THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA “So there is a fairly clear roadmap,” Bruce says. “If we can prove viability and experience success with structural engineering firms in Canada, we can grow our target market by rounding out the product to suit the other disciplines, and then we can double it again by going multidisciplinary and going after larger fish, so to speak.” Bruce admits that he might not be the right person to lead that charge in the long term, but as long as they are pursuing discipline specific engineering firms, he believes he’s the right person for the job, as he has such a deep understanding of the building design industry. Once they start really branching out, however, he anticipates reevaluating the company’s executive structure. “Maybe we’ll bring on somebody from the SaaS industry with a bit more experience navigating an intense growth pace,” he says. “I mean, these things can snowball quickly, and when it starts to move fast we want to have the right people in place.” That’s not to say Bruce doesn’t have experience managing growth. Over at Access Engineering, the company has grown at a rapid pace in recent years. When Bruce arrived, he was employee number four and they mostly took on small projects. Today, the company employs 18 people spread between two offices, one in Prince George and another in Edmonton, Alberta, and they regularly take on projects in the $50 million-plus range in a wide variety of sectors. “The story of Access Engineering is interesting, because it started with one person, and he did a lot of small projects over the course of 30 years,” Bruce says. “And then I came on board and we started to build out the team. And then there was just this natural progression of undertaking larger and larger projects and hiring specialists
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