How to Develop Your Career in the Construction Industry with Andrew Gardner, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Peacock Construction

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Andrew Gardner

Andrew GardnerAndrew Gardner is the Director of Marketing and Business Development at Peacock Construction. As a creative thinker and long-term strategist, Andrew drives brand strategy and growth at Peacock Construction. He began his construction career in project management, estimating, and developing an appreciation for the intricacies of construction. He now uses this knowledge to develop partnerships with new clients and look after existing partners at Peacock Construction.  

Andrew is also the Chair of the Emerging Professionals Committee at BOMA San Francisco and the Chair of the Young Leaders Programs Committee at CoreNet Global’s Northern California Chapter.

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Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: 

  • Andrew Gardner talks about his education, travel experience, and how he got his start in the construction industry
  • How Andrew and Greg’s experiences abroad helped them discover their path
  • Andrew shares what he learned in his role as a project manager
  • How did Andrew transition from project management to marketing and business development?
  • Peacock Construction’s approach to overcoming the pandemic’s challenges
  • The increasing popularity of the life sciences industry
  • Andrew discusses his marketing strategies and future plans for 2021—and why you should solidify your construction plans right now
  • Why should you consider a career in the construction industry, and how can you get started?

In this episode…

Construction is a long-lasting industry with immense opportunities to develop your career. For Andrew Gardner, the industry has allowed him to connect with a variety of people and establish a strong sense of community. There are plenty of different roles and possibilities within construction, and Andrew is here to share all of the details with you.

Andrew began his career in project management, where he was the intermediary between the owner, subcontractors, architects, and everyone else involved in the project. He then built on this knowledge to become a marketing and business development expert. So, what’s the key to figuring out where you fit in? According to Andrew, the best thing you can do for your career is to just get started — even if you don’t know exactly what you want to do.

In this episode of Watching Paint Dry, Greg Owens is joined by Andrew Gardner, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Peacock Construction, to discuss everything you need to know about the construction industry. Andrew shares how he landed his current role, his steps for overcoming current challenges, trends to look for in the industry, and how you can get your career started. Stay tuned.

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This episode is brought to you by McCarthy Painting, where we serve commercial and residential clients all around the San Francisco Bay area. 

We’ve been in business since 1969 and served companies such as Google, Autodesk, Abercrombie & Fitch, FICO, First Bank, SPIN, and many more. 

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Episode Transcript

Intro  0:03  

Welcome to the Watching Paint Dry podcast where we feature today’s top facility managers, property managers and property owners talking about the challenges and opportunities of managing hundreds of 1000s of square feet of real estate and how to beautify and improve their properties. Now, let’s get started with the show.

Greg Owens  0:32  

Good morning, everyone. This is Greg Owens with the podcast Watching Paint Dry, where we continue our series of talking to facilities managers, property owners, property managers, building owners, and business owners and contractors. everything related to the facilities industry and other things as well. This podcast is sponsored by my company McCarthy Painting, it was started in 1969 by my uncle Fred McCarthy, I started working at the age of 16, with my uncle, and it was back when we were both painting and and we did a lot of painting in the field and learning from the ground up. And now we are a premier painting contractor throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, we do a tremendous amount of projects for companies like h&m stores, we’ve done First Bank, Chase Bank, we’ve done work for Google, we’ve been out there doing work for Spin, Zooks, and many, many others. If you have any painting needs whatsoever for both residential and commercial painting, you can contact us at info@McCarthypainting.com or McCarthypainting.com also works. And I’m really excited to have Andrew Gardner is the business development and marketing person for Peacock Construction. Welcome to the podcast, Andrew and we also have Katrina Stephenson, who is an employee of McCarthy Painting and also in business development. So this would be a lively, fun conversation, because marketing is always that way. And as a business owner, it’s such a big bit of I don’t know, probably I spend most of my time thinking about marketing, business marketing, business development, and that kind of thing. So it’s great to have you on the podcast, how are you holding up at this time? Andrew?

Andrew Gardner  2:34  

Great, it’s great to be part of it. I appreciate you, uh, welcoming onto it. And so far, we’re doing okay, you know, not easy out there. But there is enough to keep things moving. So yeah, you know, we’re kind of trying to pivot and be flexible and be a little bit more creative in our approach to developing business and marketing. But overall, you know, we’re making some progress, even things moving forward.

Greg Owens  2:53  

And pivot has been like, the word I’ve seen thrown around. I mean, it was being thrown around before this pandemic, but definitely, everybody’s had to make some sort of pivot in their life, no matter what they do, or where they’re at. And you personally, like, like, COVID, how’s this been for you this, in retrospect, looking at this last year, you know, I’m

Andrew Gardner  3:13  

pretty fortunate, I don’t think that I was personally affected by it as much as a lot of people are, I mean, we live out in the East Bay. So you know, our house has a yard, makes it, you know, easy to get outside. I’m also a pretty big outdoorsman. And so, you know, on weekends, we’re usually doing stuff in the outdoors, and then a pretty good reprieve from everything. But you know, I really feel for the people who were stuck in apartments or don’t have the same kind of passion for the outdoors that we do. So overall, it’s been okay, you know, I’m just trying to stay positive and recognize all the benefits of a lifestyle that we do live. Right, right. Yeah.

Greg Owens  3:45  

Yeah. I think being able to go outside and have you know, some of those kinds of freedoms. I mean, they tried taking some of that stuff away, for sure. Right. But yeah, I think a lot of us knew secret spots and that kind of thing. And it was like, there’s no way this Yeah, I sanity. And I can only imagine, you know, I go into the city a lot. I’m located here in Marin County, and, and I go into the city a lot and being you know, an apartment that never appealed to me before, then it’s got to be it’s got to be tough. And I noticed so many people that have fled the city at this point, you know, in a lot of ways, it feels like a ghost town over there.

Andrew Gardner  4:21  

Now, I know it’s been interesting.

Greg Owens  4:23  

Yeah. And so tell me a bit about your career path here and business development in construction. And well, how did that come to be?

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