About La Casa Builders
For more than 30 years, La Casa Builders Inc. in Scottsdale, Arizona, has balanced the rugged beauty of the Sonoran Desert with artistic design and meticulous building practices to create custom homes for clients in Arizona and throughout the Southwest. Start to finish, La Casa Builders does this with Integrity, Honesty and Initiative.
Co-founder Tim Larson, associate partner Matt Haenel and their 13 employees team with home-owners, realtors, architects, engineers and interior designers for this client-centric process. This includes the acquisition of land for a new-build or a renovations, conceptual design and budgets, construction and post-delivery concierge maintenance services.
Tim completed his technical institute general contracting training in 1979 and opened a construction firm in native Minnesota. In 1985, he and his family moved to Arizona where he founded a company specializing in residential custom cabinetry and carpentry –– skills which continue to generate experienced-based guidance for office and onsite employees.
After graduating high school, Haenel began working for La Casa Builders during the summer of 2005. That fall, he entered the Construction Management Program at the Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. During the next four years, he worked during the summers and winters for the company and continued his studies until graduating in 2009.
He immediately began working full time as a Project Coordinator. Five years later, he became a Superintendent, and in 2019 he moved up to Vice President of Operations. This involved oversite of the project superintendents and carpentry staff as well as coordinating client relations once projects were completed. He has worked on a range of projects including bathroom remodels, full renovations and custom homes as large as a 20,351-square-foot hillside Paradise Valley residence.
With unparalleled dedication and skill, the La Casa Builders team offers its experience and expertise to complete a successful design and building process –– reducing the stress and increasing the joy of building their clients’ dreams
Build Green
La Casa Builders is proud to incorporate green building standards into the planning and construction of our homes to minimize energy consumption as well as improve the health of those who live in them. Our two most recent examples of Green Homes can be found in the Gallery section of this website under “Mediterranean” and in the Build to Suit section under “Desert Highlands”. Both homes are built to all Scottsdale Green Building Program specifications.
The Green Building Program has been developed to help reduce the environmental impact of residential, commercial, and industrial building across our nation. La Casa makes every effort to help our clients choose the most energy efficient heating and cooling systems as well as insulation, airtight ducts, air filters, lighting, appliances, and plumbing fixtures designed to reduce negative environmental impact. Efficient placement and use of doors and windows with high performance glass can mean savings in energy use as well as utility bills. A green home uses less energy, water, and natural resources, creates less waste, and is healthier for the people living inside.
For more information on our Green Building Program, please contact us.
La Casa Builders wins the Award of Merit at the 2007 Gold Nugget Competition
Scottsdale, Arizona
June 1, 2007
La Casa Builders Inc. emerged as the winner of the Award of Merit in the category of Best Custom Home over 10,000 square feet at the Gold Nugget Awards last night. The Gold Nugget celebrated Grand Merit Award winners in San Francisco at a gala attended by more than 800 real estate professionals. Celebrating its 44th year, the Gold Nugget Awards is the premier event of the PCBC, the annual trade show and conference of the Western building industry. This award honors design and planning excellence from 14 Western states and all international countries, and its 2007 winners flag emerging trends in such development areas as green and sustainable design, mixed-use, seniors and affordable housing, specialty designs, site and land planning, and a broad range of custom, detached, and attached new home designs.
Gold Nugget Awards judges selected the 2007 honorees in a three-day evaluation of 577 entries. Grand Award projects were from Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, and Washington in the U.S. International honorees were from China and Japan. These honors were chosen from a pool of Merit Award winners that included also projects from Hawaii, Texas, Australia, British Columbia/Canada, and Puerto Rico.
“I believe the level of quality in the construction of a custom home directly impacts the success of the design,” said Tim Larson, President of La Casa Builders. “We take great care to adhere to strict standards of excellence in every facet of the construction. This award coming from PCBC is a great acknowledgment of our dedication and performance in this industry.” PCBC sponsors the Gold Nugget Awards, the oldest and largest program of its kind in the United States. BUILDER magazine, the official publication of the National Association of Home Builders, is the principal Media co-sponsor. Circulating to more than 200,000 industry professionals, BUILDER covers the nation’s building and development news and will feature selected Gold Nugget winners in an upcoming issue.
Awards & Recognition
Phoenix Business Journal Top Custom Home Builder
2011, 2012, 2014, 2015
Award of Merit Gold Nugget for Best Custom Home over 10,000 square feet
2007
The Arizona Contractors Association Safety Vanguard Award
2002, 2004, 2005, 2006
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