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For nearly 50 years, we’ve built many schools, pools, aquatic parks, and more. Many of our best structures, though, never have groundbreakings, ribbon cuttings, or win any awards.

Let’s go behind the scenes and take a closer look, so I can show you what I mean.

When you do as much concrete work as we do, you need forms—plenty of forms—to hold concrete in place until it cures. Away from all the fanfare, we quietly store and haul hundreds of forms from our warehouse to job sites across the state and back. To bundle the forms, sometimes they’re simply stacked on wooden pallets. Other times, we use sturdy metal racks that can be moved with forklifts and easily loaded onto trucks.

Sure, we could buy these racks and pay a pretty penny for them. However, when you have a talented welder like Eric Clanton on your team, he can build them for you instead. He noticed that pallets weren’t the best method for transporting forms, and that our handful of metal racks were pretty worn out.

To solve both problems, he asked if he could replace all of them with custom, in-house racks. His solution was quickly and graciously accepted.

As with any project, the first rack took the longest. Once he got his system dialed in, Eric was cranking out a new finished rack every two hours. In just a few days, we had a full set of new racks ready to be loaded with forms. As a bonus, Eric became proficient with a new welder that we recently purchased.

Innovation. Saving money. Learning new skills. I believe The Office’s Michael Scott called that a “win, win, win.”