Fulton Davenport — Owner & Principal

Fulton Davenport founded Alquimia Inc. after years working at the intersection of architecture, building science, and high-end residential construction in Houston. He has managed architect-driven custom home builds, complex whole-home renovations in Houston’s most demanding residential high-rises, rural land builds across the Hill Country and East Texas, and passive house projects at the leading edge of high-performance construction in a Texas climate.

He started Alquimia because he believed there was a gap between what architects were designing and what most general contractors were capable of building — not in craft alone, but in the integration of building science, structural coordination, and mechanical systems that determine whether a project performs over decades rather than just looking right on completion day.

Every Alquimia project is managed personally by Fulton from the first conversation through the final walk-through. Not a project manager who reports to him. Not an estimator who hands off to a superintendent. He — on-site, in the drawings, accountable for every decision.

Background

• Architecture, building science, and high-end residential construction across Houston and Texas
• Architect-driven custom home builds
• Whole-home renovations in Houston’s luxury residential high-rises
• Rural land builds: Hill Country, East Texas, Gulf Coast
• Passive house and high-performance construction
• Cost-plus project management — full financial transparency on every project

The Specialists Who Execute the Work

Alquimia does not maintain a permanent crew kept busy across every project type. The model is different: for each project, Fulton brings in the best specialist available for every specific challenge.

This is how expertise actually works in construction. The tile installer who has spent fifteen years working exclusively with large-format porcelain has a depth of knowledge about substrate preparation, lippage tolerances, and the behavior of setting materials that no generalist crew can match. The mechanical contractor who sizes equipment based on actual Manual J load calculations — rather than rule-of-thumb square-footage estimates — produces a result that performs differently. The structural welder whose tolerances are the tightest in the market is not interchangeable with a crew that welds alongside a dozen other trades.

The specialist network Alquimia has built over years of Houston construction work includes:

Structural engineers

who review drawings before field decisions are made — not after.

Mechanical contractors

who design HVAC and ventilation systems from building science principles: load calculations, envelope performance data, and the actual humidity and pressure conditions of Houston’s climate.

Waterproofing specialists

whose standard is a system that contains moisture, not one that delays its migration for a few years before the callbacks start.

Tile and stone installers

whose large-format work is set to the tolerances the material requires, not the tolerances that are fastest.

Structural welders

whose work can be photographed and shown to a client with pride.

Passive house consultants and certifiers

who bring the technical depth that high-performance envelope design in a hot-humid climate requires.

Knowing who to call is the expertise. The specialist network is the product.

Why One Principal and the Right Specialists Outperform a Large Staff

A general contracting firm that grows by hiring project managers who manage other project managers has made a decision: scale the business at the expense of the work. The client who signs with a principal and ends up managed by a succession of intermediaries is not receiving what they thought they were paying for.

At Alquimia, there is no succession of intermediaries. There is Fulton Davenport, who read your drawings, who is on site when the waterproofing goes in, who reviewed the framing before it was closed, who walks the project with you at completion.

And for every technical challenge that the project presents, there is the specialist who knows that challenge better than anyone else available, not the crew that was already on payroll and needed to stay busy.

This is how a home gets built correctly. And it is the only model Alquimia operates under.