Jensen Construction Corp. Inc. is a general contracting company. The firm specializes in commercial – industrial – educational - residential and health care construction. Jensen Construction’s goal of meeting customer needs through quality workmanship and successful relationships with owner’s management teams is evidenced by our expanding base of repeat clients.

Jensen Construction offers multi state construction services, pre-construction services, job site and project management, administrative support, and document control. Jensen Construction evaluates projects for construction, provides cost estimates, helps maintain project scheduling, and works with owners to meet quality and time objectives. Jensen Construction can suggest cost effective means of construction and help select the best subcontractors for each project.

Once a project has begun, Jensen Construction maintains full time superintendents who are responsible for daily logs, reviewing quality and timeliness of subcontractors, conducting safety meetings, and maintaining good communications with the owner.

Jensen Construction Corp. History

Oscar Schneider founded Jensen Construction in the early 1900’s. He came to Kewanee as a superintendent from another out of town company to build the Kewanee Star Courier Building. He liked the town of Kewanee and decided to stay and start his own company calling it Schneider Construction. With his new company he built Visitation school, the West office of the Kewanee Boiler Corp., Central school, Annawan school, Toulon grade and high schools, and the Galva Armory to name a few.

In the 1960’s Schneider Construction was purchased by Rusty Jensen who then called the company Schneider and Jensen. After becoming a non-union company in the early 80’s, Mr. Jensen named the company Jensen Construction as it remains today.

In the mid 1980’s Louis Betti purchased Jensen Construction. He ran the company for approximately 10 years building many local icons such as; Johnson Saulk Trail’s bath house, Kewanee’s Burger King, Pizza Hut, Hardees South, various work for most of the local schools and GTE.

The current owner of Jensen Construction today, Robert Whitmer, is dedicated in continuing the experienced high quality work that all of our local clients and many neighboring cities and states have come to know. He has built and serviced many assisted living facilities such as the Hawthorne Inn in Peru IL, Kewanee Estates, Liberty Village of Streator IL., and Windmill Pointe of Coralville IA .

Jensen Construction Corp. has also done a lot of life safety renovations for many of our local schools as well as Black Hawk East College.