2013 Business of the Year
Stiles Construction
- Economy has taken a toll on government services.
- Public/private partnerships play a critical role
- ensuring the functionality of essential government services.
- Pleased to tell of one such highly successful partnership
- Fostered good will
- ensured a higher level of public safety.
- In 2012 Stiles Company began construction on One Plantation Place
- High rise apartment complex
- Potential increased demands on the Fire Department capabilities and resources.
- Presented training opportunity
- Gave us a chance to prepare for a potential crisis.
- Project Manager, Lori Douvris (Doo Vrees) and the entire Stiles team opened their doors and their hearts
- Welcomed us onto their property and into their lives.
- Jointly planned, developed and implemented high rise fire training
- Effectively developed and employed new department procedure for managing high rise incidents.
- Stiles personnel frequently walked the property with us
- Showed us the ins and outs of the buildings,
- Kept us apprised of their progress and offered the best times to access the property.
- During drills
- Provided a member of their team
- On site each night
- Addressed our needs
- Then secured the property when we left.
- Short story illustrating their commitment to the City.
o Began the drill one night
o Inadvertently drove over a portion of their landscaping
o Did significant damage.
o Tried to clean it up,
o Damage was far too great.
o Called them the next morning
o Fess up to our transgressions,
o Their response “I guess we’ll have to widen the drive area so you can get those big trucks through.”
- As a result of planning, cooperation, and team effort
- Able to develop, test and execute an organized plan for battling high rise incidents in a way we never had before.
- Therefore, as a result of their team effort, sense of community spirit, and, commitment to the City
- Present Stiles Construction as our 2013 Business of the Year.