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Working with Sharlen Electric over the past 20 years has been a great experience. While at Leopardo Construction, I had the pleasure of working with many of their talented professionals on numerous retail projects in the Chicago market. When your project is tasked with field conditions or engineering challenges, you can count on Sharlen Electric to roll up their sleeves, creatively work through the issues, and deliver cost-effective solutions on a timely basis. I look forward to Sharlen’s expertise to support our future project opportunities at Clark Street development.

It has been refreshing to work with a company that understands and is dedicated to the “team” approach and assists the general contractor in making the construction process efficient and economical. Sharlen takes special care to ensure that the finished building meets or exceeds all of their respective expectations, and they are especially good to work with in the design phase.

We are proud of the many projects that Walsh Construction and Sharlen Electric have built together. Best to the Cullen family and all at Sharlen.

Sharlen has time and again exceeded our expectations with regard to quality of work, timeliness, and the ability to bring solutions to problems encountered in the field during the course of construction.

Our firm is known as one of the quickest Interior specialty contractors in the Chicago market. We have NEVER failed to deliver a quality project on time with reasonable cost. We demand competent and well equipped crews, sufficient staffing, and forward thinking tradespeople from our subcontractors. Sharlen has NEVER failed us no matter how big or small our project may be.

The electrical trade is probably the most pivotal trade in our field of work. They can make or break a project schedule which impacts all trades. We expect the electrical contractor to be our catalyst with regard to project pace and work flow. Sharlen has always met that task, which allows IAI to exceed the customer’s expectations.

When any of my industrial or commercial customers ask me about electrical expertise, Sharlen is my ready recommendation. Whether installing and designing systems in new construction or updating existing service, Sharlen has proven its versatility and capability time and again. Sharlen’s hands-on project management style ensures superior craftsmanship and reliability in any project they take on.

KJWW Engineering has worked with Sharlen Electric in a traditional contractor/consultant role. I have been impressed by Sharlen’s staff they provided at St. James Hospitals and Clinics for numerous projects, including the 2000 Master Plan project, which was a substantial addition to their existing Olympia Fields campus. In particular, Don Voss as the project manager has been the best I’ve ever had the privilege of working with. Our relationship was more of teaming and not the “traditional” adversarial role. Don was always ahead of the game, looking ahead and not waiting till issues were in a time-sensitive crisis. This gave us time to plan a correct course that served the owner’s best long-term needs. His leadership and advance planning made Sharlen Electric a stand out in my opinion. In-so-much, when asked by clients for recommendations for electrical contracting, Sharlen Electric is always at the top of my list.

We have worked with Sharlen Electric on many projects over the years. These projects have been performed on a traditional bid basis, design-assist, and design-build process in a wide variety of markets such as educational, residential, institutional, and interior buildout. They have demonstrated their expertise in preconstruction, BIM technology, and quality. The projects have all been done very successfully for both the owner and O’Neil. They have proven to be good business partners, dependable, responsive, and fair. We would highly recommend Sharlen for any type of projects and view them as a preferred contractor.

Sharlen Electric has been a subcontractor to many of our award-winning designs. They are not just responsive, but they do share a concern to improve quality while maintaining a tight grip on costs. We couldn’t ask for more.