What the Business Pros Know

The Last Strategy for Reducing the Cost of Your Next Project

August 6, 2024

Vaughn Prost

Prost Builders carefully vets its professional trade contractor partners to ensure the success of projects and Strategy No. 7 is exactly about that. Sean Lundy, president and CEO of MP Lundy Construction, Inc. and an inaugural member of the Construction Leadership Network, discusses this strategy in detail. General contractors and commercial builders rightfully take credit for their contribution to the success of their projects, but we rely heavily on the professional, innovative, and committed trade contractor partners who work with us to make it all happen.

Choosing the right trade contractor partners is a make-or-break factor for a project’s success, so we continually look for ways to strengthen our relationships with the best in our area. Lundy states that if your project has a roster of strong trades, you’re halfway to phenomenal success. All that’s needed is a builder who is focused on planning and great at leading, which leads us back to Strategy No. 1.

Hiring the right team and promoting a positive team culture will make all the difference in keeping construction costs in check, which is what astute buyers and owners know. Every project has a unique set of challenges and requirements, but the 7 Strategies we follow are found at work in every successful project. When looking ahead for the next construction project, it’s important to use these strategies as a tool when choosing your general contractor and their building team.

Prost Builders has proven their success with these 7 Strategies as evidenced by our long list of successful projects for over 75 years of serving Central Missouri clients. Our client’s new projects have included medical clinics and hospitals, office buildings, distribution and warehouse facilities, industrial facilities, schools, government buildings, and ecclesiastical facilities. Our historical renovation and restoration client projects include Boone County Courthouse, Cole County Courthouse and Annex, Missouri State Capitol, the Governor’s Mansion and Garden, Jesse Hall at the University of Missouri Columbia Campus, and numerous other historical projects throughout the State of Missouri.

Our passion is to construct projects so that our clients are completely satisfied! Prost Builders, Inc.’s current and former construction professionals are very proud of our 75-year legacy of projects and our current professionals look forward to building another 75-year legacy of quality projects for new completely satisfied clients.

If you’re interested in building a future project, let us know, because we’re ready to help you grow your business.

Vaughn Prost is the owner and president of Prost Builders lnc., a design/build and construction services firm located in Columbia. Vaughn has over forty years of domestic and international design and construction experience as a cost and scheduling engineer, structural engineer, owner’s construction representative, and general contractor.