The experienced journeymen who once trained young apprentices are retiring. Technical knowledge accumulated over decades risks disappearing with them, even as an industry under pressure to build faster and cheaper is being asked to solve increasingly complex problems involving resilience, affordability, sustainability and performance. “We’re going to have to mentor. We’re going to have to educate,” he says. “We’re at that pinnacle point. What we do now is setting the future for our children, our grandchildren and the next generation.”
For Robert, the future is not an abstraction.
He has watched his daughters begin careers of their own. He now looks toward his granddaughters and the world they will inherit. Their future has given new meaning to a principle he encountered early in business: that every consequential decision should be considered not only for today, but for three generations ahead.
“If we thought like that in everything we do, this world would be a better place,” he says.
That belief sits at the heart of Lord General Contractors, reflected in the precision of the work, the resilience of the structures and the performance built into every home. It is also found in something less visible: the idea that a builder owes a duty to people he may never meet. When a Home Outlives the Project “As long as I can, I will” —Robert Lord | Master Builder Lord General Contractors
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