President's Message
With its cadre of employees larger and of greater diversity, GREYHAWK continues to respond to the ever-changing construction industry. The entire marketplace is morphing right in front of our eyes, fueled by the economy, onshore and offshore competition, real estate values, oil prices and a severe shortage of site labor and skilled professionals available and entering the workplace.
Key to the construction industry is project delivery and the amount of risk owners are willing to take in an already unpredictable business. The pressures on architects and engineers to keep up with technology and, at the same, time deliver contract documents virtually defect free, increases an owner’s need to maintain a skilled technical staff or be forced to outsource. The concepts of program management and owner’s representative are out-stripping the need and desire to use agency construction managers with traditional project deliveries – innovation is happening.
GREYHAWK has responded to this challenge by molding our workforce to better respond to the changing requirements of our clients. We return to the fundamental philosophy embraced by construction consulting firms that got their start in the 1960’s and have eliminated various technical practice areas in favor of the “one company” theme. We are now divided by geography rather than by technical service area.
2008 will be another successful year for GREYHAWK. We have the largest booked backlog in our history; we have diversified our portfolio of projects to include a well-balanced blend of institutional, industry and commercial work; and we have taken advantage of the growth in the international marketplace through our London office. We are again poised for geographic expansion and we are implementing new business initiatives to provide more services to our clients – all instruments of our strategic plan.
The one constant at GREYHAWK is our focus on clients and employees. We work hard everyday to assure that we have the best people providing the right services. Results and value are still the metrics by which we want our clients to measure us because that is what differentiates us from all others. Being a little smaller sometimes means we can deliver bigger.
Gary Berman, PE, FCMAA
President/CEO |
