Building Trust, Delivering Value

Our Mission is

To focus on the customer as the most important aspect of our business by providing exceptional value while encouraging safety, leadership and an entrepreneurial spirit among all employees. We will accomplish this mission through a team commitment to:

  

Fairness and Honesty | Quality Workmanship | Service Second to None


Carl A. Nelson & Company excels as a self-performing design-builder, construction manager, and general contractor across industrial, commercial, and institutional markets. Our project management team specializes in engineering and design, including mechanical systems, architectural design, and civil and structural engineering. Our skilled crews handle concrete work, steel erection, equipment setting, bridge crane installation, millwright work, plant maintenance, metal building installation, finish carpentry, and more. Safety is our top priority, ensuring projects meet budget, schedule, and quality standards.

  • Our team works in several construction market segments, delivering projects primarily for industrial, healthcare, education and recreation customers.

  • Our Nelson Plant Services division provides quick-turnaround construction projects and ongoing maintenance services in operating manufacturing plants.

  • Nelson Design, Inc., is a wholly owned subsidiary of CANCO providing code review, BIM coordination other design-related services to clients.

    • When Carl A. Nelson first went into business in 1913, through our transition in 1946 to employee ownership, and still today, our goal as a company is to Build Trust and Deliver Value to each and every one of our clients. A rate of repeat and referred business that equates to about 80% of our annual business shows that we have been, and continue to be, successful in meeting that goal.


    More about CANCO


    In May 2023, Carl A. Nelson & Company was featured in an installment of the All Things Greater Burlington podcast from the Greater Burlington Partnership. 

    Carl A. Nelson & Company was featured in July 2020 on the Iowa Business Report. Learn more about CANCO in this episode.


    The Next Chapter is You

    Now that you've read our history, and seen our emphasis on quality and integrity, we hope you can envision how Carl A. Nelson & Company will bring its pledge of Fairness and Honesty, Quality Workmanship and Service Second to None to bear for your organization.

    Learn more by contacting us today.

    It doesn't matter whether you're ready to get started, or still researching options. We would like to talk to you about how CANCO can be of service on your upcoming project, and work toward building a relationship that can carry on for many years to come.

    We make it easy for you to get in touch. You'll find a contact form like the one below on just about every significant page of the site, or simply call (319) 754-8415 and ask for Dan Culp or Jamie Stanley. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

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