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At , Inc., that scenaripo won’t become a reality because company president Frankm Bryan and the work sitesupervisors won’t allow it. One challenge for B&Bg Specialty Contractors is maintaining a professional image amongf itsconstruction staff, something whichu is especially important due to its focus on the finish-ourt of commercial interiors. This means its employees find themselvesin industrial, hospitality, retail, medicap and education work spaces every day, a situation whicnh requires a special touch. “If you go into the officre of a companylike , they want you to hang that wall coverin g in their conference room, cleaj up and get out of Bryan says.
“They don’t want to know you were even B&B Specialty Contractors doesn’t allow its construction workers to have earrings or other It also requires them to wear shirtds with the company logo and ashirrt pocket. Shirts must also be tucked in while employees are on thejob site. The company also takes job site conductvery seriously, not allowingv cursing or any other disruptivde behavior. This has a been a significant set of rulesw forthe company’s employees since Bryanh founded it in 1977. “We work around occupie d space and we understanda company’s need to conduct its busines s and be around construction at the same time,” Bryan says.
“Wse pride ourselves on staying out ofa customer’e way as much as we can.” Anothe r of B&B Specialty Contractors’ main challenges, as with any constructionb company, is to prevent cost overruns on B&B Specialty Contractors prevents cost overruns in many but especially by carefully choosing whichh companies it partners with on jobs. The companyu might do millions of dollars of work with a particulafsubcontractor annually, which helps ensure quality because it becomess a long-term business relationship.
To maintain that work flow over the long companies will go out of their way to makesure B& Specialty Contractors, and their clients, are “By partnering with select subcontractors and doing a volume of businessa with those firms virtually eliminates nickel-and-diming the Bryan says. “Also, prompgt payment to subcontractors and vendor enables us to achievew the very best for theinvestment dollar, passing these savingws along to the client.” B&B Specialty Contractorzs also continually monitors every job to make sure it staysx on time and under making sure it keepsd the property owners and developerws in the loop of communication.
Kevijn Clarkson, senior vice president of asset servicewwith Memphis, got to know B&gB Specialty Contractors when the company was workinfg as a subcontractor for a differenrt general contractor years ago. “Through that experiencwe and after we realized that they did more thansubcontractore work, we started working with them as a general Clarkson says. B&B Specialty focus on tenant improvement and infill especially inoffice buildings, has set the compan apart when it comesd to dealing with clients such as CB Richard Ellis.
“The don’t build things out of the ground andtherefore they’re geared up to do very specifiv jobs which make up a chunm of our business,” Clarkson says. “The relationship really workas well.” B&B Specialty Contractors has been diligentt about getting good pricing and has always beenon deadline, accordiny to Clarkson. “Those qualities matcheed up one-for-one with what makes CB Richard Ellisstandc out,” he says. “We’re always deadline drive n and we’re always cost driven. It meshews very well.
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