Getting a job to that “done and done well” place takes a lot more than nuts, bolts, nails, wood, and steel. It takes people…..lots of people: clients, architects, trade apprentices, master carpenters, even the guy that cleans out the port-a-potty every week (yes, that’s part of the General Contractor’s job too).
Read MoreIt’s early morning on a Friday. A couple of the Optimum guys are unfurling a nearly unending, thick vinyl banner, and they start to chuckle. Who’s going to be on this one? It’s become an office joke and a teamwide prank, to put each other’s faces on the long fence scrims that stretch around the Optimum job sites.
Read MoreRelationships are built at their own pace. There’s an inevitability that both frustrates us, and also becomes something we can rely on. “When the time is right” seems to be Newton’s unspoken law of relationship development.
Read MoreWhat you may not remember often enough, is that everybody comes from somewhere. Every great company had to “start” and it’s usually not that pretty of a picture at first.
Read MoreIn our last blog with Marcus Golding (which obviously you’ve read, annotated and committed to memory) he mentioned off-hand that Optimum is expanding their work within the custom homes market along the coast of Maine.
Read MoreIt’s Monday morning and Marcus Golding is getting, to use his word, “roasted”. It’s Optimum’s weekly team meeting and as a Project Manager, he’s well used to it. “Listen, most of us do something stupid most days and getting roasted keeps our feet on the ground, keeps us humble and keeps us driven. It’s how you know you’re part of the family at Optimum, when you get roasted on a Monday.”
Read MoreToday we are looking at the Optimum Construction Sales Call. How to close new business, Optimum-style. For some companies, this would be a venture inside the SPAM factory, a place you’d rather not visit, because ignorance is bliss.
Read MoreAs a Superintendent for Optimum, Jesse Eastman is charged with turning renderings into reality. His job daily requires him to play interpreter between the digitized, CAD, perfect-plumb-and-square plans of the architect and the concrete and wood of the subcontractors.
Read MoreIt’s easy to get the momentum going and just start grinding through the days, the weeks, the months and eventually the years. Momentum can help us get a lot done! But, a wide-receiver can’t catch the ball unless he’s running with his head up.
Read MoreIt’s not every day you think to look over at the new guy and ask his opinion on things. But a fresh perspective is sometimes a necessary scorecard to show how you’re doing. It’s rare that you have someone really new, and we peppered him with questions to find out what it’s like.
Read MoreThis blog happened like this. Kendrick was supposed to tell his own story about coming into the construction industry. His immediate answer was, “Literally, my only experience in life has been ‘Team’, so by default, I have chosen to run a business this way.”
Read MoreFor the past year, we’ve had the pleasure of building York Street Wellness Center, which will open in Portland Maine during the Summer, 2019
Read MoreWe love to build healthcare facilities of any kind, and we especially have fun creating pediatric spaces. Building a doctor’s, dentist’s, or other healthcare office for kids and adults that they actually want to visit is a fun challenge we’re always up for.
Read MoreWe recently sat down with Ryan Lessard to hear the full story of how he got into construction, how he met Kendrick, and how he became an owner at Optimum. It was full of more twists and turns than we expected! Ryan, thanks for sharing!
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