Sea-Dar Construction

Sea-Dar Construction is a Sandwich- and Boston-based construction-management and general-contracting firm that Jean Abouhamad founded in 1991 after a career as a structural engineer and real estate developer. Three decades later it runs five offices — Boston and Sandwich in Massachusetts, plus New York City, Hampton Bays and Greenwich — building and renovating high-end residential, institutional and commercial projects. Its work shows up regularly in the design press rather than on customer-review platforms; there's no written review on file, but the trade coverage is deep and specific. Boston Magazine named it Best Custom Home Builder, Boston in 2024, the same year it won a PRISM Silver award for a single-family home over 8,000 square feet. Its 2016 collaboration with Ruhl Walker Architects, The House of Shifting Sands — a Cape Cod dune house built around a copper-roofed living space — picked up a BRICC award and repeat magazine coverage. The closest thing to a client account comes from a 2022 Cape Cod Life feature: the homeowner said she was happy with the entire team, and the piece describes Sea-Dar backing delivery trucks nearly a mile and a half down a private road to get around a low overpass, and hunting down hard-to-find barn board for a bunkhouse. The firm's range beyond houses shows up too — in 2019 it partnered with West Cambridge Science Park on a ground-up, 14,000-square-foot lab building in Cambridge. One thing worth knowing: U.S. Department of Labor enforcement records show a 2011 OSHA inspection at a North Falmouth site resulted in 5 citations and $3,000 in proposed penalties — dated now, but a real regulatory record worth asking about if it comes up. For a large, architect-driven custom home or a complex commercial build on the Cape or in Boston, Sea-Dar's press record and design-award history are substantial; since there's no platform review history to check, lean on their own project references and recent client contacts before committing.