A personal proposal from Rowena Tulacz, President of R. Construction Solutions.
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A personal proposal from Rowena Tulacz, President of R. Construction Solutions.
Long time. Watching you go from Waukegan to running Germantown has been a thing to see. Congrats.
I'm putting this together because I keep hearing the same thing from Presidents of shops like yours: every problem the company can't solve internally lands on my desk. There's no one above me. Nowhere to escalate.
If that sounds familiar, I might be able to help. Not as a vendor — as the industry veteran in the chair next to you that you don't have to put on payroll.
For 30+ years I've been on the other side of your contracts. GC-side. Owner-side. The side of the table that decides who pays, who gets paid, who gets the next job, and who gets sued.
You don't need someone who knows your shop — you have a shop full of people who know your shop. You need someone who knows what your customers want before they ask, what makes them whole when things go sideways, and which of them are worth chasing.
That's the lens I bring.
This is the conversation nobody at a 1968-founded shop wants to have out loud. The names on your active project list have been there for 25 years. The bench behind them is good — but it's not that good yet.
What I do: I'm the senior PM in the chair next door for them. Not for you — for them. They text me. They send me the GC email and ask "should I send this?" They run a change order narrative past me before it goes out.
Five years from now, your bench is your front line. This is how you get them ready.
GC consolidation has tightened the customer pool.
Tariff swings keep biting estimates.
Skilled labor is short and getting shorter.
AISC audit pressure isn't going anywhere.
Every 1968-era shop in the Midwest is one or two retirements away from a succession question that hasn't been planned for.
You can't hire your way out of any of those problems fast enough. But you can have a veteran advisor on call inside of a month.
You and me. Phone or video. No pitch. I want to hear what's actually on your desk this month and tell you whether I'm the right person to help.
If this isn't the right fit right now, no harm done — the barn door stays open on my end. (Couldn't help myself. 😉)
Pick a Friday. I'll bring the coffee in spirit.
I'll be in the area June 4–10. Easy drive up to Germantown from Chicago. If a coffee at the shop is better than a call, say the word and I'll put it on the calendar.
Estimated. Loaded cost includes payroll tax, benefits, recruiting, ramp time, and overhead. Numbers walked through on the call.
