AARON & JOHN FREDERICK

Aaron and John Frederick have been many things in addition to identical twins – college roommates, baseball teammates, and company co-owners, among others. Their shared experiences and countless similarities were simply intuitive: “Our parents never intentionally pushed us to do the same or different things; we just naturally moved in the same direction.”

“It is a lot of fun having a twin. Aside from the entertainment that comes from watching other people’s confusion on a daily basis, we have always had someone you can count on for anything. We have always been each other’s biggest critic and biggest fan,” Aaron and John say, jokingly adding, “You want the other to succeed because everyone else is likely to think it was you.”

As the twins grew up, they were simultaneously collaborators and competitors. “As soon as we woke up in the morning, we had someone of equal ability and drive to play ball with, wrestle with, and compete with in every way. We could make bigger messes and do bigger things because there were two of us working at it,” they share.

The brothers consider this competitiveness to be a strength, saying it has “driven us to be creative in finding solutions to problems in life, and coupled with the fact that we still had the same end goals in mind, created in each of us a desire to find and accept new and bigger challenges that make life fun.”

Today, Aaron and John continue to build this bond of brotherhood while mapping out new constructions in Chattanooga. The brothers co-own Frederick Bros. Construction and manage the family-run business alongside each of their wives. A future in construction was foreshadowed early on: “At 4 years old, we removed half of the interior doorknobs in our parents’ house before our mother even realized what we were doing,” they share.

Having similar mindsets makes decision-making on the job an easy process. They explain, “It’s like being in two places at once. Any decisions one makes on a job are most likely the same decisions the other would have made.”

Ultimately, the twins are grateful for their close friendship and their fulfilling work with Frederick Bros. Construction. “God led us to take the same path,” they say. “Taking a leap of faith and persevering through the hard times, knowing who was at the helm, has given us a work environment that neither of us would trade for anything.”