Trinity Unified Construction Inc.
ABOUT US
Trinity Unified Construction is an Experienced Full Service Owner operated General Contractor with 60 Years in the NYC Building Industry. We specialize in Construction Build Outs of Office and Retail space in NYC and also perform Residential & Commercial New Construction, Building Gut Rehabilitations, Building Renovations, Design Build, Real Estate Development and more.
We unite a Team of construction industry professionals; Architects, Engineers, Developers, Joint venture partners that we work with that produces a synergy that meets the needs of our client’s, whether your project is small or large - simple or complex.
BEST IN THE INDUSTRIES
We bring our wealth of Age Old Experience, Wisdom & Old School Work Ethics to ever project we undertake - we know the NYC construction industry environment and get things done right the first time. The three owners take a hand’s on approach in the field as well as one on one personalized client service. We incorporate modern technology to streamline management & communication which increases productivity and reduces overhead cost enabling us to pass the savings onto our clients.
MEET THE FOUNDERS
Robert Schmidt
V.P. Sales
Born and raised in New York City, Bob was brought up in a blue-collar family that instilled in him an old-school work ethic characterized by hard work, integrity, and honesty. Gifted with a natural talent for working with his hands, he took on various side jobs for local businesses to help his family make ends meet. One of these jobs involved building wooden boxes and shelves for warehouses. After graduating high school in 1960, Bob joined the NYC Laborers Union and began his career at Teller Paving Company as a laborer, building highways in the Bronx. His dedication and hard work paid off when he joined the NYC Carpenters Union in 1963 as an apprentice. He started off mixing plaster and installing the traditional gypsum block and plaster partition wall system. By the late 1960s, he transitioned to installing the first drywall and metal stud partition wall system projects in the NYC construction industry. In 1970, Bob’s hard work, honesty, and craftsmanship caught the attention of Irving and Aaron Chanin, the owners and architects of the famous Chanin Building on 42nd Street in NYC. They encouraged Bob to establish Pacific Construction, which quickly became the in-house carpentry contractor for the Chanin Building, performing all their work from 1970 through the 1980s. Over his career, Bob has built over a million square feet of commercial office space, with a construction value of over 100 million dollars, for well-known clients and contractors in some of the world’s most renowned NYC buildings. Now at 80 years old, Bob is just getting started and is looking forward to the next 20 years in the NYC construction industry. Coming full circle, Bob, also known as Captain Bob, teamed up with his long-time friends and construction colleagues, Larry Clohessy and Larry Rufa, to form Trinity Unified Construction Inc., a full-service general contractor in NYC. They have been working together in the construction industry for over twenty-five years.
Born and raised in NYC he grew up in a blue collar family of which worked in the construction Industry and he maintained the family properties until graduating High School in 1980. After Graduation he enrolled in Apex Trade School in NYC for a nine month welding technology program then entered the work force in the various welding trade industry sectors for three years; Iron Works Fabrication Shop, Shipyard, Industrial Mechanical Pipe Company contracted by New York Tri-State area Oil refineries & Tank Farm Companies. Furthering his career he attended Wagner & Dowling College’s full time from 1983-1985 Majoring in Aerodynamics/ Applied Mathematics, obtaining a private pilot license and considering a career as an Air Force Pilot until a FAA medical uncovered a vision problem which prevented him being considered by the Air Force Academy – while attending college he purchased equipment (Dump truck & Bobcat) and opened his own company installing swimming pools during summer break. Leaving college and selling his swimming pool company & equipment he obtained he entered into the Real Estate Industry from 1986-1988 obtaining a Real Estate Sales Person license and was hired by Century 21 Metalios R.E. Queens, NY (The number one Century 21 Franchise Office in the system in worldwide house sales 1983-1989) Listing and Selling houses in addition to purchasing and renovating his own investment houses. When an opportunity was presented to him he started AAI Environmental an NYC based Asbestos Abatement Company which he owned and operated from 1989 – 1998 performing millions of dollars of asbestos abatement, re-insulation and construction restoration work direct for the NYCHA, NYCSCA, NYCDDC, NYCHPD,DASNY and private organizations such as Century Condominium, Shubert Organization’s Winter Garden Theater, Guggenheim Museum and as a subcontractor for leading NYC General Contractors. In 1999 he decided to pursue his true passion, construction, and with Larry Rufa started LCR General Construction company, 1999-2021, and performed various interior commercial space build out and renovation construction projects and supervising the construction of NYC School buildings. Coming full circle, long time friends and construction colleagues for over twenty five years, Larry Clohessy, Robert Schmidt and Larry Rufa decided to team up and form Trinity Unified Construction Inc.
Larry Clohessy
President/ Owner
Born in a suburb of Rome Italy and coming to NYC at the age of twelve quickly learning English and graduating H.S. in 1973 he worked in food retail business while working as a part time laborer in construction. Pursuing his true passion he opened up LVS Construction Company at age Twenty Five with his two brothers, 1980-1990, and performed millions of dollars of total Gut Rehabilitation Projects in multiple buildings in upper Manhattan. Diversifying his construction experience he decided to join the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Union NYC, 1990-2006, and quickly worked himself up -thru hard work, innate knowledge, natural construction talents & leadership qualities- from Shop Steward to Lead Foreman running crews up to seventy five men for some of the biggest General Contractors in the industry at the time -Component Assembly Systems Inc., Eastern Acoustics Co., Pacific Contracting Co. & Builders Group - building out hundreds of thousands of square feet of Office & Retail space in NYC – Tiffany’s, 65 Broad St., 55 Water St. are some of the larger projects completed under his supervision. Deciding the time was right he started LLJS Development Corp. with his two brothers and Larry Clohessy, 2004-2012, built a Speculation house on a small piece of property he owned in Greene county upstate NY to test the market and sold it at a comfortable profit and then started the extensive approval process to develop his adjacent 150 acre tract land into a 150 unit residential housing retirement community with a golf course. Simultaneously he partnered with the land owner of a 77 acre tract of land near Windham Ski Resort NY to develop that into twelve luxury homes however due to the fallout of Subprime Mortgage Crisis of 2008 the projects had to be shelved. About the same time period he partnered up with Larry Clohessy full time in LCR Construction of NY, 2006-2021, and performed various smaller residential house renovations and interior commercial Office, School, Daycare & Retail space build out projects. Coming full circle, long time friends and construction colleagues for over twenty five years, Larry Clohessy, Robert Schmidt and Larry Rufa decided to team up and form Trinity Unified Construction Inc.