Performance - Core Value
At Martin Horn and throughout the construction industry, what we do can be seen and touched every day. How we work, how we perform, and how we deliver have a direct result on the stuff we build. You cannot hide your performance when one’s direct efforts are manifested into physical buildings in real time.
It is one thing to look at a building and say it was done on time and on budget but if you really want to be proud of that building, you look inward and say, I worked my ass off getting that done. I did my job, I helped others do their job, I trained and taught and pushed and pulled, and the team got that building accomplished.
The nuts and bolts of performance at Martin Horn are about following the proven process. This is shared, communal information established over years of experience. We get trained on it, we get to improve upon it, we get to share it. Every day we prepare for the worst and ask for the best. We make sure the processes that have been carried out are followed for any project that we tackle. We follow the same rhythms and rituals from pre-con through close-out that keep our clients and team members informed, up to date, and happy. We trust and verify; we do it right, we admit our mistakes and work hard to correct them.
The biggest compliment Martin Horn can receive from our clients is when they say, “you made that easy for us”. At the end of the day, we say “we build stuff,” but we know it isn’t easy; it is hard work.
VIA Centers for Neurodevelopment: breaking ground on the Webb building, which will roughly double the school's capacity for people with autism and neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Region Ten: building emergency shelters, administrative offices, and clinic space across Central Virginia, and standing up the region's first COVID vaccine stations in the early days of the pandemic.
Vista 29: general contractor on 80 units of permanent supportive housing for people who've experienced chronic homelessness.
Charlottesville's low-barrier shelter: involved in the planning and pricing through multiple design iterations, some of it paid work and some of it not, because getting this one right for the city and the providers who'll run it mattered more than whether we got paid for every hour.
The Charlottesville Free Clinic: building out the pharmacy and fitting out the dental space in its new home so people without insurance can get the care and medicine they need at no cost, and generally being their go-to.
Community Dental Center: building for an organization that provides dental care to kids.
Building Goodness Foundation: built its headquarters at cost, so an organization that sends volunteers around the world to build clinics and schools finally had a building of its own.
First Baptist Park Street and Portico Church: currently under construction, because building for a congregation is a form of service too.
Meals on Wheels and the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank: provided pro bono pricing and estimating so these organizations could take real numbers to their boards and donors.
Martin Horn Helps: our own fund for our people in hard times, whose board also stewards the local Imagination Library, mailing free books to kids from birth to age five.
Pearlington, Haiti, and Guatemala: trips our own people have taken to help rebuild communities after disaster, alongside local days of caring with Building Goodness Foundation.
Different projects, same reason we're on them: we bring value, and it matters.
