Corridor to Secondary Conference Room.
Requirements vary based on the level of security required, “If I had to do something to make money, it would be this.”
but usually a SCIF includes double layers of drywall, RF Despite having been in business for two decades, the com-
shielding, and metal in the walls “so people can’t take a saw pany remains small and nimble. One employee, project man-
and cut through and gain access,” Viscardi said. ager Kali Varas, has been with Partner’s since practically the
Partner’s recently completed a 5,000 square-foot SCIF in very beginning.
tandem with Jacobs Engineering Group in Boston. “He’s always been easy to work for,” Varas said.
In fact, even the building where Partner’s is headquar- Lisa Castorina was a more recent hire—she joined the com-
tered is a SCIF. pany in April of 2008. Viscardi, for his part, is happy to sur-
Viscardi came to contracting through artistry: he holds a round himself with conscientious, ethical, considerate,
BFA in sculpture from the Corcoran College of Art + Design productive people. “She [Lisa] has long-term relationships
in D.C. He worked in Manhattan for a few years, turning with subcontractors ... she looks out for them, they look out
artists’ concepts into physical, 3-dimensional objects, and for her,” he said.
working as a carpentry contractor on the side. After a whirl- In the end, that’s what matters to Partner’s. Building rela-
wind tour of the finest art museums in Europe, “I was pretty tionships and making clients happy enough to negotiate re-
much flat broke and needed to get serious about making peat work. “That’s reward enough,” he said. “We don’t have
money,” he said. any ambitions of becoming a large general contractor. We
From those beginnings came a successful contracting pride ourselves on getting the job done in a timely fashion,
company. turning around a good product, and hopefully negotiating fu-
“There is a correlation [between construction and sculp- ture work with clients.”
ture],” he said. “You’re taking a 2-D plan and rendering it into
a 3-D space.
Congratulations to Partners Contracting
Access National Bank is proud to build business with such a fine team.
progressing business banking
Access National Bank
Mike Terpak, Vice President - Commercial Lending
www.AccessNationalBank.com 703-871-2100
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