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of our senior management has been here for
20-years plus.”
“In terms of employees, now we’re heading
into third generation,” he continued. “Our
accounting is family, and the junior estimator
is family. We build strong relationships with
employees by working with them, encourag-
ing them and giving those incentives, oppor-
tunities and education. By understanding
and respecting the employee, we’re geared
towards people who are family oriented.”
PROJECT PREPAREDNESS
Taking on projects in a variety of sizes and
scopes, ranging from $2 to $4 million up to
$15 million and from parks to flood work
protection illustrates Wilco Civil’s depth
of knowledge and expertise as a builder of
urban and open spaces. As a company that
wears many hats and tackles different indus-
tries, challenges are inevitable.
“We don’t design any of the projects, we take
plans from somebody and just build them,”
Maat said. “We have frequent challenges be-
cause a lot of our work is custom-designed
by the landscape architects. We have to find
solutions on a constant basis for new designs
and new ways of achieving detailing on hard
structures and with that goes complex site
development – so staging and flow of work is