Late in the summer of 1998, Huzefa Tinwala was at home in Mumbai, India packing his bags for the next big step in his education. He found himself in the midst of the existential angst that international students experience before embarking on their journey – but it was short lived. Earlier in the year, he had been accepted into The Master of Science in Construction Management degree program at Texas A&M and had since been dreaming of the opportunities that such an education would afford him. He and his brother, Mark, had been raised around metalwork: their grandfather and father were in the brass, tin, and zinc manufacturing business where they produced commercial items like oil drums and metal doors before concentrating solely on stainless steel doors and railings. “That’s how we learned about the subtle disciplines we’re in now,” Tinwala explains. These “subtle disciplines” are what make Viva Railings, based in Carrollton, Texas, so unique and so successful. Tinwala and his Modular Railing Systems team specialize in Design, Engineering, Fabrication, and Installation. This “one- stop shop approach,” as he puts it, has led to a 140% three-year growth rate since 2013, thanks in part to the clout of multi-million dollar projects.
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SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS • SEPTEMBER 2016
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