maintain and install.” “Not only can we identify underperforming equipment, we can also provide an opportunity for our clients to visually comprehend their equipment maintenance needs,” adds Diego Aiello, the other co-founder and owner. “We also have the ability to forecast preventable equipment malfunctions through data mining, which in turn has the ability to prevent costly downtime, financial losses, and inconvenience to tenants.” Giordano and Diego met while working for another mechanical services provider, where Giordano was a site foremen and Diego was a project manager. They enjoyed the work they were doing but “we didn’t like the direction that company was headed,” Diego says, so they decided to team up and form Pacific Flo in 2015. One of their biggest qualms with their previous employer, according to Giordano, was “when we were doing construction projects, we weren’t getting a lot of support from the office.” “We would go to a construction site and the office would be sending just one technician,” he recalls. “We found that we were always behind the eight ball. Everything was disorganized. Everything took a long time to get done. We thought that if we crewed these jobs up, we could get these TI’s and retrofits done substantially faster and make way more money.” “That was the big idea behind Pacific Flo,” he adds. “We wanted to provide the proper support for our staff, and once a job got going we wanted to send as many people as we DECEMBER 2023
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