96 Business View Magazine - October 2016
ents are willing to spend the money to go that way be-
cause not only can we sell the product and install it
cost-effectively, but we can also, having owned some
hotels that have that type of structure, prove to them
the cost-effectiveness of it from an energy standpoint,
long term.”
Winesburg Builders has about 100 employees, but
due to the company’s dramatic growth on the gener-
al contracting side, it has imminent plans to split off
its skilled field tradesman of around 75 workers to a
whole new firm, still within the Winesburg family. Re-
garding its employees, Grose says that the company
has always been fiercely loyal to all of its employees.
Even during the height of the Great Recession, when
project funding all but evaporated, it never laid anyone
off. “We always had work,” he reports. “The margins
obviously changed, but our goal, at the time, was to
