AMPAM Parks Mechanical

AMPAM Parks Mechanical

AMPAM Parks Mechanical operates as a specialty design-build contractor focused on multifamily residential construction across California. Buddy Parks started with the firm as a laborer in the 1970s and grew it into a regional trade partner with dedicated plumbing, mechanical, and electrical divisions. The company is led by CEO Payman Farrokhyar, who joined after scaling engineering-services businesses across the Western US; President John Parks and Chairman Buddy Parks remain involved in operations and client relationships. AMPAM’s core offering covers design, engineering, fabrication, and field installation. Its in-house engineering team provides CAD/REVIT and BIM modeling for the full project lifecycle. The firm runs a 50,000-square-foot prefabrication warehouse in Carson that bundles and packages pipe configurations for faster on-site layout. Key project types include podium and slab-on-grade multifamily buildings, hospitality, senior housing, student housing, and mixed-use high-rises. Named clients have not been disclosed publicly beyond the firm’s website references to “esteemed clients” in multifamily residential and hospitality. The company operates five California offices: headquarters in Carson, an electrical division in El Cajon, a mechanical division in Corona, and regional offices in San Diego and Fremont. The leadership team includes Vice Chairman Chris Kennedy, who joined in 2023 and previously held roles at Western National, and COO Lewis Averill, an aerospace and construction veteran with decades of systems-management experience. The firm’s scale — in terms of revenue, employee count, or annual deployment — has not been publicly reported. Unlike general contractors or pure subcontractors, AMPAM retains an integrated fabrication facility and a full in-house design-engineering team, which allows the firm to shorten construction schedules for multifamily developers by controlling both prefabrication and field installation. This structure makes it a direct trade partner to general contractors rather than a labor broker, a position that has anchored 40-plus years of repeat business in the California multifamily market.