_________________________________________________________________________________________ Tourmaline
Builders
Building custom homes throughout the coastal neighborhoods of San Diego, Tourmaline Builders( Tourmaline) has been expanding rapidly over the past 15 years. Currently located in Solana Beach, the company began in Pacific Beach and builds all the way from Coronado up to Oceanside. Tourmaline’ s President, Ben Ryan, a former Navy SEAL who got his start in construction building in a war zone in Baghdad, elaborates on Tourmaline’ s history and development:“ We started out doing smaller remodels and the size and complexity of our projects has grown substantially over time. We now build around ten to 12 luxury custom homes a year.”
Tourmaline takes pride in both the exceptional quality of its builds, and its high caliber of staff.“ Our business is unique in the way we staff a project,” Ben explains.
“ We have five project managers and four project coordinators, and we put two people on every project, each very competent and each with a vastly different skill set. We’ ll have a project manager in the field, managing subcontractors and quality control with a hands-on approach to the project. Alongside them is a project coordinator who’ s managing the budget, procurement, keeping the client informed, and coordinating with the interior designer and architect. It’ s very difficult to find a single project manager with the same skill set, the way most companies would traditionally run a custom home build, and that gives us a unique advantage.”
Client communication
Most of Tourmaline’ s builds are situated near the ocean and they are all very different, with each home showcasing its own distinctive details. Although the homes are all unique in
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