By Dennis Howard, RDO Equipment – January 14, 2025 – For Construction PROS.com
What’s the first thing we all do in a new city? Search Google or Yelp for places to eat. Then, we ask a few folks to see if the “five-star reviews” translate into meaningful experiences. In industries like ours, delivering world-class service every day is not only the norm but the entry price for civil and residential contracting. In a state like Texas, where demand for development and housing only continues to grow, one company in its first few years of business has embraced machine monitoring to optimize their team’s performance to serve their customers – and keep earning those five-star reviews.
I met with the Five Star Civil Construction while they worked on a residential job site in the Texas Hill Country, a short drive from Austin. I spoke with two of Five Star Civils managing partners, Matt Gillum and Jared Davis, about how they started.
“We were at the same company for a few years,” Davis explained. “We kind of found each other as we worked our way up to the vice president level.”
Davis, like the other five managing partners at Five Star, has been in construction for most of his life. He said the partners recognized their shared ambition and began to think about how they could work together. In early 2022, the managing partners founded their own construction company, which aligned a partnership mindset to build a construction legacy committed to relationships and excellence. Now entering its third year of business, the multifaceted civil construction company provides turnkey construction services with 100-plus team members.