ABOUT US
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A drainage project for an airstrip. Remote projects like this one often relied on almost 100% hand labor, and thus required development of close relationships with local officials and residents. |
Heaslet Corporation was founded in 1992 by Stuart Heaslet as a project services company. Under his guidance the company has garnered significant and wide-ranging experience on many different projects in the Western Hemisphere.
The philosophical core of the company revolves around doing good works that improve communities and the environment.
It has been a challenging and sometimes uncomfortable process - but the record of achievements speaks for itself.
This approach has shaped the sometimes eclectic nature of what the company does - some have called it a "boutique" project services company. To some degree that is true in regard to its project selection process, but the company uses time-tested traditional and transparent management, logistics and metrics to execute and audit projects.
Early projects were the traditional "construction-only" jobs such as hotel and condominium re-construction and conversions, and renovations of retail, commercial, restaurants and compliant kitchens, and residential and commercial historic rehabilitation and restorations.
As the company evolved jobs began to include dental and medical clinics, museums, zoos and other exhibit venues, public schools renovations including ADA compliance and HVAC energy retrofits, performing arts centers, underground and topographic civil works and communication/television broadcast towers.
Institutional clients began asking for help with funding sources for capital construction and program funding, and so Heaslet developed in-house resources to assist them with fundraising strategies, grant acquistion, and if necessary accompanying public relations. The company quickly learned that many clients needed help to integrate solid programs with their capital campaigns in order to get public and private funding.
Facilities management services became increasingly important as well, with Heaslet organizing and producing practical and usable operations and maintenance (O&M) manuals for use by client facilities personnel and setting up preventative and deferred maintenance schedules.
Heaslet also helped engineering firms, school districts, county agencies and energy service companies recover energy and capital construction grant funding from federal and state sources. This was particularly important for performance contract energy retrofits that required additiional construction renovations beyond the limited budgets available for lighting, HVAC and controls retrofits. Heaslet's knowledge of construction processes in regulated environments helped garner millions of dollars in grant awards for performing arts centers, school facilities, recreation centers, museums and zoos and other facilites.
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Heaslet continues to provide design/construction management services but now has direct experience developing national and regional parks. One of the crowning achievements was the development of Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary in Barbados, a 35-acre national environmental center within the Graeme Hall Wetland. The wetland is internationally recognized as a protected Ramsar site under the Convention on Wetlands.
New projects that stretch the imagination are always sought. In the last few years the company has provided strategic assessments and video/documentary services, and has managed public media outreach for environmental, social services, education and other objectives.