Principals

Grant Lungren

Grant Lungren

Founder & President

  • Master’s Degree in Business Administration
  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Construction Engineering
  • Registered EI-Civil in California
  • Qualifying Party for contractor licenses in 5 states
  • 10 years of management consulting experience to contractors accross North America as Founder and President of Grantlun Corporation, Bozeman, MT
  • 12 years of hands-on construction experience as Project Engineer, Estimator, Project Manager and General Manager of infrastructure construction operations in Georgia, Washington and Arizona
  • 12 years of executive management experience as Chairman, CEO and President of Hard Dollar Corporation, Tempe, AZ, the nation’s then leading provider of estimating and project control systems to heavy-civil contractors
  • 22 years of heavy-civil construction systems design and development experience as Chief Architect of Hard Dollar’s Estimating Office System and Project Execution System and its first generation Bid-Build System; Data Quest’s Equipment Cost Estimator; Grantlun’s Strategic Business Planning System, Electronic Time Sheet System, Equipment Charge Rate Management System, Bid-Build Process Map Network and Key Document Library Systems
  • 10 years of executive management experience as President of Tanner Construction, Phoenix, AZ, the nation’s then largest federal highway-bridge builder
  • Past Member, American Council of Construction Education
  • Past Member, The Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering
  • Founder and Past Chairman, Hard Dollar Education Council
  • Past Member, Arizona State University Construction Advisory Council
  • Past Member, The Beavers, Heavy Engineering Construction Association
  • Past Member, President, Arizona Construction Training Center
  • Past Co-Chairman, Arizona State Governor’s Committee on Highway Construction
  • Past Director, Past Vice President, Associated General Contractors­ Arizona Heavy/Highway Chapter
  • Guest Lecturer, Colorado State University, Construction Symposium, “The Future of Construction Management”
  • Guest Lecturer at Arizona State University, Construction Management Course, “Information Technology in Construction”
  • Panel Member, Architect/ Engineer/Contractor Exposition, “Project Scheduling Technology”
  • Symposium leader, Architect/ Engineer/Contractor Exposition, “Mid-sized Construction Firm Management”
  • Session Leader, Dexter + Chaney Construction Conference, “Equipment Charge Rate Management”
Steve Blois

Steve Blois

Senior Consultant

  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering, California Polytechnic State University
  • Licensed contractor in California
  • 7 years of hands-on field experience in underground pipe and general engineering
  • 13 years of hands-on construction management experience as Project Manager, Estimator, General Superintendent of underground pipe & treatment plant operations
  • 9 years of executive management as President and General Manager of Blois Construction, Oxnard, CA
  • 5 years of executive consulting as President of Valley Vista Consulting, Inc., Camarillo, CA
  • Management Trustee, So. Calif. Laborers Health & Welfare Trust
  • Associated General Contractors of California (AGCC):
  • past Chair – Tri-Counties District
  • past Chair – Joint Engineering Division
  • past Chair – Fiscal, Insurance & Risk Mgt. Committee (F.I.R.M.)
  • State President
  • Cal State University Channel Islands Foundation – Board member
  • American Field Service (AFS) – Past Area Team Chair, Calif. Central Coast
  • Crestview Mutual Water Co. – Board member & Secretary
  • Camarillo Boys & Girls Club – Board Member
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