Continued growth Moving forward, LAING’s goal is to continue taking on projects of all types. They enjoy the highprofile and challenging jobs, and they hope clients continue to come to them first with those kinds of projects, but they also want to do smaller projects and take on service contracts with their service division. Darran believes that diversity is the path to continued growth. “I think if you’re not growing then you’re shrinking, to be honest,” he says. “I’ve never taken the attitude of ‘We’re big enough, we don’t need to be any bigger.’ At the same time, I’m not sitting here saying ‘I want to employ 200 people next year.’ If that happens, if the economy allows it, then that’s what we’ll do – but we’re not going to get bigger just for the sake of hitting a number. If we’re going to get bigger, it’s going to be to better service our clients.” “So we’re going to keep our eyes open,” he concludes. “If there’s an opportunity, we’ll jump on it. That’s how we’ve grown so far. That’s worked out well for us.” NOVEMBER 2022
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