Costa Rica Development
Costa Rica Development
Thirty years of trade, first on the Mediterranean, today on the Pacific. The construction arm of Costa Rica Development.
Day Builder Group is, before anything else, a trade. Started in Marseille in 1995 by a family that's been pouring foundations, framing walls, and finishing villas for three decades, first along the Mediterranean, today on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
The company is not a developer. It does not subcontract what matters. It builds. Every site is led by in-house crews, every chantier supervised daily, every corps de métier kept under one roof. The way a building is put together, and the way the people who built it know its weaknesses by name, is what makes a villa last twenty years instead of seven.
A construction trade moves with the people who know it. Day Builder Group moved with its family, from the South of France to the Costa Rican Pacific, without ever changing what it does or how.
1995
Residential and small-program construction on the Provence coast. The first sites, the first crews, the first methods that would travel for thirty years.
2000s
Expansion through Provence and the Rhône-Alpes. Individual villas, renovations, custom secondary residences. The first multi-villa programs.
2005 →
Coastal projects across the Costa Brava and Costa del Sol. Multi-villa programs, project management, complex hillside builds.
2014 →
Relocated to Santa Teresa. Residential programs, individual villas, complex hillside constructions, the trade adapted to the tropics, never simplified.
Same crews, same standards, whether the site is one house or twelve. The complexity of the terrain matters more to us than the size of the project.
Bespoke residences, designed and built one at a time. Architecture, structural work, finishings, handled in-house from the first sketch to the keys.
Four to twelve homes, designed as a coherent program. Shared infrastructure, individual identity. Les Roches, La Corniche, La Réserve, all built this way.
Complex hillside foundations, retaining walls, terraced layouts. The kind of site most contractors avoid, the kind we've been doing since the Marseille calanques.
From design and engineering to plumbing, electrical, carpentry, finishings. All trades, all under one roof, no subcontracting of what matters.
Day Builder Group operates with permanent crews, not project-by-project hires. Masons, framers, electricians, plumbers, finishers, trained inside the company, kept across projects, present on every site from the foundation to the handover.
It is the slowest, most expensive way to build. It is also the only way we know to deliver a villa that holds up to twenty seasons of Pacific weather.
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Day Builder · FinishingsA sample of recent and historical works. The full register, more than one hundred projects across three countries, is available on request.
The same protocol from Marseille 1995 to Santa Teresa today. Slow on the foundations, careful on the materials, present on the site every day.
No subcontracting of structural work, electrical, plumbing, or finishings. All trades under one roof.
Every site has a chef de chantier on the ground every day, with weekly inspection from senior management.
Three decades of cumulative knowledge across two continents. The way a wall holds in salt air doesn't get taught in school.
From single villas to residential programs, across France, Spain, and Costa Rica. The full register on request.
Day Builder Group works on its own programs through Costa Rica Development, and accepts a limited number of external commissions a year. Reach out if you have a site that needs to be built well.
