You can give owners exactly what they are looking for. Growing Pains E ach year, the Giants tend to grow their businesses. While growth can be a good thing, such rapid growth puts a strain on a business, says Fimiano of Southland Industries, where revenue has almost doubled over the past two years. Not on our shop capacity, but more on our financial and personnel capacity. It's tough on people to keep up with that sort of growth.
Growth strains companies in other ways too.
The current shortage of skilled workers in the construction industry, combined with a booming economy in certain regions, can create a stressful atmosphere. In San Francisco and Seattle, the continuing boom of the biotech and high-tech electronics markets, identified in Contractor's May 1993 Giants survey, has created personnel problems. On one job we've got 120 men working seven days a week on a plant. That's a lot to ask. New Sectors B esides creating personnel availability problems, the increased work in the electronics market has created more projects.