Bob Clark founded Clayco in 1984 with the goal of finding new, better ways to do business, and hasn’t looked back since. The company is now among the largest builders of industrial, advanced manufacturing, food & beverage and hyperscale data facilities. By establishing and nurturing a company culture of collaboration and a can-do attitude, he ensured that Clayco was the best option for both clients and innovators.
Bob dedicates his time and resources to addressing critical issues, including children’s needs, education, and rare disease research projects, and supports strong civic leadership. He is currently launching the Clark Family Foundation and has been engaged as a longtime trustee of several institutions, including the University of Chicago Medical Center, Loyola University Chicago, SLU, Washington University and Central Institute of the deaf.
When he’s not pioneering the next big idea, he enjoys spending time with his wife Jane Clark, his children, and his grandchildren at his Colorado ranch, and hiking mountains worldwide.
FIRM PROFILE
Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate, architecture, engineering, design-build and construction firm that delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time, on budget and above and beyond expectations.
Develop. Design. Build. It’s not just the steps in the design-build process that set us apart. It’s how we overlap each step to make every project better. Founded in 1984, every project we’ve built has been fully integrated and we have revolutionized the design-build process every step of the way. Our building processes deliver solutions of the highest standard, and clients have trusted Clayco to handle their most complex construction projects for over 35 years.
Clayco has dramatically set new standards for collaborative design, construction quality and craftsmanship, efficient project management, cost containment and jobsite safety. With over $5.8+ billion in revenue for 2023 and more than 3,500 employees across the country, we are one of the nation’s largest privately-owned real estate, architecture, engineering, design-build and construction firms. Our people specialize in the “art and science of building,” providing fast-track, efficient solutions in North America for commercial, institutional, industrial and residential building projects. Year after year, we are ranked by Engineering News Record as a top design-builder and contractor.
At Clayco, it’s been our culture from the very beginning to do more than build. To Create, to innovate, and to do it with a holistic, intelligent balance of art and science that’s unmatched anywhere.
We see our work through the eyes of the people who will use them every day. Through their eyes, we see places of healing, nourishment, progress, technology, science, research, industry and entertainment.
The results? Powerful structures with impacts that reach far beyond these walls.
Because it’s not about the walls we plan and the buildings we put up. It’s about the people and their purpose within them every day.
Without them, our walls have no purpose. And with them, our purpose has no limits.
That’s the art and science of building.
That’s CLAYCO.
