Southeast Ohio

Commercial Construction in Southeast Ohio 

Twenty-one counties of Appalachian Ohio, with no metro and a great many public buildings spread between them. Prodigy Building Solutions works with the school districts, cities, villages, townships and counties across all of them, and most of what we build is for public owners buying through cooperative contracts.

What We Do in Southeast Ohio

Prodigy is a single source for building work: building renovations and additions, commercial roofing, paving, HVAC, lighting, windows and doors, athletic facilities, career tech centers, theaters and auditoriums, storm damage restoration, and project management from design through closeout. We carry in-house engineering, architecture and project management, so the people who design your project are the people who run it.

Building Conditions in Southeast Ohio

Southeast Ohio is the part of the state the glaciers never reached, and that changes how a site works. There is no drift mantle; ODNR describes the land surface and the bedrock surface here as essentially the same thing. The dominant soil, Gilpin, sits 20 to 40 inches over interbedded shale, siltstone and sandstone, on slopes running to 70 percent. Footings and utility trenches hit rock routinely, and sites get benched and retained rather than graded flat.

Relief runs 350 to 600 feet, and slope stability is a design input rather than a footnote. The state hazard mitigation plan identifies the Appalachian Plateau as Ohio's most landslide-susceptible ground, with Belmont and Monroe counties at high incidence; ODOT counts more than a thousand landslide-impacted roadway sites in Monroe alone. Colluvium and red shales that weather and slip are the reason.

Then there is what is underneath. Ohio has roughly 8,000 abandoned underground mines across 41 counties, and 18 of the 21 counties we serve here are statutory mandatory mine-subsidence-insurance counties. Note the word residential: the state subsidence pool covers one-to-four family dwellings and expressly excludes commercial and industrial buildings. A public owner on undermined ground has no statutory backstop, so the risk has to be handled in the geotechnical investigation and the foundation design. ODNR's abandoned mine locator is the first place we look.

Along the Ohio River and in the narrow valleys, flash flooding is the region's most frequent hazard. Washington County alone accounts for 198 repetitive-loss structures and roughly $12 million in paid claims, the highest in the state, and Marietta accounts for 121 of them. Site elevation and stormwater routing matter here in a way they simply do not on flat ground.

Cooperative Purchasing in Southeast Ohio

Public owners anywhere in Ohio can buy Prodigy's work through the cooperative contracts we hold. Buying through a co-op is a pre-bid path — the competitive process happens at the co-op level, so your district or municipality can move on a project without running its own procurement cycle.

Every contract below is available to public entities across Ohio, including all twenty-one Southeast Ohio counties:

• 791 Coop
• Equalis Gordian
• OSC (Ohio School Council)
• Sourcewell Gordian
• SWOEPC (Southwestern Ohio Educational Purchasing Council)
• TIPS (The Interlocal Purchasing System)
• TOP-C (The Ohio Purchasing Council)
• Vizient Gordian

Which one fits depends on your entity type, the scope of work and any memberships you already hold. Not sure? Call us and we'll walk through it — there's no cost to find out.

Who We Serve in Southeast Ohio

Southeast Ohio covers 21 counties — Adams, Athens, Belmont, Coshocton, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Vinton and Washington — with 80 public school districts and 13 cities of 5,000 or more.

