The best construction companies in Calgary

There are approximately 68 top-notch construction companies (all categories) in Calgary. If you don’t do your research, there’s a 66.3% chance that you won’t pick one of them for your next project. We’ll list them at the end of this analysis but for now, you might find the following interesting:

In a sample of 476 construction companies in Calgary:

• 35 (7.3%) had no Google reviews
• 229  (48.1%) had fewer than 10 reviews

The reason this is important to note is that getting 9 or fewer fake reviews is not a difficult challenge. This leaves us with 247 construction companies where we can rely on those reviews meaning something.

• 230 have listed their website on Google Maps (or even have one).
• 5 of the 230 don’t have a phone number listed
• 23 of the 225 don’t have an address listed
• Only 202 (42.4%) are set up to properly serve customers

For the remaining 202 Calgary-based construction companies, we applied the following formula to their Google reviews:

• Each 5-Star review was given a score of (5 x .8)
• Each 4-Star review was given a score of (4 x 1)
• Each 3-Star review was given a score of (3 x -1)
• Each 2-Star review was given a score of (2 x -3)
• Each 1-Star review was given a score of (1 x -2)

The rational was to reduce the bivalence of “love’em or hate’em.” Both a 5-star and especially a 1-star tend to have a high degree of bias built in. Weighing the 2-star and 3-star disproportionately might reduce the flaw built in to 5-star reviews.

The results of this method were:

• 66 (32.7%) construction companies getting a truer 5-star rating
• 72 (35.6%) companies companies in a 3.5 to 4-star range
• 46 (22.8%) construction companies in Calgary we could call bad
• 18 (8.9%) construction companies in Calgary that could be considered awful

Who are the best construction companies in Calgary?