John Welborn
After earning a Bachelor of Science in Building Construction from Auburn University, Mr. Welborn spent more than 25 years in the real estate development and construction industry, working and consulting with private companies and public agencies to provide development planning and financial and construction management services for a variety of project types. Mr. Welborn possesses a comprehensive knowledge and expertise in all phases of real estate development, with particular strengths in land assembly, pre-development planning, project budgeting, conceptual design, construction management, property management and marketing.
Mr. Welborn has provided specialized correctional consulting services to government agencies in the areas of detention medical facility development, planning, design and construction management. Mr. Welborn has been responsible for the planning and development of more than 3 million square feet of commercial projects , and was involved in the construction management of more than 2 million square feet of commercial property for one of the largest general contracting firms in the country.
Mr. Welborn served as the Project Manager on the $59 million Klaus Advanced Computing Building for the Georgia Institute of Technology. The facility has met enough prerequisites and performance benchmarks to be considered LEED Gold. He also directed the program management contract for Georgia State University’s 2 Peachtree Street Annex Building project, a $10 million building systems replacement and interior finishes build out on nine floors occupied by the School of International Studies.
Mr. Welborn has also directed construction project start-up, site analysis and assessment, Design/Build/Operate contracts and county-wide construction programs for criminal justice clients in Texas, California, Georgia and Pennsylvania, as well as many other states.
Mr. Welborn was also a founding principal in a start-up company providing secure, privately funded and professionally operated correctional health care to a sub-acute, geriatric and hospice care prison inmate populations from various local, state and federal correctional agencies throughout the country. In this capacity, he served as the Project Director for the renovation of a former South Carolina State Hospital to make it a 326 bed private medical prison.
