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Tech solutions in healthcare

Healthcare construction faces complex challenges and labor shortages, but technology can improve efficiency, reducing costs and enhancing coordination. Tools such as VR, AR, laser scanning, BIM and 3D modeling streamline planning, design and installation, ensuring quality, minimizing disruption and accelerating schedules for critical healthcare facility projects.

September 23, 2025
Virtual construction & technology
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Embodied Carbon

Buildings generate nearly 39% of global carbon emissions, with embodied carbon a major contributor. To address this, Pepper Construction developed an Embodied Carbon Database (ECD) using life cycle assessments of past projects. The ECD enables data-driven decisions, material comparisons, and early design strategies, accelerating industry-wide decarbonization toward net zero.

September 17, 2025
High performance & sustainability
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Family Values

With the season for gratefulness, thankfulness and generosity approaching, we would like to recognize a few of the many, many people that make Pepper Construction a true family business. 

November 4, 2024
People
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Butler University New Sciences Complex

At Butler University, Pepper worked over the course of four years to deliver a Sciences Complex that balances the university’s history and legacy with the needs of modern STEM education.

May 20, 2024
Healthcare, Science + Technology, Education
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Weathering the storm

Pepper Construction spent more than a year erecting Building 6 of the Mohr Logistics Park in Whiteland, Indiana, 1 million square feet of office and warehouse space spread out next to Interstate 65 and located about 20 miles south of Indianapolis. 

April 1, 2024
Community involvement
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The ideation of our Net Zero Trailer

What does it take to turn a concept into reality?  We weren't the first to think about building a Net Zero trailer, but we were the first to build and use one on our projects. Learn the process we took to figure out how to make it reality - and how it's making a difference for our team. 

April 13, 2022
High performance & sustainability, Virtual construction & technology
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NDI: Building a holistic approach to mental health

Indiana NeuroDiagnostic Institute stands as a new model of care for behavioral health patients and hospital staff. From incorporating Biophilia, to an extensive amount of mockups, to using Augmented Reality for field verification, it also required the highest level of care during construction to make it a safe reality.

December 17, 2019
Healthcare, Science + Technology
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Building WELL for ourselves

We're building a new open concept office in Dublin, Ohio to be WELL Silver certified because we believe our people deserve a space that helps them perform at their best. It's exciting and a lot of change. Join us on our journey as we share what it's like for us to be the client, the builder and the WELL consultant - and how we hope to be a better partner because of it.

September 10, 2019
High performance & sustainability, About Pepper
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A revitalization that continues to invest

The Homan Arthington Foundation had a vision to revitalize the historic North Lawndale neighborhood, which included transforming the former Sears, Roebuck and Co. campus into a green charter high school.

August 16, 2019
Historic, Education