DAVE ADAMS has been in the construction industry in San Diego a large majority of his life. While attending junior college, he worked as a laborer and later on joined the carpenters union where he worked as a rough framer while going through the union’s strenuous four year apprentice program. After becoming a journeymen carpenter he worked as a foreman doing rough framing of housing tracts and commercial buildings. He has done concrete work and finish carpentry along with many other aspects in this industry. He has been a licensed contractor in the State of California since 1977 when he started his own firm doing rough framing projects and building homes and commercial projects from the ground up. In 1985 he incorporated and became Adams Builders Inc. which does all kinds of construction including but not limited to remodels, tenant improvements, shopping centers and concrete tilt ups and government projects. Mr. Adams has developed numerous properties on his own and has joint ventured with Grossmont Bank and Heartland Savings & Loan. He has done work for most of the municipalities in San Diego County including the U.S. Navy, the Port of San Diego, and Donovan State Prison. He has and still does attend seminars and classes on a regular basis updating his education of this industry. He has taken extended classes in mediation, arbitration and dispute resolution. He has given testimony on construction defect cases and does cost analysis and total damage assessments. Dave currently sits on the Oversight Committee Board for Proposition R at Southwestern College (this Board oversees the $326M bond funds that are to be spent on construction and renovations to the college), is a member of Rotary International and holds a California Real Estate license.
Mr. Adams knows and understands a wide scope of the construction industry from the actual hands on construction, planning, permit processing, mapping, estimating, cost analysis, and the financial aspects. Having worked his way up from the ground to a successful general contractor, he has a vast amount of knowledge in this industry. Mr. Adams’ insight to this industry is derived from having contracted with so many different municipalities, government agencies, private developers and individuals. This twenty four years of experience as a contractor gives him an advantage in settling disputes. Mr. Adams has also owned and/or managed many properties and understands the problems arising from, and the difference between, faulty construction and lack of maintenance and improper upkeep. He also understands the cash flow and financial side of rental properties. His personal interest are in the stock market, reading, playing golf, and aviation. He has had a private pilot’s license for over fourteen years, with an instrument rating and over twelve hundred hours. He was associated with and has flown for the Flying Samaritans and has flown numerous people for medical reasons.