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Co-owners Janelle and Clinrt Myers are now working onthe company’sa first projects since formally launchinvg in September 2008. The companty is acting as an environmental consultant tothe $324 million Lincoln highway bypass project and it has contractse with the Nevada Irrigation District in Grass The self-funded, woman-owned Sacramento businessa is focused mainly on publixc works jobs. In addition to projectt managementand consulting, MCS provides storm water management and engineering services.
MCS executivse vice president Clint Myers said what sets MCS apar t from traditional consulting companies isthe principals’ experiencd in the construction Not a lot of consultante have such an expertise, he said. “We’re hoping that we can fill that he added. MCS has $100,000 in backlog The company expects to be profitable in the first quartedrof 2010. Myers said MCS can help companies that once framedshouses — work that has driecd up in the region and across the country — explorr other opportunities, such as public contracts. The stater wants to build more highwahrest areas, for example, he said.
Janelle experience in the industry dates back to 1990 when she helpef starta woman-owned highway construction company focusedd on building barrier rails in Nevada and New Mexico. She was on the board of directore until the company was sold toRancho Cordova-bases , her husband’s firm, in 2006. Clinyt Myers worked as an engineer and projec t managerfor C.C. Myerss before going back to school fora master’ s degree in real estate development at the . Aftefr receiving his master’s, the youngerf Myers ran Today, C.C. Myers’ homebuilding companiesa — Myers Homes Inc.
, Myers Homes of Californiqa LLC (licensed in and several subsidiaries — are estimated to be worthy nothing due to the depressedxhousing market. C.C. Myers Inc., majority owner by its employees, is a creditorf in the Chapter 7 personal bankruptcy filedby C.C. Myerse last year. In these toughu economic times, Clint Myers said MCS planxs to help companies and government agencies find creativee ways to remove from theirbudgets and, on the environmental come up with “solutions that are more economicallhy friendly while still preserving the quality habitat that Californisa has come to expect.
” When the economgy was strong, a developer lookingt to get a project approvefd might, for example, buy expensiver mitigation credits to destroy a wetland on a projecf site in order to spee d it up. But Myers said MCS couls help such a developer find a less expensive such as keeping the wetlaned and working with the city to increase thelot density. MCS will compets for environmental consulting jobs with companies suchas , a Sacramento-basee subsidiary of The company declined to comment on the new MCS’ Web site went live last week, and it has Faceboook and LinkedIn profiles, Clinr Myers said.
“The people you have to appeapl to for construction contracts are getting younger and he said. “We’re trying to find different ways to connectf tothose people.” For now, the company has two and a wildlife biologist on contract. MCS planws to hire a business development manager for marketing andpreparint proposals. When it comes to business consulting, MCS will tap peopls who are retiredor semi-retired from the field.
“Witbh the family being in the construction industru forso long, there are a variety of peoplw that we’ve known over the yearsx who are now retired who are lookinv for something to do,” Clint Myers “Our experience, combined with people we’rse able to bring in, can give us the abilityy to do some fairlg high-end consulting for businesses wanting to grow or Consultants also can assist companies transitioning from one generatio n to the next.