CODY STUBBLEFIELD
PARTNER | DIRECTOR OF PRECONSTRUCTION
EMAIL CODY: cstubblefield@pillarco.com
ABOUT
Cody Stubblefield lives in Apison, Tennessee with his wife Anna and two dogs, Boomer and Blu. As a little kid, he enjoyed building things, which sparked his interest in the construction industry. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Marketing from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, and has worked in multiple sectors of the construction industry on the preconstruction front, developing considerable expertise in the industrial, healthcare, and higher education sectors.
He got his start in the industry with a smaller local construction group, where he worked in the field and gathered the understanding of what it takes to keep projects on the right track, as well as the inner workings of the construction process. He then moved to a larger company, where he found his true passion in the industry — preconstruction — collaborating with owners and design teams to bring projects from a “napkin sketch idea” to a reality.
Cody sets projects up for success with accurate budgets, realistic schedules, and thorough logistics plans — all with safety and quality of utmost importance. The early (conceptual and schematic) design budgets he puts together are thorough and accurate. He does an excellent job "filling the gaps" in preliminary design drawings and conceptual narratives. While preconstruction can involve telling clients things they don’t want to hear — like a project is over budget, for example — Cody is honest and accurate in providing options to get the project where it needs to be.
During his free time, Cody is usually doing one of three things: hunting, fishing, or running.
PAST PROJECTS
Cody worked hand in hand with a local logistic company, US Xpress, on multiple trucking terminal renovations and additions across the nation, ranging in construction cost from $3 million to $12 million. These projects consisted of office spaces, truck maintenance shops, large parking areas for trucks and trailer parking, and more.
He has worked on large builds for both Chattanooga State Community College and the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. The University Center renovation at UTC was a large multi-phase renovation with many moving parts. Cody, along with the construction and design team, developed detailed logistic plans and detailed budgets with the help of local trade partners to ensure that the building would remain operational throughout construction, as well as provide the university with budget certainty.
Cody is especially proud of completing numerous national healthcare projects with clients like HCA Healthcare, Baptist Health, Erlanger Health System, Parkridge Medical Center, and Lifepoint Health. Two of the projects he worked on — a pediatric procedure buildout for Erlanger Children’s Hospital Pediatric and the Parkridge East freestanding emergency room at Camp Jordan — included exam rooms, imaging rooms (with CT, X-Ray and MRI), trauma rooms, and behavioral health rooms. While both projects were hard bid projects, Cody and the teams worked diligently to provide the clients not only with the target budget they were looking for, but also within the desired project timeframe.