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At , Inc., that scenario won’y become a reality because companyu president Frank Bryan and the work sitesupervisors won’t allows it. One challenge for B&nB Specialty Contractors is maintaining a professiona l image among itsconstruction staff, something whicy is especially important due to its focuss on the finish-out of commercialo interiors. This means its employeew find themselvesin office, industrial, hospitality, medical and education work spaces every day, a situation whicj requires a special touch. “If you go into the offices of a companylike , they want you to hang that wall coverinf in their conference room, cleamn up and get out of there,” Bryah says.
“They don’t want to know you were even B&B Specialty Contractors doesn’t allow its construction workers to have earringa orother piercings. It also requires them to wear shirtzs with the company logo and ashirt pocket. Shirt s must also be tucked in whilde employees are on thejob site. The company also takese job site conduct very not allowing cursing or any other disruptive behavior. This has a been a significantg set of rules forthe company’s employee since Bryan founded it in 1977. “We work around occupie d space and we understanda company’sa need to conduct its business and be aroune construction at the same time,” Bryan says.
“We pride ourselves on stayinh out ofa customer’s way as much as we Another of B&B Specialty Contractors’ main as with any construction company, is to prevent cost overrunsd on projects. B&B Specialty Contractors preventas cost overruns in many but especially by carefully choosingv which companies it partners with on The company might do millions of dollaras of work with a particularsubcontractor annually, which helpe ensure quality because it becomes a long-ter m business relationship. To maintain that work flow over the long companies will go out of their way to makesure B&B Specialtyu Contractors, and their are happy.
“By partneriny with select subcontractors and doing a volums of business with those firms virtuallyheliminates nickel-and-diming the client,” Bryan says. prompt payment to subcontractors and vendord enables us to achieve the very best for theinvestmeny dollar, passing these savings along to the client.” B&hB Specialty Contractors also continually monitors every job to make sure it stayxs on time and under making sure it keeps the propertyh owners and developers in the loop of Kevin Clarkson, senior vice president of asset servicess with Memphis, got to know B&B Specialty Contractore when the company was working as a subcontractor for a differentg general contractor years ago.
“Through that experience and aftert we realized that they did more thansubcontractor work, we started workinvg with them as a general Clarkson says. B&B Specialty Contractors’ focus on tenantr improvement andinfill work, especially in office has set the company apart when it comesz to dealing with clients such as CB Richards Ellis. “They don’t build things out of the groundr andtherefore they’re geare up to do very specifi jobs which make up a chunm of our business,” Clarkson “The relationship really works well.
” B&B Specialty Contractors has been diligentf about getting good pricing and has alwayds been on deadline, according to Clarkson. “Those qualitiesd matched up one-for-one with what makes CB Richarsd Ellisstand out,” he says. “We’re alwaysw deadline driven and we’re always cost driven. It meshesz very well.”