SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- To most casual
observers in 2007, the launch of a new construction company amidst
the Great Recession, in a saturated market, just months away from
an industry-stifling subprime mortgage crisis would likely have
inspired little confidence. Still less, perhaps, had they
also seen its co-founder arrive for his first day at work on a
skateboard (he had no car).
But Build Group, Inc. proved wise in ways that conventional
wisdom wasn't a decade ago. And at its ten-year anniversary
celebration at The Mezzanine last week, some 450 customers,
friends, and well-wishers joined Build Group's founders and
employee-owners to showcase one of the keys to the San Francisco-based contractor's
stellar-if-improbable success. What was clearly evident from
the anniversary party is that Build Group knows its customers — and
its customers clearly like Build Group.
Co-founders Ross Edwards and
Eric Horn were already construction
industry veterans when they founded Build Group with little more
than a prayer (literally) and a unique founding vision to learn
their clients' businesses thoroughly, to embrace customers' goals
as their own, and to maintain a hands-on role for principals in all
company projects. Joined from the outset by long-time
colleagues Bob Hopper, Scott Brauninger and Dave Williams the ambitious startup soon after
recruited Nathan Rundel, Ron Yen,
and Todd Pennington to form the
original Build Group team. With a shared commitment to
deliver the highest level of service to customers, the founders
also committed themselves to relentless innovation — beginning with
their own company.
"Right from the start, we saw enormous untapped potential in
creating an innovative company culture that resisted hierarchy,
minimized the need for middle management, and kept principals
closely involved in all our clients' projects," said co-founder
Ross Edwards, who today serves as
Build Group's CEO. "Then as now, it's an approach that
empowers our employee-owners to become expert builders, and that
challenges all of us to better teamwork and ever higher standards
of professional excellence. Ultimately, that's what best
serves our customers. Build Group continually aspires to be
the envy of the marketplace, and it's not solely because of the
knowledgeable, hands-on way we serve our customers. It's also
in the way we grow our company. As an employee-owned
enterprise with 567 staff members, we are all deeply invested in
one another's success. We want Build Group employees to love
their jobs, because that's what develops professional expertise,
and that's what delivers value for our customers. As we
celebrate Build Group's first ten years, we couldn't be more
excited for what the next ten holds."
"One of the innovations for which Build Group is increasingly
well known is how we evolved the role of general contractor beyond
what it traditionally is," said co-founder Eric Horn, who today serves as Build Group's
Chairman. "At Build Group, we prize developing an in-depth
understanding of our clients' businesses as well as their
aspirations for growth. We continue to maintain principal
level involvement in our client projects, and it's an approach that
helps forge relationships with customers who come to see us as an
extension of their own organizations. Customer relationships
mean everything to us at Build Group, and we're proud of a repeat
client base that attests to the value of our approach as well as
our superior quality work. With our ten-year anniversary,
we're not just proud to celebrate our own success as a company —
we're equally blessed to have trusted clients, subcontractors
insurance and banking relationships that are an integral part of
our success. At Build Group, couldn't be more excited for the
future."
Build Group Inc. has grown consistently since it was founded in
2007. With annual contracts approaching $1 billion and annual revenues of $750,000,000, the general contractor specializes
in commercial office space, hospitality, public works, and
residential, mixed use and is complemented by self-performing work
divisions in Structural Concrete, metal studs/drywall and
insulation. Along with its growth, Build Group has won
significant industry recognition for excellence. Honors it
has been awarded include: Inc. Magazine's 500 Fastest
Growing Private Companies; San Francisco Business Times' 100
Fastest Growing Private Companies; 19th Largest Commercial
Contractor in the Bay Area; Largest 100 Bay Area Private Companies;
Top 25 Best Places to Work; Healthiest Employers; and the CEA
Excellence in Safety Award.
For more information, visit Build Group, Inc. online at
http://www.buildgc.com/.
Contact: Veronica Bell
Lighthouse Public Affairs
+1 (415) 694-8507
veronica@lh-pa.com
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