Value Engineering Doesn’t Happen in a Vacuum

Value Engineering Doesn’t Happen in a Vacuum

The term value engineering (VE) gets thrown around a lot in the construction world, especially during the bid process. Clients forever ask for VE ideas to reduce prices. In some circles, VE has become code for “drop your price”. In my experience, to ask a GC/CM for VE...
Philip McCusker Joins South Coast Improvement Company

Philip McCusker Joins South Coast Improvement Company

South Coast Improvement Company (SCI), a design-build general contractor serving New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, recently hired Philip McCusker as a project superintendent. McCusker comes to the Marion, Mass.-based contractor after working as a plumbing and...
Grant Laliberte Joins South Coast Improvement Company

Grant Laliberte Joins South Coast Improvement Company

South Coast Improvement Company (SCI), a design-build general contractor serving New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, recently hired Grant Laliberte as its director of cost estimating. Laliberte comes to the Marion, Mass.-based contractor after having been with J...
Which South Coast?

Which South Coast?

It used to be fairly straightforward to know how we came upon the name “South Coast Improvement Company”. Being based on the South Coast of Massachusetts in Marion made that fairly obvious. In recent years with larger projects up and down the Atlantic, it’s quite...