Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 10

35 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 10 has several employees at its core that have been there right from the start, while new qualified and hard-working faces have been added as they’ve grown over the past 20 years. “The integration and the overall culture I would say is very light,” Ferguson shares. “But we take our job seriously. We still have a lot of fun but there is a lot of work to be done. Our core is construction which can be a bit rough around the edges. There’s a lot of hard work from our crews and boots on the ground they get a lot of respect for bringing the visions from paper to life. It’s a fun place to work, and very busy most days.” Moving ahead to the future, Ferguson sees Timmerman continuing to grow and further establishing itself as a leader in the timber industry. “I want us to become more innovative, more specialized and recognized as one of the leading design and erection companies,” he says. And for mass timber itself – Ferguson doesn’t see its growth as a building material of choice waning any time soon. He reports, “I don’t see the mass timber wave slowing down. Given the number of inquiries we see from institutions from all parts of the country and from the private sector, it is very clear that it is just not slowing down. Right now, there seems to be no limit to the appetite for the product.” He believes a lot of that appetite can be attributed to the pandemic, noting, “Employers want to have office space where people enjoy coming to work, they are looking beyond the standard, boiler plate cubicle look – they want a workplace that people can feel good about.” T IMMERMAN T IMBERWORKS