Growing slowly Moving forward, Griffith Homes’ goal is to continue delivering projects to “the highest standards of energy efficiency.” They want their projects to be able to meet or exceed the province’s evolving energy requirements, and they want their clients to live in the most comfortable environments possible. MARCH 2022 To that end, the company wants to keep doing both new homes – ideally “smaller homes,” Tavis says, “as they make the most sense from both an energy perspective and a cost perspective” – as well as renovations – “because we can be reusing our existing inventory, we should be taking the homes we already have and making them better.” As for the size of the company, Griffith Homes would like to keep growing. They intend to do that in collaboration with their subcontractors, suppliers, and other industry partners – including their accountant partners. For example, they work with Reach CPA, a firm based in the Comox Valley that focuses on technology, business and tax advice for small and medium privately owned businesses. Working in partnership with their clients – including small business owners in the professional services, restaurant industry, and construction industry (like Griffith Homes) – they help set up systems to automate as much as possible and delegate the rest, so clients can focus on what they do best and achieve their goals. With the help of partners like that, Tavis says there is plenty of opportunity to get bigger and seize more market share. He clarifies, however, that the company will only grow if they can bring in the right people to accommodate that growth. “Hopefully we’ll find those people and grow slowly,” he says. “Rapid growth I don’t think is ever a good idea. But as long as we can find those key people and put them in the right positions, I think slow growth over time would certainly benefit the company as well as our clients.”
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