CW2 Construction and Design builds early success

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A few months into their operations, staff at the Brandon Chamber of Commerce’s latest member organization is already bursting with business.

Formed in October, CW2 Construction and Design Ltd. has already been awarded 24 projects, but the company’s significant scope doesn’t come across in its difficult-to-find office space.

Down a long unmarked hallway, company partner Bart Curtis was found cheerfully speaking on the phone with a client earlier this week.

Aside from a few pictures of family, Cutis’s nondescript office is starkly decorated, with everything coming across as temporary.

“In it for the long haul,” Curtis said, clarified that the interim office space isn’t indicative of the company’s longevity, with the current business space set up out of necessity.

The day it opened, the company already had $1 million in projects on the books that it needed to move on, tying up its resources during the proceeding months. Curtis said they were lucky to secure a temporary space that would allow them to meet their various clients’ needs.

CW2 Construction’s leadership hopes to have their own standalone building constructed across the street from their current 2B Park Ave. E. location by this winter, which will enable further expansion.

The company, headed by partners Curtis, Matt Gorgerat, Crane Steel and S. Wilson Construction, started out as a means of accomplishing their shared goal of paving a new path for themselves.

While Curtis has 22 years experience in construction, he considers this new company the embodiment of a new generation of construction professionals who are dedicated to seeking unique solutions using today’s technology.

“It’s not that older ways are wrong, there are just different ways of cutting costs for clients that people who have been in it for generations aren’t willing to try,” he said, later clarifying that he recognizes that “new” doesn’t necessarily mean “better,” and that knowing the difference is key.

“I think it’s just a matter of you’re kind of the master of your own ship, now,” Curtis added. “It’s an opportunity to do things the way you’ve always wanted to do them, with your own qualities, morals and integrity behind it, instead of (being in) your own box.”

Carrying a staff of about 12 so far, CW2 Construction’s first big project was a tenant infill job for Alliance Accounting Group Chartered Professional Accountants Inc. at 2425 Victoria Ave. Unit E.

Completing what was anticipated to have been a five-month project two months early in order to accommodate the company’s move-in date, the project remains a source of pride for Curtis.

Rightfully so, with Alliance Accounting Group partner Scott Anderson commending their efforts.

“We were certainly working within time constraints, and we worked well with them and they get the job done,” he said, adding that despite their imposing a time crunch on the contractors, the quality of workmanship was retained.

They went the opposite route, Anderson said, adding that they did certain things he doesn’t believe other builders would have done, “just little things where they want above and beyond.”

While CW2 Construction is new to the Brandon business community, Anderson said that they were hired based on Curtis’s positive reputation with past companies he’s worked with.

That’s how business is done in Brandon, Curtis said, adding that his company is striving toward the type of long-term sustained growth that many local businesses have fostered over many years.

“In the end, we want friends out of it,” he said.

Last week found CW2 Construction beginning work at one of the latest additions to Shoppers Mall, GoodLife Fitness, where they’re building the commercial space’s interior.

Like the Alliance Accounting Group job, they’ve been given a compressed time frame to work within that has added a level of stress to the job.

As challenging as it is, they’ll make the deadline, Curtis said, adding that the new company’s reputation depends on their following through with what they say they’re going to do.

 

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