Maser Consulting

: Janice Hoppe-Spiers; Exclusive Features; 24 May 2018

Maser Consulting

Maser Consulting enjoys exponential growth while maintaining a close-knit culture among its people who are its most valuable asset.

By Janice Hoppe-Spiers, Senior Editor at Knighthouse Media

With a diverse portfolio of engineering services, Maser Consulting prides itself on creating customized solutions for its clients in a variety of markets. “Diversity is what has made us so successful,” President and COO Kevin L. Haney says. “Having a wide range of services has served us well over the years by sustaining us during economic market shifts, and now our geography has further contributed to it through the 24 offices we have nationwide."

: Janice Hoppe-Spiers; Exclusive Features; 25 April 2018

Fair and Square Construction

Fair and Square Construction draws on its co-owners’ years of industry experience to ensure projects are delivered on schedule.

By Janice Hoppe-Spiers, Senior Editor at Knighthouse Media

As veteran commercial framing contractors each with 25 years of industry experience, Doug Sweers and George Brigham founded Fair and Square Construction in 2011 to meet a growing demand in west Michigan. “We saw the demand for a commercial framing company that could handle the bigger jobs,” co-owner George Brigham says. “Driven by our background in the industry we pushed forward to build a company with greater manpower and equipment to meet the demand.”

: Tim O'Connor; Exclusive Features; 02 April 2018

NexTraq

NexTraq offers a range of products that help fleet managers turn raw information into actionable solutions.
By Tim O’Connor

Back when telematics provider NexTraq was founded in 2000, data was a lot simpler. Most customers only wanted to know where to find their truck or piece of construction equipment. But in the nearly two decades since the new millennium began, the prevalence of data and the sensors needed to capture that information have fundamentally changed expectations.

Today, everyone has a mobile device – sometimes several – and companies are clamoring to use the information generated by the connected world to discover ways to become increasingly efficient. Fleet managers not only want to know where their trucks are, but they want to dispatch optimized routes and be alerted if drivers are skirting the rules of the road. NexTraq is continuously evolving to stay ahead of those demands by offering an increasing number of add-on services. “The solutions over the years have been tailored to the needs of the customers,” Vice President of Marketing Pankaj Sharma says.

: Tim O'Connor; Exclusive Features; 05 April 2018

ALICE Technologies

ALICE Technologies uses AI to solve construction scheduling challenges.

By Tim O’Connor, Senior Editor at Knighthouse Media

Planning a construction project is a monumentally complex task. It can take months to match the building sequence with the availability of contractors and materials – and even once the schedule is in place there’s no way to tell whether it’s truly the most efficient way to meet all of the project’s goals.

While pursuing his Ph.D. at Stanford, Rene Morkos began to think about how artificial intelligence could be applied to the problem of construction scheduling. The son of a builder, Morkos grew up around construction sites and understood the challenges contractors faced. He had a strong interest in the industry from the time he was young, eventually becoming a foreman during college and later a construction engineer. Through those roles, Morkos learned every facet of what goes into building a project and where the most likely bottlenecks can be found.

: Jim Harris; Exclusive Features; 04 April 2018

Falcon Structures

Photo Credit: The Village of Obetz

Falcon Structures continues to grow its portfolio of projects.
By Jim Harris

The closure of the Columbus Motor Speedway in 2016 left its host, the village of Obetz, Ohio, with both a challenge and an opportunity. The village wanted to redevelop the property with a structure that would be large enough to host the home games of the Ohio Machine, a Major League Lacrosse team; as well as major events such as the popular Obetz Zucchini Festival.

With the Ohio Machine’s first game scheduled in less than a year, the village needed a very large structure built in a short period of time. To solve this problem, the village looked to Falcon Structures.

In summer 2017, Falcon Structures completed the new $15 million stadium, Fortress Obetz. Completing a structure akin to the 6,500-seat, 71,112-square-foot Fortress would normally take two years. However, Falcon Structures needed only six months to pull off the feat.

: Alan Dorich; Exclusive Features; 04 April 2018

EZ-ACCESS

EZ-ACCESS’ aluminum solutions help make access easier for all individuals.
By Alan Dorich

For 34 years, EZ-ACCESS has helped people move beyond barriers. “We believe that people can enjoy life the most when they have the ability to obtain accessibility,” co-owner and CEO Don Everard says.

: Janice Hoppe-Spiers; Exclusive Features; 26 March 2018

Linron Co.

Linron expands its sales market with the launch of decorative overlay flooring it expects to become a significant portion of the business.

By Janice Hoppe-Spiers, Senior Editor at Knighthouse Media

For the past 25 years, Linron Co. has provided floor covering for more than 18,000 retail stores nationwide and covered 2.2 billion square feet. Known as the nation’s leading national accounts distributor for retail chain stores today, the company built its reputation on excellence in customer service.

The Houston-based company was co-founded more than two decades ago by flooring industry veterans Linda Krienke and Ron Harris. The longtime friends met in 1977 when they worked together for a flooring distributor in Texas. In 1993, they decided to start their own company and Linron was born.

“We built this company on service and one word we have never used is ‘no,’” Krienke says. “I’ve gotten calls at 4 p.m. on a Friday from someone who needs flooring tomorrow and there is nothing easy about it, but we take the extra step and get it done. We have always been based on our service.”

: Bianca Herron; Residential; 26 March 2018

Collaborative Construction Management

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Collaborative Construction Management ensures its projects’ success by employing a time-tested formula

with key trade partners and consultants.

By Bianca Herron, Senior Editor at Knighthouse Media

Collaborative Construction Management (CCM) was founded in 1997 with the idea that successful results are achieved by combining creativity, craft and commerce.

Twenty-one years later, the New York City-based company has earned a reputation in the industry as a pioneer of adaptive reuse. CCM has converted 37 former commercial properties – nearly 8 million square feet – into more than 7,600 residential units.

CCM has completed some of the most complex and large-scale conversion projects ever undertaken in New York City, transforming many iconic landmark buildings into today’s most functional and luxurious environments, according to President Michael Siciliani. “We are the undisputed leader in commercial to residential conversions,” Siciliani says. “We tackle large-scale, unusually challenging logistical puzzles. We understand how to work in and around an existing building, sometimes even while occupied.”