THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA getting fully hands on. I started thinking, ‘Hell, if managing multiple projects and outsourcing to third party GCs does not make my life easier or help me scale my success, then I might as well take full control of the whole process and develop systems to prevent risks across the entire operation, right from the beginning.” That realization caused Stanford to vertically integrate Admiral Development and Operations. The company started doing all their own construction management in-house. Later, in 2021, they went even further and they started their own concrete formwork and rebar team (ChinBrothers Construction Ltd.) after essentially being blackmailed by a subcontractor on a 2.5-level underground, 55-unit condo project in New Westminster. This internal team helps them minimize the risk involved with working on projects with underground parking. Because they do more in-house, Admiral Development and Operations can manage fewer projects then they could originally. The upside is they have more control over each one. The decision to vertically integrate, though, immediately proved to be a wise one. After making the call, the company’s next project – an 18-unit townhouse project located at 8600 Francis in Richmond – turned out to be a “huge success.” “We completed that at end of 2020,” Stanford recalls. “We carried through from design to value engineering to construction to delivery. We were on time from start of excavation to Occupancy in 12 months. Construction was on budget. And this was through COVID.” Working throughout COVID, Stanford elaborates,
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