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January 2019
| Business World Magazine
dent residence that includes a wide range of
student-oriented amenities. It is one of the
largest and highest profile projects Midwest
Millwork has completed to date. It featured
numerous unique elements, such as the wall
panelling, seating arrangements, custom cabi-
netry, curved display areas with custom ve-
neers, and more.
“That was a hallmark project for us in many
ways,” Dave says. “There were a lot of stand-
out features. It all came together very well into
a really nice finished product.”
Midwest Millwork aims to do more stand-
out, highly-customised projects like that one –
and they aim to get involved with them earlier
in the process.
“We want to move away from the tender
process,” he says. “We want clients to call us
early on so we can collaborate and discover
the best and most cost-effective way for us to
deliver their project, without sacrificing quality.”
“That’s where I’d ultimately like to see us
go. But it’s a real process to get there, it doesn’t
happen overnight. It takes a long time to build
relationships like that with clients, but we be-
lieve we’re well on our way.”