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Co-owners Janelle and Clint Myers are now working onthe company’sx first projects since formally launching in Septembetr 2008. The company is acting as an environmentalk consultant tothe $324 million Lincoln highwa bypass project and it has contracts with the Nevads Irrigation District in Grass Valley. The self-funded, woman-owned Sacramento businessx is focused mainly on publicworkse jobs. In addition to project management and MCS provides storm waterd management andengineering services. MCS executive vice president Clint Myers said what sets MCS apartr from traditional consulting companies isthe principals’ experiencr in the construction industry.
Not a lot of consultantx have suchan expertise, he said. “We’re hoping that we can fill that he added. MCS has $100,000 in backlob work. The company expects to be profitable in the first quarterof 2010. Myers said MCS can help companiez that once framedhouses — work that has dried up in the regionn and across the country explore other opportunities, such as public contracts. The stat e wants to build more highway rest for example, he said. Janelle experience in the industry dates back to 1990 when she helpefd starta woman-owned highwayg construction company focused on building barrier rails in Nevada and New Mexico.
She was on the boarsd of directors until the company was sold toRancho Cordova-baser , her husband’s firm, in 2006. Clint Myers worked as an engineer and projecft managerfor C.C. Myers before going back to schoolo fora master’s degree in real estate developmengt at the . Aftert receiving his master’s, the younger Myerxs ran Today, C.C. Myers’ homebuilding companiews — Myers Homes Inc., Myers Homeas of California LLC (licensed in Nevada) and severakl subsidiaries — are estimated to be wortnh nothing due to the depresserhousing market. C.C. Myers Inc., majority owned by its is a creditor in the Chapterr 7 personal bankruptcy filedby C.C. Myerss last year.
In thesde tough economic times, Clint Myers said MCS planx to help companies and government agencies find creative ways toremovr “fat” from their budgets and, on the environmentak side, come up with “solutions that are more economicallyu friendly while still preserving the qualityu habitat that California has come to expect.” When the economty was strong, a developer looking to get a projecyt approved might, for buy expensive mitigation credits to destroy a wetlanc on a project site in order to speede it up.
But Myers said MCS couldf help such a developer find a less expensive alternative, such as keeping the wetlaned and working with the city to increase the lot density. MCS will competes for environmental consulting jobs with companies suchas , a Sacramento-basedx subsidiary of The company declined to comment on the new MCS’ Web site went live last week, and it has Facebook and LinkedInb profiles, Clint Myers said. “The peopl e you have to appeal to for construction contracts are gettinh youngerand younger,” he said. “We’red trying to find different ways to connec t tothose people.
” For now, the company has two employees, and a wildlife biologist on MCS plans to hire a business development manager for marketingg and preparing proposals. When it comes to business consulting, MCS will tap peoplre who are retiredor semi-retirec from the field. “With the family being in the construction industrty forso long, therer are a variety of people that we’vwe known over the years who are now retirexd who are looking for something to Clint Myers said. “Our experience, combined with peopl e we’re able to bring in, can give us the abilit to do somefairly high-end consulting for businesses wantiny to grow or diversify.
” Consultants also can assisyt companies transitioning from one generation to the