An engineer turned builder runs additions like engineering projects.
Grant spent ten years designing structures before he started building them. His additions company runs on the same thing his engineering did: clear records and no surprises.
- Who
- Grant Oyelaran, Owner
- Company
- Foothill Builders
- Trade
- General contracting and additions
- Where
- Boise, ID
- Size
- $16M a year
- Team
- 5 project managers, 30 in the field
- 5 PMs
- running jobs from the same record
- Homeowners
- see schedule, photos, and payments in the portal
- Change orders
- approved before the work, every time
From calculations to construction
Grant came to the US for graduate school, worked as a structural engineer in Seattle for a decade, and moved to Boise in 2014. He started Foothill Builders to do the additions he kept seeing done badly.
The company grew fast with Boise. By 2022 it had five project managers, and each one ran their jobs differently.
Why he switched
Additions are long projects with a lot of decisions. Grant wanted every decision recorded, every change approved in writing, and homeowners able to see where things stood.
Now each project is one record with its schedule, photos, change orders, and payments. Homeowners follow along in their portal and approve changes from their phones.
“Engineering taught me one thing: write it down before you build it.”
What changed at work
His five PMs run jobs the same way now, which means Grant can step into any project and know where it stands.
Disputes about what was agreed mostly disappeared, because what was agreed is signed and attached.
What changed at home
He plays in a Sunday soccer league, and he is the oldest player on the team by a decade.
His son is starting college for civil engineering, which Grant says was not his idea but secretly was.
“I can walk into any of our projects and know where it stands in two minutes.”
What Grant runs on Revcore
What it replaced
- Five PMs, five ways of running jobs
- Change orders by email
- Homeowner updates by phone call
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