buildings with a mix of unit sizes, including a lot units targeted to growing families. The client there is the Sustainable Development Group (SDG), led by Jimmy La, and Adam describes their relationship as “really great.” “I met that client when I was speaking at speaking at a missing middle purpose-built rental development course,” he recalls. “I was an invited speaker at that course to talk about my experience and projects that have gone sideways and how a construction manager could be beneficial to a purpose-built rental development. The client came to our office to visit us after that engagement, and we’ve been working with them ever since. We started with one project and just kept going. We’ve been engaged fully as construction managers and development managers on nine of their projects now.” Moving forward, Adam says the goal for the The Geofocus Group is to build similarly repeat and long-lasting relationships with clients like that one. In partnership with those kinds of clients, they would love to keep growing and expanding into different markets, but Adam says they will only do that if they can find the right personnel. “We want to bring in people who have the right expertise, but we also want to make sure we’re bringing in people with different perspectives,” he says. “That’s the hardest part about growing.” “We speak about it often in the office – our only limitation is that personnel limitation,” he adds. “We’ve seen companies grow quickly by bringing in tonnes of employees, and then their quality suffers. We’re not interested in that type of growth. For us, it’s all about quality and control. That means we need to find quality candidates. We’ve seen what happens when companies don’t put the right people in the right positions. That’s never going to be us.” OCTOBER 2025 At Grad Surveying, we specialize in providing a comprehensive range of surveying services tailored to meet the unique needs of each project. Our expertise covers boundary, topography, infrastructural, road, layout and as built, all of which are delivered with precision and efficiency. www.gradsurveying.ca (647) 518 1362 462 Chester Ave, Newmarket, ON, L3Y 6R7
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