Precision Built in the Pacific Northwest

UL listing means our shop is audited by Underwriters Laboratories for electrical safety, and every illuminated sign we build — LED channel letters, halo-lit dimensional letters, cabinet signs, EMC displays — ships with a UL label that confirms the wiring, transformer, disconnect, and grounding meet national safety code. It’s also what makes our signs straightforward to permit through city electrical reviewers across Washington. More on the permit side over on our sign permitting page.

Standard exterior signs: aluminum sheet and tube (.063 and .125 for faces, structural for posts), powder-coated or wet-painted to automotive-grade finishes. Illuminated faces: acrylic and polycarbonate for backlit work, tensioned flex face for large cabinets. Architectural and monument work: structural steel, hybrid composites (ACM / Dibond), and cast or fabricated bronze — the University of Washington Bronze W shown in the hero is one example. Interior ADA signs: photopolymer, etched acrylic, and engraved phenolic. We pick the material to the site, the load, and the climate — not the other way around.

Lead time depends on the sign type and what’s upstream of the build. Straightforward wall signs and dimensional letters typically run two to four weeks in the shop once a fabrication-ready CAD package is in hand. Engineered free-standing signs — monuments, pylons, multi-cabinet structures with structural footings — usually run six to twelve weeks, with the variable being the city permit and engineering stamp turnaround rather than the build itself. Multi-site programs (national chain rollouts, hospital systems) get scoped per location and run in parallel. We quote a real schedule once we’ve seen the drawings, not before.

Yes — for monument signs, large cabinet faces, custom-finish samples, and any program where the client needs to see materials in person before greenlighting production. We build digital mockups, scale models, 3D-printed components, and lighting samples in the shop, plus full-scale finish swatches that show how a paint or coating reads at distance. The goal is to kill design surprises before the steel is cut.

Yes. ADA tactile and braille signage is a standard interior fabrication line for us — raised-character height and stroke per ADAAG, Grade 2 braille, non-glare finishes, and contrast ratios that pass inspection. We supply ADA signage as part of full healthcare, education, and corporate-campus programs, and we coordinate room-numbering schemes with property managers so the install doesn’t kick a city occupancy review back. The compliance details get worked into the drawing package on the design side before fabrication begins.

Yes. We’ve delivered multi-site programs including the Timberland Bank multi-location rebrand, MultiCare hospital and clinic signage across Western Washington, and chain restaurant rollouts — all with consistent fabrication standards, brand-controlled finish specs, and per-location permit packets. One project manager owns the program, one shop builds the signs, and one install team coordinates each site. That’s the difference between a national rollout that ships on schedule and one that fragments across regional sub-vendors.

Yes — we regularly fabricate from architect, designer, and brand-team drawings supplied as DWG, PDF, or vector art. If the package is fabrication-ready (dimensions, materials, mounting details, electrical specs called out), we go straight to shop drawings. If it’s a concept-level rendering, our in-house design team takes it through engineering and code review before fabrication starts. Either path lands in the same UL-listed shop with the same QC.

Once a sign clears finishing and QC in the shop, it gets UL-tested if illuminated, photo-documented for the project file, crated or palletized, and dispatched on our trucks (Washington, Oregon, Idaho) or freight (out of region). Installation is coordinated by the same project manager who owned the fabrication phase — structural anchoring, electrical hookup, final city inspection, and close-out. Service and repair after the install lives over on our Service & Repair page.