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Interior Exterior Specialist

By: scott.huish//October 14, 2019//

Interior Exterior Specialist

scott.huish//October 14, 2019//

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Interior Exterior Specialist
IES focuses on minorities, women in construction

When Interior Exterior Specialist describes what it does as 鈥渄emo to final clean and everything in between,鈥 that encompasses demolition services such as soft and full building, core drilling and saw cutting; build back services that include framing, drywall, finishes, accessory installation and painting; and final cleaning services like construction cleaning, super cleaning, intel fab and subfab cleaning.

The company鈥檚 portfolio includes such notable projects as the Grand Avenue Apartments, a 12-story, ground-up project. For the Jefferson Station portion of the new Multnomah County Central Courthouse, IES gutted the historical building and did a partial demolition. On the 19-story Broadway Tower, IES did the final cleaning after construction.

FOUNDED: 2007
28170 SW BOBERG ROAD
WILSONVILLE, OR 97070
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A defining moment for the company occurred with the Edith Green-Wen-dell Wyatt Building, IES鈥 first significant subcontract for demolition services. The scope included removing concrete masonry block walls, doors, hardware and carpet, and an interior gutting of the first two floors.

Meghan Herteg, project manager for Walsh Construction, called IES an 鈥渙utstanding representative鈥 of diversity. She noted that several women hold leadership roles within the company and it has a diverse workforce. On the Louisa Flowers Apartments project, IES鈥 workforce demographics were 80 percent minority and 10 percent female.

鈥淚ES genuinely focuses on hiring and developing minorities and women in the construction industry as well as partnering with MWESB-owned firms,鈥 she said.

Herteg added that when the project team was having overruns in punch costs, IES brought ideas to the table to help bring the overall project cost back in line.

鈥淭hey voluntarily gave up work by offering that the painter could fix many of the smaller issues for less cost than they could. Their management went even further and offered to do a punch walk with our field crew to see if she could help streamline the process,鈥 Herteg said.

Joy Wiberg is the founder and majority owner of IES. Her sons Teddy and Christopher also have ownership stakes in the company.

鈥 Melody Finnemore


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