Prost Builders is known for its passion for restoring the culture and history in Missouri because it’s the fabric of society that needs to be preserved for future generations. Our skilled craftsmen pay much attention to detail to perform those restorations, and they imitate how the old craftsmen performed the tasks from that original period. Prost Builders even went out to the woods, cut down a particular tree, and shaped it exactly like the timber so it looked the same as from generations ago.
This is how Prost Builders works to be authentic with our renovation and restoration of all historic projects. Another restoration required using walnut shells to blast the wood columns of a project to remove paint and get back to the original wood surface!
Prost Builders’ attention to detail extends to all our key people because they all go through an apprenticeship program-such as a carpenter, labor, iron worker, or concrete finishing apprenticeships. Our apprentices go to school to learn the basics and when finished-they begin work with all the knowledge and skills they learned. We don’t have our workers ‘learn on the job’ and that’s why quality is a cornerstone of our business. We have Superintendents who have been with us for over thirty years, and they provide consistency of quality workmanship, professional oversight, and reliability in delivering the goods for our clients. Having that longevity with our trusted Superintendents also gives us the assurance that we can deliver the quality and satisfaction our clients expect for their project.
Our dedication to historic restorations is also matched by our dedication to our new build projects, as well. We’ve been known to help keep a client on budget and within the time frame by coming up with solutions and design ideas when a product is experiencing a delay in shipment. Vaughn Prost designed pre-stressed, concrete double tees for the 100-foot span across the gymnasium roof for Jefferson Middle School when the structural steel roof would be delayed by 5 months. As a Professional Engineer, Vaughn Prost was able to save the Columbia Public School $360,000 by designing this alternate roof for the client.
Prost Builders has been a reliable Missouri commercial and general contractor for 75+ years and we know all the quality sub-contractors to hire for all our projects. We’re not a ‘suitcase contractor’ that sends a Superintendent from another state to hire sub-contractors and suppliers they don’t know. We have a long list of all the plasterers, gold leaf painters, restoration experts, and skilled craftsmen who know exactly how to properly restore unique historic projects. Since we were founded in 1949, we not only work here, but we live in this state and cherish the people and businesses who make Missouri a great place to live and work. Given all the experience of three quarters of a century of construction expertise-we have the history and knowledge to build a team for each specific project. Due to our attention to details, quality, and going the extra mile for our clients-you can only imagine how great your new build project will be with us as your construction team to help your business thrive.
Vaughn Prost is the owner and president of Prost Builders lnc., a design/build and construction services firm located in Columbia. Vaughn has over forty years of domestic and international design and construction experience as a cost and scheduling engineer, structural engineer, owner’s construction representative, and general contractor.
(573) 635-0211 | prostbuilders.com
3305 Crawford Street, Columbia, MO 65203
