Hickory Group | February 2015 -sources across projects, and generally operate faster and more efficiently. It also gives them more control − and subsequently exposes them to less risk − because they’re handling the bulk of the work themselves without having to outsource work unnecessarily. “A lot of construction contractors operate more as project managers, so whilst they hire a lot of people to manage the projects, they generally just contract out the bulk of the actual building work to other subcontractors,” Nadia explains. “Hickory is a bit different because we’ve taken on a lot of those capabilities in-house. For example, we have our own concrete division, our own structures division, our own carpentry division that does all the interior building fit-outs, and our own teams installing façades where they’re designing and engineering window systems and procuring themdirectly through our own employees offshore.” “In addition to all of those divisions, being able to prefabricate bathrooms andwhole structures in our own factory means that we have a lot of different tools at our disposal, so we can choose whichever will be best for
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