects, office buildings, and assisted living facilities.

Mr. Maggart joined Tofel Dent Construction in 2001 where he put his valuable experience to good use. He started as a superintendent on projects in Tucson and New Mexico. He was promoted to project manager in 2003 and to senior project manager in 2011, where he currently enjoys great success.

Mr. Tofel graduated from the University of Arizona in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Following graduation, he worked for Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) for over eight years specializing in financial reporting and accounting systems. His project experience includes Microage Computers, the Dial Corp, Hunt-Wesson, M&M Mars, Kal Kan, PacifiCare, the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and United HealthCare. Following Accenture, Mr. Tofel worked at Cadence Design Systems where he led a $35M customer relationship management project.

Mr. Tofel joined Tofel Dent Construction in 2002. He started as a field superintendent and has worked in the Preconstruction Department since 2003. Since joining the Preconstruction Department, Mr. Tofel has worked with developers, architects, engineers, and subcontractors on over 200 projects. His responsibilities include sales, marketing, contract administration, developing preliminary budgets, assisting in the project design, performing plan reviews, value engineering, bidding projects, and coordinating with governmental agencies.