The superintendent in your interview is the one on your site.

Erik Halvorsen, Founding Partner

Superintendent for fourteen years before starting the firm in 1998. Still walks every healthcare job. If you ask him whether your budget is real, you will get an answer in the meeting rather than a follow-up email.

Dana Roe, Founding Partner

Came out of estimating, which is why this firm prices open-book. Runs preconstruction personally on anything above $30M and has spent twenty-eight years being the person who says the number is wrong before it is agreed.

Marcus Whitfield, Director of Field Operations

Twenty-two years in the field, the last nine here. Owns the superintendent bench and the sequencing on every occupied-building project. The reason the Mercy Health job never closed an operating room.

Priya Raghunathan, Director of Preconstruction

A structural engineer by training, which shows up in the estimates. She is the one who priced surcharging against deep foundations on the Kent County site and saved $1.4M by asking whether the obvious answer was the right one.

Tom Bekkering, Safety Director

Runs a safety programme that has held our experience modification rate at 0.68 for six years. Has stopped our own work more than once, which is the only real test of whether a safety programme is genuine.