Dale Corporation, JJ White, Equinox Management & Construction, and Paiz Construction and the Metropolitan Regional Council of Carpenters partner to build Six Homes in 3 Days For deserving Philadelphia Families

GMCS Editorial: Gregory Management & Consulting Services (GMCS) has always been an advocate in the Philadelphia region for collaborative management/labor relations. It is my personal belief that positive management/labor relations is the best and only road to achieving a quality product for this industry’s construction end users, on budget and on schedule.

Developing those strong relationships is often very challenging  We have witnessed those relationships degrade over the last two years as some organizations within the industry have taken an adversarial approach to these relationships and within in their own organizations.  As a result, it is often very hard to find a silver lining in our day or a positive in the marketplace.  Alas, all is not lost!

GMCS would like to take a moment to highlight this very positive collaborative relationship and team building exercise by some of our region’s strongest and most recognizable commercial builders and their trade.

Congratulations to Mark Spadaccino and Eric Lintner of  Dale Corporation,  J.J. White, Equinox Management & Construction, Paiz Construction and the Metropolitan Regional Council of Carpenters for finding a way to work together to build on your relationships and to benefit the Philadelphia community at large.  Your ability to partner on this worthy project will not only benefit the worthy recipients of these beautiful homes, but also entire Philadelphia community by beautifying this block and creating a strong foundation of home owners for this community.

I’m proud to call some of you clients and to have worked with most of you in the past.  Your commitment to each other and this community is most definitely worth noting and celebrating! Thank you. 

 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Dozens of volunteers will spend the next three days hammering away in South Philadelphia, as they help build six new townhomes for families in need.

“I’ve been helping put up siding, floors, painting, drywall,” said said one partner homeowner, who was dressed in jeans and a hard hat.

She is putting in hours of sweat equity for Habitat for Humanity this week, helping to build six new homes near 23rd and Cross Streets, near Tasker, in Point Breeze.

None of these homes will go to her, but she can’t help but dream.

“The day that I get my house, I’m going to paint my door blue, because that’s my son’s dream color,” she says.  She needs more than 200 additional hours of volunteer time before she’s eligible for a home of her own.

Volunteers from the carpenters’ union and five builders — including the Dale Corporation, JJ White, Equinox Management & Construction, and Paiz Construction — are also donating time, helping Habitat for Humanity save $60,000 and complete four months of work in three days.

“By Saturday the houses will have all the walls up, the roofs on, and some of the windows in,” says Habitat’s Philadelphia executive director, Frank Monaghan.  He says each home costs about $140,000 to build.

And he says that need is great: the local group gives away 15 houses a year, but hundreds of families are waiting for a home.

These homes in Point Breeze are expected to be ready for families to move in beginning in December.

Source: CBS Philly