86 Acquisition International - Influential Businesswoman Awards 2023 own, and warns anyone else thinking of starting a business in this field to go in with their eyes open. She learned fast that if you can’t handle getting your feelings hurt, it is probably not the best choice of business. That’s because the construction industry is full of bulldogs, and things can sometimes become quite a challenge. She also has to communicate with a huge amount of people and different trades every day, for example engineers, fabricators, general contractors, and erectors. She cautions anyone going into the industry to be prepared to hear clients making impossible demands such as ‘I need it yesterday’. In such circumstances, she feels there is no way around it other than to handle things with assured confidence and authority. Jennifer initially assumed things would be harder for her in the construction industry because she’s a woman. However, she is delighted to admit that this assumption was completely wrong, and she has been able to reach success in the industry just as well, if not better, as a woman. She thinks that being a structural detailing firm means respect is earned through the drawings you submit, and not through how much you can bench press. She advises other women that regardless of what industry they might be pursuing, they just need to be proud of what they have to offer the world. That is why the Influential Businesswoman Awards have seen fit to announce Best Structural Services Businesswoman2023 (Midwest USA): Jennifer Dameron. Well done to her and her remarkable structural detailing company. Company: West Michigan Structural Services, L.L.C. Web Address: www.westmichiganstructural.com Contact Name: Jennifer Dameron Best Structural Services Businesswoman 2023 (Midwest USA): Jennifer Dameron nyone needing to build a structure requires top-quality structural detailing. This is where detailed drawings are developed for clients to instruct them on exactly what they need to do to get their constructions made effectively. West Michigan Structural creates structural steel detailing through the development of shop drawings and erection drawings fabricators and erectors need to help them build a structure. It does this by producing high-quality drawings for its clients, producing both types of drawings needed for this purpose. Its shop drawings are more detailed than its erection drawings as each steel element, such as beams, columns, joists, and braces, are all meticulously detailed in shop drawings. This shows the steel fabricators exactly how to make each component. Shop drawings need to include the dimensions, sizes, welding, bolting, material specifications, and any other details required for fabrication. Its erection drawings are a different set of drawings designed to instruct the erectors or other trades people on how to put the structure together. Business owner Jennifer Dameron explains this by comparing it to the instructions that come with Lego sets, but with considerably more pieces to think about. As she says, everyone has probably bought a piece of furniture, or a children’s toy that came with difficult to understand instructions that made it hard to assemble, and it ended up turning out quite differently to what the picture showed. Being a structural detailer is similar as it requires the putting together of correct, efficient, and clear erection drawings. The main difference being that with West Michigan Structural at the helm, there won’t be any issues with the finished structure not looking like the picture. Jennifer first became interested in the structural detailing industry through her fiancé, who has worked in construction for 15 years, and been detailing for 13. Although Jennifer began her journey by working for a detailing company, it wasn’t long before she was driven to move forward and begin doing her own thing. Of course, this was a nerveracking thing to do at first, especially as it meant she needed to pick up the phone and try to engage clients. But despite her nerves, it turned out that Jennifer was a great success at promoting her service to customers. It worked superbly well, and before long Jennifer had created numerous successful relationships within her industry, stretching all over the world. For Jennifer, working in construction is a passion, and she absolutely adores what she does. But she is well aware that it is a world of its A Jun23266 Structural detailing company West Michigan Structural is a trusted partner of the construction industry for whom it makes shop drawings and erection drawings for fabricators and erectors building structures. It uses SDS/2 software to ensure clients receive high quality drawings to guide them through the entire process.
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