FDL Star Construction

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Native American owned construction company

Our Mission

FDL Star Construction is to provides Native American people with careers inside and outside surrounding reservations within the construction industry.

FDL Star Construction continuously strives to become the Midwest’s premier Native American contractor and provide the construction industry with an understanding of the indigenous communities’ core values and what is needed to work within their boundaries.

FDL Star Construction team at project site
FDL Star Construction team at project site
FDL Star Construction team at project site

Services

General
Contracting

From the smallest of projects to multimillion-dollar buildings, FDL Star can custom build to the customer’s needs from the footings to the final trim, and everything in between. Our management team and foreman have decades of experience in the commercial and industrial markets. 

concreate walls

pouring concrete

Demolition
and Disposal

The knowledgeable experience the FDL Star Team has will guide you through all your demolition needs. From 100-year-old buildings to contaminated soils and liquids, we can bring you through the proper channels and paperwork needed to reduce customer risk.

Demolition is no longer a smash-and-grab process. Surveys will be done on the front end of the project with documentation throughout the project. FDL Star will provide the right process for any type of project.

contaminated soil clean up

Waterlines
and Septic

FDL Star provides complete installation and repair on water services for hydrants, sewer lines, and septic installation for all residential, commercial, and industrial buildings.

Welding

Our certified welders can complete a variety of structural and mechanical welding projects ranging in sizes up to 48” pipe. 

Remote
Valve Sites

The FDL Star team has installed approximately 500 remote valve sites over the last 30 years, from installing new fencing to cutting in a new valve at a new site on new and existing oil and gas lines of varying sizes and degrees 

Pipeline
Management

To help customers manage their new or existing pipeline, FDL Star can install DRA skids, densitometers, and flowmeters.

Foundations
and Platforms

FDL Star provides complete installation of any size concrete foundations and platforms for any application, design, and configuration.

Painting and
Coating

Our team is well-versed in the application of both above-ground and below-ground painting and coating projects of all sizes. FDL Star Construction exclusively uses Sherwin-Williams products for all of our projects.

Hydrovac/Suc
Trucks

With 17 trucks readily available 24 hours a day, FDL Star can handle any size vac-ing project from potholing, jetting, oil extraction, and large excavations.

Civil Work

The FDL Star team provides all aspects of Civil Work from roads, driveways, site prep, seeding, erosion control, containment ponds, helical installation, rip rap placement, bank restoration, and flood control.

construction truck unloading mats

Right-Of-Way

Contact FDL Star for all your ROW needs from clearing, maintenance, erosion control, restoration, clearing of pipelines and powerlines, and matting for access.

Clearing trees

Clearing trees

Cathodic
Protection

FDL Star is certified in the installation of shallow well, deep well, and linear anodes for both galvanic and impressed current systems.

FDL Star Team

Kimberly Kastern
President

Kim Kastern is a native tribal member of The Bad River LaPointe Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians.

Kim understands the needs of a customer with over 20 years of experience in general contracting, including decades of self-employment as the owner and operator of two food industry businesses.

Fond Du Lac Star in short FDL Star, is an Indigenous contracting company founded in 2020 and originating in Superior, Wisconsin to facilitate the need for a Native American owned and operated commercial construction company. We have the unique opportunity to provide services nationwide on and off the reservations with our experienced and qualified team. Our goal is to provide a place where Native American people can find opportunities inside and outside the surrounding reservations in the construction industry. We dedicate our company as the region’s premier Native American contractor while providing the industry an understanding of the core values of the indigenous communities and the knowledge to do work within their boundaries.

FDL Star is a full-service general contracting business dedicated to every person based on the needs of their projects and is built on the foundation of trust, integrity, quality, and craftsmanship. We build personal relationships with communication and dedication to excellence.

Jesse Wick
Vice President/Project Manager

Jesse Wick started in the construction industry in 1995 as a Field Electrician. In the early 2000’s Jesse became a Foreman on residential, commercial, and large-scale industrial projects ranging in budgets up to $4M in the northeastern and central United States.

In 2014 Jesse moved into the role of project manager/estimator concentrating on the commercial and oil and gas industry, and continues to be involved in the day-to day operations of several projects.

In 2022 Jesse Wick became a partner in FDL Star Construction, overseeing the daily operations of the company. He is bringing with him over 28 years of experience in the construction industry.

Jenniffer Groski Administrative Assistant/AP/AR

FDL Star Construction project site
construction truck unloading mats
FDL Star Construction project site
FDL Star Construction project site
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