Austin Construction News June 2020

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Father knows best

Challenge accepted!

L-R: Daughter-father duo Lani Davis and Wes Davis of HFG Maintenance and Construction

L-R: Trinity Pool & Spa’s Garrett Gray and Jake Koziel enjoy cool pool building challenges.

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ani Davis well remembers her frustration from her days working for a property management company. It was always the same problem: an inspection report would be due during an option period, the clock would be ticking toward a tight deadline and she would be searching high and low for quality subcontractors. “We were having a hard time finding trustworthy maintenance people to come in these apartments,” Lani recalls. “You only had a certain amount of time. It was so hard to get qualified people in a timely manner, but you had to meet with so many [subcontractors].“ Lani’s dad, Wes Davis, had worked overseas in construction for more than 15 years. He naturally knew the solution to

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C Surfaces Inc. enjoys helping Austin-area customers find their creative center. The building materials supplier, fabricator and installer opened its Cedar Park design center at 1701 Hur Industrial Boulevard in October 2018. The 20,000sf built-from-the-ground-up facility is comprised of a 10000sf warehouse, 2000sf office space and an 8000sf showroom. “MC Surfaces has been in business for nearly 30 years and it’s always been a vision of the owner to have a space builders, designers, and retail customers alike to come and create their vision seamlessly,” says MC Surfaces’ Statewide Director Jennifer Dwire. “We began in the tile business and evolved over time into multiple other services and offerings. “We offer several products turnkey making it effortless for builders, designers, and retail customers to get a quick turn-

his daughter’s problem. “He said I should start something where I did all of that, where I go in and make one bid and line everybody out,” Lani says. “There’s only one person doing the bid and there’s only one appointment I would have to make.” And like any good father would, Wes came home to help Lani in any way he could. “We started HFG Maintenance and Construction in 2018,” Lani says. “Wes was ready to come home which is what HFG stands for: ‘Home for Good.’ It all just kind of fell into place.” Lani quit her property management job and went to work with Wes full-time, managing HFG’s marketing and business continued on Page 11

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arrett Gray and Jake Koziel aren’t building pools to allow people to walk on water, but some of Trinity Pool & Spa’s projects are sure to amaze. “We love the challenging and unique build,” Gray, Partner at Trinity Pool & Spa, says. “We had a customer request that we create see-through acrylic walls for his pool, to include a custom stainless-steel corner post and a powerful swim jet. Challenge accepted, and the pool turned out to be one of the best projects we’ve completed recently. Koziel mentions, “We have pools in construction that incorporate polished concrete slides, infinity edges, vanishing spas, and multi-level pools where water spills from the top pool to lower pool and allows people to slide from the upper

pool to the lower pool.” “We have a pool going in now that has a sunken fire pit on the inside of the pool itself. You walk out into the fire pit and the pool surrounds you, putting you at eye-level with those in the pool. We love building those types of pools where people want unique features. We love that kind of challenge.” For inspiration, Gray and Koziel draw from a combined 36 years of construction industry experience. In addition to Trinity Pool & Spa, Gray owns a custom homebuilding company G. Gray Services and Koziel owns and operates Commercial Door Resource. Trinity Pool & Spa is part of Trinity Services which focuses on HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, and Pool & Spa construccontinued on Page 11

Center of creativity

MC Surfaces 20,000sf design center in Cedar Park provides custom flooring, countertop fabrication and installation.

around on pricing, service and install,” she continues. “The turnkey offering includes all flooring applications, countertops, sinks, tile work, cabinetry, cabinet hardware and appliances. We also display lighting, plumbing, window coverings, exterior stone options and paint so clients can make us their one stop for all their selection needs.” Dwire says that, at this time, their regular customers include production builders, custom builders, general contractors, designers and retail/remodel clients. “We offer everything in one place for the client to make the process faster and easier when designing their new home or remodeled space. Again, being turnkey, we do the hard work for you. We also remain flexible on process with our clients – we never want them to feel they have to fit into our box.” MC Surfaces helps its customers through appointments only in order to continued on Page 11


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