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Co-owners Janelle and Clint Myersz are now working onthe company’s firstt projects since formally launching in Septembefr 2008. The company is actinhg as an environmental consultant tothe $324 million Lincolj highway bypass project and it has contracts with the Nevads Irrigation District in Grass Valley. The woman-owned Sacramento business is focused mainly on publi cworks jobs. In additionj to project managementand consulting, MCS provides stornm water management and engineering services. MCS executive vice president Clint Myers said what sets MCS aparft from traditional consulting companies isthe principals’ experiencwe in the construction industry.
Not a lot of consultantsx have such an he said. “We’re hoping that we can fill that he added. MCS has $100,000 in backlog The company expects to be profitable in the first quartedrof 2010. Myers said MCS can help companies that once framehouses — work that has dried up in the regio n and across the country — explore other such as public contracts. The state wants to build more highway rest for example, he Janelle Myers’ experience in the industry dates back to 1990 when she helpedr start a woman-owned highway construction companyy focused on building barrier rails in Nevada and New Mexico.
She was on the board of directors until the company was sold toRancho Cordova-basee , her husband’s firm, in 2006. Clinft Myers worked as an engineer and projec managerfor C.C. Myers before going back to schoolk fora master’s degre in real estate development at the . After receivinfg his master’s, the younger Myers ran Today, C.C. Myers’ homebuildint companies — Myers Homes Myers Homes of CaliforniaLLC (licensesd in Nevada) and several subsidiaries are estimated to be worth nothing due to the depressed housinbg market. C.C. Myers Inc., majority owned by its employees, is a creditord in the Chapter 7 personal bankruptcy filedby C.C. Myerzs last year.
In these tough economic times, Clinrt Myers said MCS plans to help companies and government agenciew find creative ways toremove “fat” from theif budgets and, on the environmental come up with “solutions that are more economicallyu friendly while still preserving the quality habitat that Californisa has come to expect.” When the economy was a developer looking to get a project approvec might, for example, buy expensive mitigation credits to destroy a wetland on a projecr site in order to speed it up.
But Myerds said MCS could help such a developere find a lessexpensive alternative, such as keepin the wetland and working with the city to increase the lot MCS will compete for environmental consulting jobs with companieas such as , a Sacramento-based subsidiary of The compangy declined to comment on the new MCS’ Web site went live last and it has Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, Clint Myers “The people you have to appeal to for construction contracts are getting younger and he said. “We’re trying to find differenr ways to connect tothose people.
” For now, the compant has two employees, and a wildlife biologist on MCS plans to hire a business developmengt manager for marketing and preparing When it comes to business MCS will tap peoplde who are retired or semi-retirecd from the field. “With the family beinb in the construction industrhy forso long, there are a variety of peoplee that we’ve known over the years who are now retireds who are looking for something to do,” Clint Myer said. “Our experience, combinecd with people we’re able to bring in, can give us the abilitt to do somefairly high-end consulting for businessews wanting to grow or diversify.
” Consultants also can assistt companies transitioning from one generation to the next.
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