Having fun Moving forward, Dancor’s vision is to keep building industrial and commercial projects of various sizes. In Sean’s view, the size of the project isn’t all that important: “We’re not worried about sizes,” he says. “It doesn’t matter if we end up doing a 30,000-square-foot project or a 300,000-square-foot project or a one million-square-foot project – we’re going to approach it the same way. We’re going to provide the same high-end service, the same attention to detail, and we’re going to be just as hands-on.” What interests Dancor is not the size of the project, Sean explains, but the challenge. That’s why they have enjoyed working with Element5 on their factory addition so much. “The projects that we really, really enjoy are ones that are schedule driven to the point where we have to find a way to make up a couple months. It’s a puzzle, and it’s a puzzle we love solving. We would be really happy doing more complicated things that challenge all of us.” Most importantly, however, Sean says he wants to enjoy what he does, and he wants his team to enjoy it too. With the size the company is at now, and with the kind of work they are doing, he says “we really do have fun” – and he wants that to continue, which means the company doesn’t have too much room to grow. “We’re at a size now that we like,” he says. “We’re not like a lot of other companies that are trying to grow and employ 200 people. We’d rather work with people we like and enjoy the work we do. We want to enjoy coming to work every day – and right now, that’s the case. We all enjoy what we’re doing. We all get a kick out of it, and I don’t think we would enjoy it as much if we were double the size.” “So we’re just going to keep doing what we’ve been doing,” he concludes. “It’s successful, it’s fun. I don’t want to change any of it.” SEPTEMBER 2024
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