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It’s All About the People

January 20, 2019 by clove 2 Comments

This stuff doesn’t get built by robots or aliens. At least not on our project, and at least as far as we can tell.

Aliens or not, the crew at Interactive have been exemplary. I continue to be amazed by what they accomplish in any given week.

A few of the crew from Interactive, plus Matt! L-R: Matt, Josh, Pat, Mitch, Brittany. They’re not just smiling because the brownies I brought them were so delicious; these are beautiful people!
If a project manager was a super hero, he’d be like Mike!

Probably because this is the first time Matt and I have done this, I feel a special kind of amazement seeing the crew transform our two dimensional drawings into three dimensions on site.

We had the location survey done recently – this is when the survey company checks the location of the building and issues a certificate verifying that it’s where it’s supposed to be. Russ, owner of Interactive, said casually, “Looks like we once again managed to put the house where it goes.” He’s done this a lot. To me, it’s all still a bit magical.

In 2D
In 3D

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  1. Peter Faloon says

    January 26, 2019 at 1:29 am

    Christy… Human performance is a three-legged stool: Skills and abilities, tools and resource and individual’s motivation). It is obvious to me that “Interactive’s” leadership has found a way to empower individuals to be “motivated” to own their work which delivers a superior result to the customer. You chose your contractor well.

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  2. clove says

    January 30, 2019 at 4:59 am

    Thank you Peter – yes we did!

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