When you're managing that project, you have to know your numbers.

You might have to pivot to a different trade partner.

You know what your numbers are in labor so that you can negotiate a new partner to come in.

So yeah, you really have to have not just knowledge of the numbers, but you have to want to understand what they are.

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, a regular discussion with building industry professionals.

This is Fine Home Building contributor and production manager at TDS Custom Construction, Ian Schwant.

Today, I'm joined by Dan Pernell, production manager at Alloy Workshop in Charlottesville, Virginia.

You can find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Homebuilding podcast at Fine Homebuilding.com

slash podcast. You can leave feedback and ask questions there too. Dan, thanks for joining me today.

Pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me.

Can you give us a little bit of background on what Alloy Workshop does and what your role is at L.A.

Yeah. So we're a design build company.

I've been in business since 2007.

I've been with a company for just over two years now, started in an estimating role and have moved into the production manager role within the last six to eight months.

We focus on mostly renovation work, about 90% renovation. We'll do about one new bill the year

and just work with our clients starting to design into construction.

So what was it that brought you to Alloy?

Did you start off?

You said you started off as an estimator.

What was that position like for you to come into there?

Yeah, so it was really giving me a background of the industry.

I had no industry experience prior to coming on with Alloy except for, you know, what I was doing on my own home as I was kicking the tires and learning how to do things.

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