Business View Magazine | February 2020

38 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2020 markets, we’ve gotten more work because other companies are seeing us go in there and build, so they’ve been asking us to build some of their work, as well.” With a strong economy in Utah, right now, Madsen says that getting work close to home is much less of a problem than finding good workers. “The problem we’re running into is a manpower shortage in our market,” he explains. “We could find the work to grow, but not the people. So, our focus is going to be maintaining the employees that we have, and trying to keep the good quality reputation that we have, and not trying to grow. We’re always keeping our eyes open, though. We have friends and other people who work for us that have relationships with people and if the opportunity presents itself, we’ll always look at those pretty closely.” Going forward, Madsen says that he would like J&M to continue bidding on more design/build projects, as it has done over the past few years. “I think we’ll probably try to look into that market more consistently because it’s a strong suit of ours,” he remarks. “We have the manpower, the education, and the experience to help on those design/build projects, and it’s a win/win for the general contractor, for us, and for the owner, when we can get in front, help with some of the design and some of the costs. So, I would hope that that market is one of the ones that we would push into more.”