b'MEMBER PROFILEIt was a power dam. If any water comes through that skylight, it would be going right onto the equipment, so it made for quite a challenge. We worked on it for months. You have this opening at the top that you have to protect, and youre sort of doing them one panel at a time way high up, which also brings the safety side into the equation.Looking to the future, staffing will dictate growth for the company. The one downside to having a growing company is that its very hard to find qualified workers just in the construction industry as a whole, and so the growth of your business is limited by your ability to find qualified staff, notes Dotschkat.Dotschkat also emphasizes that productivity, too, is all about staffing. You try to provide a place for them where they can be happy and effective when they come in every day. Its probably our number-one priority, because we cant do anything without them, she says. They need to be able to afford to live in the area, so thats also a consideration, but we also want to make sure our staff is feeling valued and productive. We want them to be able to continue to grow with us, so were always looking for educational opportunities for them. The partners understand that its not just being able to attract skilled staff that assists in productivity, says Dotschkat, but also staff retention. A stable staff that ends up working together for a longer period of time is going to be able to find efficiencies and workflow improvements just because they are so familiar with working together as a crew, she explains. That in itself increases efficiency.While rightfully proud of their work, its something more personal that is extra gratifying for Glass Canada. Were local, concludes Dotschkat, and were staffed with all local people, and for the most part, we all grew up in the Okanagan Valley. When youve been here forever like we havelong-term members of the communityyou have your friends in the industry, which I think has been helpful [on the business side] over the years, but we do everything we can to support our community. We give back by supporting our local associations, and were working hard to help to make the constructionwww.nor-valsales.com844-521-1714industry here as good as it can be.SICA CONSTRUCTION REVIEWFall 202127'