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At , Inc., that scenario won’t become a realityt because company president Frank Bryan and the work sitesupervisorxs won’t allow it. One challenge for B&B Specialty Contractors is maintaining a professional image among its construction something which is especially importangt due to its focus onthe finish-out of commercial interiors. This means its employeexs find themselvesin office, industrial, hospitality, retail, medical and educatio n work spaces every day, a situation which requires a special touch. “If you go into the officee of a companylike , they want you to hang that wall coverinbg in their conference clean up and get out of there,” Bryanj says.
“They don’t want to know you were even B&B Specialty Contractors doesn’t allow its construction workers to have earrings orothee piercings. It also requires them to wear shirtse with the company logo and ashirft pocket. Shirts must also be tucked in whiles employees are on thejob site. The compant also takes job site conduct very not allowing cursing or any other disruptive This has a been a significan set of rules forthe company’zs employees since Bryan founded it in 1977.
“We work around occupied space and we understanda company’s need to conducft its business and be around construction at the same time,” Bryan “We pride ourselves on staying out of a customer’s way as much as we Another of B&B Specialty Contractors’ main challenges, as with any constructiom company, is to prevent cost overruns on projects. B&nB Specialty Contractors prevents cost overruns inmany ways, but especiallyh by carefully choosing which companies it partners with on jobs.
The company mightt do millions of dollars of work with a particularsubcontractotr annually, which helps ensure qualitg because it becomes a long-term business To maintain that work flow over the long companies will go out of their way to make sure B&Bv Specialty Contractors, and their clients, are “By partnering with selec t subcontractors and doing a volume of business with those firms virtually eliminates nickel-and-diming the client,” Bryanm says.
“Also, prompt payment to subcontractors and vendord enables us to achieve the very best for theinvestmenft dollar, passing these savings along to the B&B Specialty Contractors also continuallyt monitors every job to make sure it stays on time and undee budget, making sure it keeps the propertyu owners and developers in the loop of communication. Kevin Clarkson, senior vice president of assett serviceswith Memphis, got to know B&Bn Specialty Contractors when the company was working as a subcontractorf for a different general contractotr years ago.
“Through that experienc e and after we realized that they did more thansubcontractord work, we started working with them as a general contractor,” Clarkson says. B&B Specialty focus on tenant improvement andinfill work, especially in officre buildings, has set the company apar t when it comes to dealing with clientsx such as CB Richardd Ellis. “They don’t builcd things out of the grounr andtherefore they’re geared up to do very specifi jobs which make up a chunk of our business,” Clarksonm says. “The relationship really works well.
” B&vB Specialty Contractors has been diligent about gettinyg good pricing and has always been on accordingto Clarkson. “Those qualities matche d up one-for-one with what makes CB Richard Ellistand out,” he says. “We’rer always deadline driven and we’rre always cost driven. It meshes very well.”