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the team at Mark Turner Con-
struction were able to help
them achieve that delivering
the project on schedule and on
budget. That achievement is
made more impressive by the
challenges they had to initially
overcome.
Those challenges included high
concentrations of arsenic in the
soil, and stormwater runoff into
nearby wetlands and neigh-
bouring properties. Franklin
and his team overcame them
by encapsulating the infected
soil with additional landscaping
and hardscape, and by working
with city officials to reconfig-
ure the site layout and convert
large portions of impervious
coverage into previous areas.
According to Franklin, those
solutions were a result of the
company’s collaboration with
all the project stakeholders –
including the City of Hampton,
the design team at PMA Archi-
tects, and especially the team
at ‘I Can.’
“We made sure the owner knew
that were there for them,” he
says. “They had a lot of con-
cerns on that project, but we
were able to support them,
work closely with them, and
get them across those hur-
dles successfully. The result is
a true testament to the power
of working together. And they
know to this day that if they
need something, they can pick
up the phone and call us, and
we’ll be right there.”
Overall, Franklin credits the
award-worthy result to that
synergy between his team and
the client’s team. They were
introduced shortly after he de-
cided to start his own company,
and they were making a leap of
faith, same as him.
“We were on similar paths,” he
says. “They were building a new
building and expanding their
business, and I was just starting
mine. So it’s always going to be
a very special project to us.”
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