Industrial and Commercial General Contractors
New Braunfels, TX

The manufacturing base in New Braunfels is substantial and often overlooked in conversations about the city. Companies like Emerson Electric, Caterpillar Financial, and numerous precision manufacturers operate facilities in the industrial parks along Highway 46 and the I-35 corridor. Those facilities require industrial-grade floor systems engineered to handle forklift traffic, racking loads, and in some cases chemical exposure. We have poured manufacturing floors to tensile strength specifications published by the equipment manufacturers, and we work from structural drawings rather than rule-of-thumb thickness estimates.

The limestone bedrock that sits under much of Comal County — part of the same Edwards Plateau formation that defines the Texas Hill Country — creates a geotechnical situation that is the opposite of the clay soils common elsewhere in Central Texas. Where clay requires moisture conditioning and stabilization, rock outcrops require saw-cutting, drilling, or blasting before any foundation work can begin. Transitional zones where limestone and clay exist on the same site are the trickiest: differential settlement risk is real, and the foundation design has to address it explicitly. Inner Loop Construction has built in both soil conditions and knows how to read the geotechnical report before committing to an approach.

The Gruene historic district and New Braunfels's German heritage architecture also influence commercial development in the city. Decorative hardscape, exposed aggregate site concrete, and stamped flatwork that complements limestone-and-wood building aesthetics are recurring requests for projects in and around the historic core. We produce decorative finishes to match the design intent without sacrificing long-term durability in a climate that cycles between summer heat and occasional ice events.

Inner Loop Construction covers New Braunfels with a full commercial and industrial construction scope: tilt-wall warehouse shells, manufacturing floor systems, multifamily podium and site concrete, retail and hospitality site packages, and flex-industrial construction along the I-35 growth corridor. We work from Houston and mobilize to Comal County with the same crew quality we bring to every other Texas market we serve.