DGA Builders, LLC

The business was established in 1978 by Gary A. Dake. Gary Dake earned his degree from Hobart College in 1967. He served as a pilot in the US Air Force, flying "Jolly Green Giant" rescue helicopters and air refueling tankers in Vietnam. Upon his return, Gary formed the Dake Construction Company in 1978 to service the Monroe County area, later renamed DGA Builders.

Today we work primarily within Western and Central New York, with an additional roster of clients regionally within the Northeastern, Mid-Atlantic, Mid-Western, and Southeastern United States.

With over forty years of business, DGA Builders has developed an extensive, in-depth expertise in numerous construction sectors. DGA Builders specializes in medical, commercial, multi-unit, institutional and industrial construction, and has completed thousands of new construction, expansion, and renovation projects.

DGA Builders is an industry leader in healthcare construction with a deep portfolio of acute care facility development with specialties in high intensity phased occupied renovation, major building additions, facilities infrastructure modernization, departmental phased re-organizations, ICU and Operating Theater construction, and all phases of imaging and radiation suite construction.



DGA Builders is a regional leader in multi-unit construction. With well over 7,000 multi-family housing units totaling over 6.5 million square feet of new construction, DGA Builders is an undeniable industry leader. We have extensive experience in the market rate, senior living, affordable, HCR, HUD housing sectors.

DGA has a passion for safe, ethical, hard-driving, well-managed contracting. We imbue these attributes into our entire construction team. Our construction professionals possess a wide range of technical expertise which allows us to successfully execute projects across a varied number of market segments.