THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA the best approach’ or ‘what path should we go down?’” Doug says. “I’ll give them an idea – ‘hey, if you go down this path, it’ll save the owners a substantial amount of money.’ As long as our company’s making our margins, I love when we can save the client money as well. I think that’s one of the reasons our phone just continues to ring.” Tim Parnell, the company’s director of over 20 years, echoes that sentiment and points to yet one more key differentiator – the quality of Imperial’s field crews. “They’re super good at what they do, super helpful, and super knowledgeable,” Tim says. “If there’s an issue, we’re able to sit down with the rest of the project team and figure out what we need to do to achieve our common goal. All the generals we work with constantly remind us that we have the best field crews on the island.” What sets those crews apart, Doug adds, is that many of Imperial’s field workers first came up as fabricators – they completed their BCIT schooling and apprenticeship as fitters before moving into field roles. “When they’re in the field and they see a problem, they can read a set of drawings and fix it properly,” he adds. “Plus they’re efficient. They are a welloiled machine. General contractors often tell us that a job site should have eight guys on it and we’ll show up with a team of five or six and they get the job done. That keeps us very competitive.” The company’s roster of subcontractors and suppliers are similarly high calibre, in Doug’s view. He says many of those relationships stretch back nearly to the beginning of Imperial Welding, and “we wouldn’t exist without them.”
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