BUFFTREE BUILDING COMPANY

Bufftree Building Company built some of the SouthCoast's public landmarks — a Mashpee library, a Wellfleet fire station, hotel and museum work in downtown New Bedford, and institutional buildouts across Cape Cod — and the people who hired it for those jobs spoke well of the results. In a 2010 interview, a project manager with more than 25 years in construction and project management called Bufftree “by far one of the best contractors I have ever worked with in the municipal sector,” citing the quality of the work and how the crew treated clients. Two years earlier, the CEO of a New Bedford nonprofit said its construction team “was a pleasure to work with from start to finish” after an office renovation. That written record runs from roughly 2000 through 2010 — a New Bedford-based commercial contractor's history of libraries, hotels, fire stations, and institutional buildouts, with nothing on file since. In 2002, a Martha's Vineyard reconstruction project drew complaints from neighboring business owners about the noise of driving steel pilings; the company's own project manager called the disruption unavoidable. This is a commercial and municipal builder's track record, not a residential remodeling one — the projects here are libraries, hotels, and nonprofit offices, not home renovations. Anyone considering them for a homeowner project should confirm directly what kind of work they currently take on, since nothing on file is newer than 2010.