A builder that protects the design.
Constructability reviews and pricing while the design is still flexible, crews that know historic and structural work, and energy systems coordinated with the building from the start.
Your drawings, built the way you drew them.
Value engineering should protect the design intent, not erase it. Burge prices early, flags constructability issues before they reach the field, and brings experience with the building types that are hardest to get right: historic structures, hospitality interiors and civic buildings.
Constructability and pricing
Reviews and estimates at schematic, design development and construction document milestones, with options rather than cuts.
Historic and landmark work
Restoration of the 1927 Laguna Beach Presbyterian Church, the Heisler Building, Casa Romantica and the Shrine Auditorium retrofit.
Historic restoration →Retrofit and structural steel
Experience building engineers' retrofit designs inside existing and historic structures.
Seismic retrofit →Interiors that hold up
Restaurant, bar and hotel interiors where finish quality is judged by guests.
Hospitality →Solar and storage coordination
California's Energy Code requires solar and battery storage on most new commercial buildings, and the 2025 code, in effect since January 1, 2026, expanded those requirements to more building types.1718 Burge Energy coordinates array, battery and electrical design with your team.
Battery storage →Submittals and RFIs
Organized submittals, timely RFIs and owner reporting, so questions are answered before they become change orders.
How we work with you.
Clear numbers at every milestone, from first budget to turnover.
Early pricing
Budget and systems options while the design is flexible.
Constructability
Review of details, sequencing and long-lead items.
Final pricing
Pricing against the permit set with value engineering options.
Build to intent
Submittals, RFIs and field coordination through closeout.
Work that design teams trusted us with.
Selected from the full project record.
- Laguna Beach Presbyterian ChurchStructural, waterproofing and finish restoration of the 1927 church · Laguna Beach
- Shrine AuditoriumAuditorium seismic retrofit and rehabilitation · Los Angeles
- Masonic TempleThree-story historic building · Fullerton
- Casa Romantica Cultural CenterHistoric restoration and site work · San Clemente
- The Ranch at Laguna BeachHotel and lodge renovation, new spa · Laguna Beach
- Saddleback CollegeADA compliance renovation · Mission Viejo
See the work.
Open any project for the scope and photos.
Laguna Beach Presbyterian Church
Structural, waterproofing and finish restoration of the 1927 Spanish mission style church, including structural steel, an accessibility lift, stained glass and the bell tower cupola.
Urth Caffé
Complete historic and structural restoration of a 3,000 SF historic building, a new restaurant interior, a 500 SF basement addition and new site improvements.
Rock’N Fish and the Heisler Building
Historic and structural restoration of the Heisler Building on South Coast Highway, plus tenant improvements for a 6,100 SF restaurant and bar.
Questions we hear first.
Straight answers before you call.
Can Burge price a design before it is finished?
Yes. Burge provides conceptual and milestone estimates with constructability reviews, so design decisions are made with cost in view.
Does Burge have historic building experience?
Yes. Burge has restored the 1927 Laguna Beach Presbyterian Church, the Heisler Building in Laguna Beach and Casa Romantica in San Clemente, and completed the seismic retrofit and rehabilitation of the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Can Burge coordinate solar and battery storage for a new building?
Yes. Burge Energy designs and builds commercial solar and battery storage and coordinates layout, structure and electrical design with the architect and engineers.
Does Burge do design/build?
Yes, when an owner wants one team carrying design and construction. Burge also builds bid-build projects from an architect's construction documents.