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Co-owners Janelle and Clinyt Myers are now working onthe company’s first projectx since formally launching in September 2008. The company is acting as an environmentao consultant tothe $324 million Lincoln highwauy bypass project and it has contractzs with the Nevada Irrigation District in Grass The self-funded, woman-owned Sacramento business is focused mainly on publi c works jobs. In addition to project managementand consulting, MCS provides storm waterr management and engineering services.
MCS executive vice president Clinft Myers said what sets MCS apart from traditional consultinbg companies isthe principals’ experience in the construction Not a lot of consultantzs have such an expertise, he said. “We’re hopin that we can fill that he added. MCS has $100,000 in backlogb work. The company expects to be profitablse in the first quarterof 2010. Myers said MCS can help companiew that once framedhouses — work that has dried up in the regionn and across the country explore other opportunities, such as publi c contracts. The state wants to builxd more highwayrest areas, for he said.
Janelle experience in the industry dates back to 1990 when she helpeed starta woman-owned highway construction company focused on building barrier railsa in California, Nevada and New Mexico. She was on the boarxd of directors until the company was sold toRancho Cordova-basedc , her husband’s firm, in 2006. Cliny Myers worked as an engineer and projecyt managerfor C.C. Myers befores going back to schoopl fora master’s degree in real estatwe development at the . After receiving his the younger Myersran Today, C.C. Myers’ homebuilding companied — Myers Homes Inc.
, Myers Homes of Californi LLC (licensed in Nevada) and several subsidiaries — are estimated to be worth nothing due to the depressed housing market. C.C. Myers majority owned by its employees, is a creditotr in the Chapter 7 personal bankruptct filedby C.C. Myers last In these tough economic Clint Myers said MCS plans to help companiexs and government agencies find creativer ways toremove “fat” from thei r budgets and, on the environmental side, come up with “solutionsw that are more economically friendly while still preservingg the quality habitat that California has come to When the economy was strong, a developer looking to get a projec approved might, for example, buy expensive mitigationm credits to destroy a wetland on a project site in ordedr to speed it up.
But Myers said MCS coulf help such a developer find a lessexpensivee alternative, such as keeping the wetland and workinfg with the city to increase the lot MCS will compete for environmental consultin jobs with companies such as , a Sacramento-based subsidiarhy of The company declined to comment on the new MCS’ Web site went live last week, and it has Facebooj and LinkedIn profiles, Clint Myers “The people you have to appealk to for construction contracts are getting younger and younger,” he said. “We’rwe trying to find different ways to connecrt tothose people.” For now, the companyt has two employees, and a wildlife biologist on contract.
MCS plansx to hire a business developmenyt manager for marketing andpreparintg proposals. When it comes to business MCS will tap people who are retiredor semi-retired from the “With the family beinv in the construction industry for so long, there are a varietyg of people that we’ve known over the yeard who are now retired who are lookiny for something to do,” Clint Myerss said. “Our experience, combined with people we’re able to bringb in, can give us the ability to do somefairlty high-end consulting for businesses wanting to grow or Consultants also can assist companies transitioning from one generatio to the next.
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