“We treat every client as our only client and always deliver on our promise of service, quality and integrity,” Q&D founder and long-time owner Norm Dianda said. Indeed, Q&D has grown in response to the needs of our clients. “We didn’t start Q&D with the intention of building a large company.” Dianda added. “We grew as a result of responding to our clients’ requests to bring our particular brand of schedule-focused, professional construction management to other aspects of their projects.”
In 1983, Q&D added the Heavy/Civil Group to work together with developers and public agencies to provide earthmoving, pad and utility construction. “When you are opening a new business, it’s important to have the road to get customers in there completed on time for the grand opening,” says VP-Heavy / Civil Jeff Bean. “Why put that in the hands of someone who doesn’t understand your needs or feel as strongly about your opening day plans as you do? That’s why we started Heavy / Civil, to offer our clients the choice of additional means to control cost and schedule.”
In 1999, Q&D created a specialized team within the Heavy/Civil Group to focus on concrete structures for both building foundations and roadwork. “When we built the pad infrastructure and many of the shell buildings at the Summit Sierra Mall, that was a great example of the partnership among our internal groups and the skills of our specialized teams for concrete and paving,” says Q&D’s president Lance Semenko. “Our client, Bayer Properties, relied on us to be responsive as they completed lease deals with potential tenants. It’s hard to judge when negotiations would be complete; hard to schedule around that kind of thing. So having a team of both heavy/civil and commercial building professionals ready to support them and focused on their needs was critical to multiple grand openings.”
