a few words about us

SEMCO has a long history of providing excellent service to our clients.

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As a privately held, locally, and family-owned construction firm, SEMCO has been serving Polk County and Central Florida in the Commercial, Industrial and Institutional markets over the past 36 years completing over 7,000 major projects. SEMCO brings to every project a highly qualified, significantly experienced, well trained, and exceptional team of construction professionals. Our construction management team members have an average of over 25 years of industry-leading experience as you will see in the "Meet the Team" and projects area of the website. Complementing our quality employees is SEMCO’s development of sound relationships with over 300 subcontractors and 450 suppliers who provide the highest quality work and materials at valued pricing for all phases of construction. Since our founding in 1975, our firm has established a respected reputation solidified by a construction philosophy of traditional foundation and visionary building.

SEMCO Construction, Inc. was founded in January of 1975 by Carl E. Locke, Sr. The company is a State of Florida Certified General Contractor and a State of Florida Certified Roofing Contractor. Our current aggregate bonding capacity is $17 million. We have completed over 7,000 projects in both the private and public sectors in our 37 year history and maintain approximately 75 full and part-time employees.

SEMCO’s capabilities are limited only by the imagination and needs of our clients. Our staff has the capabilities to provide a variety of technical and construction services. The combined construction experience of our management staff exceeds 250 years. Over 75% of our management staff has been with SEMCO over 20 years.

At SEMCO, we hold ourselves to a higher standard –
the complete satisfaction of our clients. A project is not considered successful unless the client is completely satisfied.

At SEMCO, we hold ourselves to a higher standard – the complete satisfaction of our clients. A project is not considered successful unless the client is completely satisfied.