About
Rob Van Deren
Rob has been building in Steamboat Springs since 2005. In that time, he's never taken out an ad. Every project has come through a referral, a past client, an architect, someone who watched a build go up and wanted to know who was behind it.
Two decades of the same approach will do that.
He didn't come up through construction in the traditional sense. Rob has two business degrees from Indiana University and spent time running a hedge fund. Rob had been involved in the building trade, off and on, since he was 15. He viewed construction, not as a framer that worked his way up, but he saw where time, money and efficiency were disappearing.
CHS was built around the opposite. Every draw backed by individual vendor invoices. Every CHS trade discount passed to the client. CHS's fee is a single line item, visible from the first draw to the last. Clients who've built with CHS — CEOs, attorneys, multi-generational families — have the sophistication to check every number. They do. Nothing is hidden because nothing needs to be.
Rob also has had exposure in the fields of design and art. This helps with the details that do not appear on the plans: a fireplace finished by hand to hit a specific look, a staircase railing designed from scratch because nothing stock was right, an antique bank vault door, rebuilt for a custom office, because that's a better story than a standard door!
Rob answers his own phone. He also realizes that sometimes a call on a Friday night can be necessary, whether it be a design concept, idea, change, or a simple question, you're not waiting until Monday.
That's been the model since 2005. It's not changing.
