Top-Down Construction Pioneer TGE Plans First US Project in Denver
In 2018, EPC contractor TGE Top Down delivered a $112-million, 10-story, 621,000-sq-ft office building in Bangalore, India, using a patented top-down building system. That was the first use of top-down construction since the 1970s. Now, TGE is in the design stage of its first U.S. project, Evolve, a 398,952-sq-ft, two-tower multifamily residential development in the Arapahoe Square District of Denver.
Retired founder and former chairman of Thornton Tomasetti Charles H. Thornton founded TGE Top Down with Jeff Grillo, an owner’s executive, and Dan Esparza, a contractor and veteran industry entrepreneur. The team has been working with developers to push for its use since it was successfully deployed in Bangalore.