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A Commercial General Contractor
J.F. McCarthy has worked as a general
contractor in the United States for 37 years—during the second
half of the 20th century and first half of the 21st century. He
continues to work now, and hopes to work a good while longer.
Diverse Project Experience
Completed projects
include: single-family homes, low-rise residential (apartments,
nursing homes), hi-rise residential, municipal buildings (city
halls, police and fire stations), schools (preschools, grade and
high schools, and universities), offices (both entire office
buildings and tenant build-outs), retail and restaurants,
historical restoration, civil structures (sewage treatment
plants, spillways, and retaining structures), process
manufacturing plants, and medical (inpatient human hospitals,
outpatient facilities, and in and outpatient drug rehab and
psychiatric facilities, professional offices, dental offices,
and veterinary hospitals). So far, there have been no locks and
dams, bridges, tunnels, power plants, pipelines, or large road
projects.
Trade School, College, and MBA Training
A construction
education was assembled. At the start of the J.F. McCarthy’s
career, formal education in construction or construction
management was not yet offered. Three years of trade school
(drafting and blueprint reading, estimating, and scheduling), a
bachelors of science at a university (engineering and
architecture subjects), followed by an MBA were done instead.
And most of this was done at night school, while working during
the day.
Experience and Education Work Together
The difference
between the classroom and the workplace produced frustrations
for the author and undoubtedly aggravation for the teachers.
“No one does it that way” “Why does this work, when theory
says it should not?” and “How is it really done?” were not
always welcomed or well answered at the time. Reading, seminars,
and help from coworkers over 30 years have better answered these
questions.
Member of:
Center for Independent Publishing www.nycip.org
Chicago Book Clinicchicago book clinic
Independent Book Publishers Association
Independent Book Publishing Professionals Groupwww.ibppg.com
Small Publishers Association of North America www.spannet.org
and:
Construction Management Association of Americawww.cmaanet.org
International Facility Management Association www.ifma.org
National Fire Protection Association www.nfpa.org
Project Management Institutewww.pmi.org
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