Building a Successful Construction Company

Building a Successful Construction Company by Patricia W. Atallah is a straightforward, conversational guide that emphasizes how strategic thinking is essential for starting and running a construction company today. With over 10 years of experience consulting on construction business practices, Atallah has worked with hundreds of companies and knows the tricks of the trade that continually prove successful. In Building a Successful Construction Company, the 2.7 million new and experienced contractors in the U.S. alone will welcome a practical, easy-to-read book that lays out the facts needed to get started, provides valuable resources and interactive tools, offers insightful anecdotes from top experts in the field, and helps them incorporate much-needed strategy and structure into their businesses. Armed with a real appreciation for the challenges that contractors face every day, Atallah has developed practical tools and advisory services aimed at helping contractors avoid the pitfalls and build a solid, stable, and profitable business.

Patricia W. Atallah has over 22 years of business and consulting experience. As Founder and President of SoundBuild, Inc., a construction consulting firm since 1994, she leads the firm’s efforts to provide comprehensive project planning, oversight and troubleshooting services primarily to public and private sector building owners. Tricia also provides management advisory services to construction firms, focusing on operational, organizational, management and strategic issues that can impinge on project and company success. She develops approaches and methodologies to assist clients to resolve pressing issues and improve management procedures and controls. Tricia also conducts seminars and publishes articles on effective project and company management and construction industry trends. She is a former corporate banker and holds an M.B.A. in Finance from The Stern School, New York University.