construction managers and builders

CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS AND BUILDERS
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C.T. Taylor Company provides ‘Taylored’
construction services to your needs.
This promise isn’t just a slogan – it’s the truth.
“Taylored“
TO YOUR
Needs
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Written by Claire Suttles
T
he multi-talented team boasts a
full range of project delivery systems and
can handle projects of nearly any size, from small
$50,000 jobs to large scale work worth over $30 million. The
team will also provide whatever level of service clients require,
from simply providing manpower to taking care of the entire
project, from start to finish.
The Hudson, Ohio based company has been providing individualized solutions in concrete, tilt-up, steel, and a variety of other
construction techniques since 1977. Over the last four decades,
C.T. Taylor Company has grown steadily and diversified, gaining
valuable experience across multiple sectors, including structural steel erection and carpentry, with specialized expertise in
refrigerated warehousing and pre-engineered buildings.
Services
C.T. Taylor provides general contracting and construction
manager at risk services and has extensive experience in the
design-bid-build project delivery method. This traditional
approach to construction is a good fit for the company’s skill set,
and the team understands the important roles that scheduling,
quality, cost management, and safety play in today’s sophisticated building systems. The company employs tradespeople
in-house, maintaining control over projects and ensuring that
the end product is top notch.
“Although it may be old fashioned, we have
found over the years that the ability
to do the work with our
in-house skilled crafts-
people has
made us better
managers,” the company’s website explains. “By selfperforming a lot of the work, we have
the ability to control aspects of the job that other
companies do not have the ability to do,” adds Sr. Estimator / LEED® Coordinator Leslie Yager. “We are able to get in
there and actually control everything in the site.”
C.T. Taylor also offers design / build services in addition to the
traditional design-bid-build approach. In this approach, the
owner and design professionals work as an integrated
team and the project budget is developed alongside the design, giving the owner more
options early on and optimizing the
project’s value. “For owners
that wish to actively
p ar t i cip ate
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in a team approach to construct their facility from concept
to turnover, design / build is an ideal method,” the company
points out. But, while teamwork is emphasized, C.T. Taylor still
takes sole responsibility for the project – managing everything
from project cost and permitting to scheduling and cash flow
– so the owner is not bogged down with the complications
and headaches of the construction process. “The fundamental principle of the design / build project delivery method is to
provide you, the owner, a single source of responsibility and
accountability,” the company explains.
C.T. Taylor also offers construction management services as
a Construction Manager Advisor, or an “at risk” Construction
Manager. “Our hands-on experience at self-performance makes
us a superior partner in this team approach to construction,”
the company website points out. “Having years of continued
hands on contact with our projects is vital to the valuable input
we provide at the earliest phases of the project. Our project
managers and superintendents are more efficient at scheduling and maintaining quality assurance because they know firsthand how things are and should be done.”
C.T. Taylor can provide a full scope of pre-construction services,
regardless of the project delivery method a client chooses.
“While teamwork is emphasized,
C.T. Taylor still takes sole
responsibility for the project –
managing everything from project
cost and permitting to scheduling
and cash flow.”
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“Over the last four decades, C.T. Taylor Company has grown steadily and
diversified, gaining valuable experience across multiple sectors.”
“Our intimate knowledge of the nuts and bolts of the construction process enhances the value of services such as comparative cost studies, value engineering, preliminary critical path
scheduling and subcontractor pre-qualifications,” the company
points out. “When, for example, we compare the cost of a
structural steel structure to a cast in-place or pre-cast structure,
we maintain historical costs from our own experience rather
than rely on outside estimating services.”
Green Building
tion, occupancy, and maintenance of a building in order to
improve its impact on the environment and on human health.
Green building deals with a wide range of issues during the
construction process including renewable resources and the
reuse or recycling of materials, clean energy sources, energy
efficient lighting and HVAC systems, and the redevelopment
of existing building sites. Lasting benefits to the environment
– and the building’s occupants – include everything from the
reduction of waste and carbon use to improved air and water
quality.
C.T. Taylor also specializes in green or sustainable building. This
approach to building carefully considers the design, construc-
The team has placed a strong emphasis on green building
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“We strive as a company to give
the best product that we can to the
owner.”
Midview Middle School in Grafton. In addition, Mr. Yager was
named LEED® Green Associate of the year for 2014.
and has been remarkably successful in its attempts. “At C. T.
Taylor we strive to bring our expertise to the table and help
everyone become a little greener,” the company explains.
Indeed, a whopping 75 percent of C.T. Taylor’s projects are built
to achieve at least LEED® Silver. “From about 2010 to now, we
have roughly 17 projects that are either LEED® certified silver or
gold or are expecting to be certified silver or gold,” Mr. Yager
shares.
Most notably, the company’s work on the U.S. Coast Guard
Ninth District – Cleveland Moorings boat maintenance annex
in Cleveland harbor earned the US Green Building Council’s
(USGBC) Best Building Award 2014 – BD&C. C.T. Taylor was also
recognized by USGBC as the Best Large Contractor 2014 for
its work on McEbright Community Learning Center in Akron,
the Geneva Platt R. Spencer Elementary School in Geneva, and
The team is committed to maintaining its focus on green
building and already has a number of environmentally friendly
projects lined up for 2015, including the construction of
Coventry High School in Akron, Ohio and Norton High School
in Norton, Ohio, both of which are scheduled to obtain LEED®
Silver. Obtaining LEED® certification can certainly be challenging, but C.T. Taylor is up to the job. “The major thing is to be
able to have all the documentation in hand in a readable, easily
obtainable form,” says Mr. Yager. “So we created our own form
that [can be] easily filled out. I look at all the forms that come
in here and if there are items that need to be added we can
get them added before we start entering them into the system.
Keeping track of all the items on a spreadsheet makes it a lot
easier for us, and a lot easier for the reviewers.”
The Team
No matter what the project, C.T. Taylor always makes customer
satisfaction a priority. “We strive as a company to give the best
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“A whopping 75 percent of C.T. Taylor’s projects are built
to achieve at least LEED® Silver.”
product that we can to the owner and to meet the goals and
requirements that they have for us,” Mr. Yager reports. A top
notch team with a combined total of over 200 years’ experience
helps the company achieve these goals. “It goes back to our
staff, to our project managers, project engineers, estimators,
and our field superintendents,” Mr. Yager asserts. “They don’t
shy away from a complex project.” Good communication skills
are also key to success. “We are very open in communication.
We can gather the best ideas and come up with a solution for
just about anything that would come up.”
Staff members stay with C.T. Taylor long term, and most
members of the close knit team have been with the company
on an average of over 12 years. Their long term experience and
dedication to the firm help ensure that projects will come in on
time and on budget. “We are also a merit shop company, so
we are very price competitive for everything that we do,” Mr.
Yager adds.
After nearly 40 years of ongoing success, C.T. Taylor continues
to expand. But, Mr. Yager insists that the company will always
offer a specially “Taylored” solution, no matter how big it may
become. “We plan on getting larger and still offering the same
personal service to our clients,” he explains. “We will always
have a person ready to talk to them and meet with them.”
CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS AND BUILDERS
C. T. Taylor Company, Inc
5802 Akron-Cleveland Road
Hudson, Ohio 44236
P: 330-656-9353
F: 330-656-9356
E: info@cttaylor.com
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