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Feature: Quality Check
Building a high-quality house has never been easy. But with houses that are required to perform better than ever before combined with ravenous demand and a shifting labor market, it's harder than ever to please customers, go fast, and keep the bottom line black. This dynamic has tested how we manage the quality of our work and changed the way many contractors direct their building process. Unchecked speed for the sake of paring down cycle time has cultivated an environment of inferior workmanship, the effects of which are rippling through the industry.
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All-American Hand-Off
Mike Satran is proud of his children. Shelley and Brad Satran aren't just any kids working in the family business. Both graduated from Oregon universities with higher than 3.5 grade-point averages. Both attended college on full-tuition athletic scholarships. Both were named All-American athletes --Brad as a wide receiver, Shelley as a track star. "How many All-Americans do you know?" asks their dad. "And I have two kids who were All-Americans."
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