


A Sunshine State of Mind
Why would anybody travel to Orlando in August? Other than families looking to visit Disney or Universal at a less crowded time, why would you? For South Coast Improvement, we had a very good reason: the Florida Health Care Association (FHCA) conference and the Florida...
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...
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...
The Luck of the Irish
For many, no month of March is complete without a St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Here at South Coast Improvement, the day takes on a little different tone as we have four “lads” who hale from the Emerald Isle—Gareth O’Neill, Alex Browne, Brian Donnelly and Phillip...