Public school districts (80)
Adams (2) Adams County Ohio Valley Local · Manchester Local
Athens (5) Alexander Local · Athens City · Federal Hocking Local · Nelsonville-York City · Trimble Local
Belmont (7) Barnesville Exempted Village · Bellaire Local · Bridgeport Exempted Village · Martins Ferry City · Shadyside Local · St Clairsville-Richland City · Union Local
Coshocton (3) Coshocton City · Ridgewood Local · River View Local
Gallia (2) Gallia County Local · Gallipolis City
Guernsey (3) Cambridge City · East Guernsey Local · Rolling Hills Local
Harrison (2) Conotton Valley Union Local · Harrison Hills City
Hocking (1) Logan-Hocking Local
Jackson (3) Jackson City · Oak Hill Union Local · Wellston City
Lawrence (7) Chesapeake Union Exempted Village · Dawson-Bryant Local · Fairland Local · Ironton City · Rock Hill Local · South Point Local · Symmes Valley Local
Meigs (3) Eastern Local · Meigs Local · Southern Local
Monroe (1) Switzerland of Ohio Local
Morgan (1) Morgan Local
Muskingum (6) East Muskingum Local · Franklin Local · Maysville Local · Tri-Valley Local · West Muskingum Local · Zanesville City
Noble (2) Caldwell Exempted Village · Noble Local
Perry (4) Crooksville Exempted Village · New Lexington · Northern Local · Southern Local
Pike (4) Eastern Local · Scioto Valley Local · Waverly City · Western Local
Ross (7) Adena Local · Chillicothe City · Huntington Local · Paint Valley Local · Southeastern Local · Union-Scioto Local · Zane Trace Local
Scioto (10) Bloom-Vernon Local · Clay Local · Green Local · Minford Local · New Boston Local · Northwest Local · Portsmouth City · Valley Local · Washington-Nile Local · Wheelersburg Local
Vinton (1) Vinton County Local
Washington (6) Belpre City · Fort Frye Local · Frontier Local · Marietta City · Warren Local · Wolf Creek Local

Cities of 5,000 or more (13)
Athens (1) Athens
Belmont (1) Martins Ferry
Coshocton (1) Coshocton
Guernsey (1) Cambridge
Hocking (1) Logan
Jackson (2) Jackson · Wellston
Lawrence (1) Ironton
Muskingum (1) Zanesville
Ross (1) Chillicothe
Scioto (1) Portsmouth
Washington (2) Belpre · Marietta

Looking for a different part of Ohio? Southwest Ohio · Western Ohio · Central Ohio · Northwest Ohio · Northeast Ohio

About Southeast Ohio

The Muskingum River Navigation System still works the way it did in 1841 — ten hand-operated sandstone locks between Zanesville and Marietta, named a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 2001 and the most intact system of its kind in the country. Ohio's modern school construction program was born here too. DeRolph was filed in Perry County in 1991 and decided in 1997, its record citing bowed walls and failing sewage at schools in Perry and Lawrence counties. Nearly two-thirds of Ohio districts have rebuilt since.

Common Questions

Do you work with school districts in Athens and Washington counties?
Yes. We work across all twenty-one Southeast Ohio counties, from Adams and Scioto on the Ohio River to Coshocton, Guernsey and Belmont. The Recent Projects section below shows what we have finished nearby, and we're glad to give you a reference from a district near you.

Which cooperative purchasing contracts can a Southeast Ohio district or city use?
All of them. Every cooperative contract we hold is available to public entities anywhere in Ohio, including all twenty-one Southeast Ohio counties. Which one fits depends on the entity type, the scope of work and whether you already hold a membership. We'll help you figure that out before you commit to anything.

What size projects do you take on?
Our sweet spot is complex renovation work in the $250,000 to $20 million range, and we do a lot of projects in the $250,000 to $500,000 band. Very small scopes — a short stretch of sidewalk, a single repair — are usually better handled by a local contractor, and we'll tell you so.

Do you self-perform the work or subcontract it?
Both, depending on the trade. We carry in-house engineering, architecture, project management and general labor for some trades, and we buy all material ourselves rather than passing that to subcontractors. That means pre-construction planning has to be exact, which is a large part of why our projects run the way they do.

We've never worked with Prodigy. How does a project start?
Usually with a conversation and a walk-through. We develop the project with you to fit the budget, bring contractors in during budgeting rather than after, and charge little or nothing for the initial design work. You'll know what it costs before you're committed.

Do you handle design as well as construction?
Yes. We lead with engineering — function first, then architecture — and the engineers who design a project also manage it, so small problems get corrected in the field instead of becoming change orders. On large or highly specialized work we partner with outside architecture and engineering firms, and you pay for that only as it's needed.

Talk to Someone in Southeast Ohio

Jon Green
Southeast Ohio
(937) 776-0169

Call Jon directly about a project, a budget number, or a question about cooperative purchasing. Jon covers the twenty-one counties of Southeast Ohio.