Jeff Richards, the company’s founder and president, comes from a background in the oil and gas industry, and when he started in construction over 10 years ago he found the typical client-contractor model to be flawed and toooften-adversarial. When he decided to start his own company, he wanted to do things differently. He wanted to apply the professional project management tactics and fundamentals he had learned in oil and gas and deliver projects more efficiently – and in the process, he wanted to create long-term, high-value relationships with clients, and build a business on the back of repeat work and word of mouth. Over the past nine years, Jeff’s approach has proved successful. Since forming in 2014, Innova Developments has formed close-knit and repeat relationships with a number of clients. Many of those clients have grown steadily and significantly in the time they have been working together, and Innova has grown alongside them. “From our roots in Calgary, our company has grown to serve individuals and businesses across Western Canada,” Jeff says. “Right beside us, we have had the pleasure of watching our commercial construction clients grow from small operations to multi-provincial chains.” “We like to work with growing businesses because it’s very easy to relate to them,” he adds, “since we have our own growing business. We can come up with a long-term strategy where we grow our businesses together.” Today, from their head office in SEPTEMBER 2023
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