Build Your Career is pleased to recognize Clancy & Theys Construction Company as our February 2021 “BYC Spotlight Series” featured member.  Clancy & Theys has been a longstanding Carolinas AGC member since 1949.  Since it was founded, the company has been deeply involved in community-based outreach projects and promoting construction career awareness throughout the Southeast.  From being actively involved with the Build Your Career program to participating in annual STEM career day events and even leading virtual project site tours for dozens of Wake County construction students, Clancy & Theys is a shining example of how our CAGC members are giving back to the industry that has given so much to them!

Mr. E.I. Clancy and Mr. John Theys, Founders of Clancy & Theys

Clancy & Theys, headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, was founded in 1949 by brothers’-in-law E.I. Clancy and John Theys. Over the years, the company has seen tremendous growth resulting in the expansion of their operations to now include offices in Wilmington and Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as Newport News, Virginia and Orlando, Florida.

Today, the company is celebrating their 72^nd year in business and boasts a wide-ranging portfolio of building projects including mixed-use facilities, hotels, R & D facilities, multi-unit residential projects, cultural buildings, sports facilities, office buildings and much more. Clancy & Theys Construction Company is a leader at providing private construction management, construction management at-risk (CM at-Risk or CMAR) and general construction services for commercial, industrial, and institutional projects including new construction and renovation.

The clancy & Theys Raleigh Crossing  building project under construction in raleigh, nc

Aside from their involvement with a variety of community-based organizations and their recent virtual construction education projects, Clancy & Theys has also been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades.  The company has been recognized for their spirit and practice of active collaboration and is one of the nation’s Top 100 CM at-Risk providers.  Clancy & Theys has also been named as one of the Top 4 Triangle Area General Contracting firms in North Carolina.

in 2015, Clancy & Theys Raleigh, Wilmington & Charlotte locations received the NC Department of Labor Gold Level Certificate of Safety

Clancy & Theys Construction Company is listed among the nation’s Top 100 Green Contractors for their approach to sustainable construction practices, including LEED^®.  The company has also received top safety honors from the North Carolina Department of Labor, winning multiple gold safety certificates from the agency over the years.  In 2015, Clancy & Theys also received the prestigious Vernon Malone College and Career Academy “Community Enhancement Award,” further demonstrating their long-term commitment to building better communities for those they have served for over seven decades.

Clancy & Theys Assistant Project Manager, Tyler Crum, conducting a virtual project site tour for Athens Drive High School in Wake County, NC

From their early beginnings, Clancy & Theys realized the key to their success was a direct result of the company’s commitment to actively providing construction career exposure to next gen workers.  Being deeply-rooted in this fundamental company philosophy, team members from several of their base locations participate annually in numerous STEM-related educational events and career fairs across the Carolinas, Virginia and Florida.  Clancy & Theys is also an avid supporter of the Charlotte Community ToolBank organization—donating almost 200,000 tools to the project over the years, nominating various employees to serve on its Board, contributing to the cause financially, as well as volunteering hundreds of labor hours.

Virtual clancy & theys project site tour streaming in live to the athens drive high school construction

Clancy & Theys Construction Company is prominently engaged with the Orlando ACE Mentor Program—working with area high school students to expose them to design and construction careers.  Through their ACE involvement, Clancy & Theys team members work in tandem with participating students and other industry mentors to establish an elaborate process to assist students develop a theme or conceptual project idea that eventually results in a completed construction project.  The company has also recently partnered with a local Wake County area high school to conduct virtual construction site tours to promote industry career awareness to construction program students.

During these recent virtual project site tours, the Clancy & Theys Raleigh team partnered with Athens Drive High School Construction CORE and Carpentry instructor Carl Robbins to walk a local building project site, filming the entire process.  During those virtual tours, a variety of the company’s employees were interviewed by Mr. Robbins and had the opportunity to describe various components of the building process while also detailing their specific role in that process.  These videos were then streamed into the classroom so the construction students could watch the tours in real-time.

Athens Drive HS Construction Program Instructor, Carl Robbins, onsite during a Clancy & Theys virtual site tour

The Athens Drive High School construction students also had the opportunity to engage in an informative and interactive Q & A session with the Clancy & Theys site workers to ask questions about what they saw and learned during the virtual tour—in essence, painting the full-scale picture for the students of what the entire building process consists of from start-to-finish.  When asked to comment on his experience working with Clancy & Theys to conduct these virtual project site visits, Carl Robbins remarked,  “I am very grateful for the opportunity to partner with Clancy & Theys Construction Company so we could coordinate these virtual project tours at their area construction sites and to also share this experience with the students in my classes.” 

during a virtual Clancy & theys project site tour, Mr. carl robbins live-streams the visit into his athens drive high school carpentry class

Mr. Robbins wasn’t the only one who had rave reviews for the Clancy & Theys folks who organized these fantastic virtual experiences for the Athens Drive construction class.  The students also offered their testimonials of endorsement:  “I had a lot a fun in the Intro to Carpentry class with the building projects and hands-on learning. But obviously due to COVID, that was not possible so I didn't know what to expect doing virtual learning for carpentry. I thought going to the worksites and us seeing what it's actually like was a pretty cool experience.  So to sum it up, my experience of this class will be a positive one” — Anonymous Athens Drive High School student.

Clancy & Theys Assistant PM, Tyler Crum, shares his industry expertise with construction students during a virtual project site tour

Robbins also shared a few inspirational words to encourage other CAGC member employers to follow the lead of Clancy & Theys and also engage in virtual construction career outreach at their local K-12 schools.  Robbins stated:  "To those who want to get involved and speak to kids wanting to learn what you already know, but not sure how to do it?  As a teacher who has had great success in setting meetings up with local construction companies and doing virtual tours with my students, my advice to you is stop trying to create a ‘perfect’ template to follow, and just go with the flow.  Be yourself.  Talk about how you got to where you are, what kinds of courses and training do THEY need to pursue, and so on.  When recording at your jobsite, take the camera to something important and explain it to them.  What makes it cool?  Why is it there?  What does it do?  Show people working with equipment, driving heavy machinery, different tradespersons doing what they do best.  Bottom line?  Construction sites are cool, and they impress people of all ages so have fun with this."

Clancy & Theys Assistant Project Managers, Tyler Crum & Josh Ferrell, are all smiles behind those face masks during their virtual project site tour

Clancy & Theys recognizes the benefits of developing partnerships with local high schools to engage in virtual construction education outreach, as well as getting involved with community service programs and organizations like CAGC and Build Your Career. Josh Ferrell and Tyler Crum, Assistant Project Managers of the Raleigh Crossing virtual site tour, shared: “We’ve enjoyed being a part of this initiative and helping teachers engage with their students while out of the classroom. As graduates of a construction management program, we always found job site visits were the most beneficial when it came to understanding the construction process and this is a clever way to accomplish this. We look forward to continuing to help out with this new way of educating our future workforce.”

Dave Simpson, President and CEO of Carolinas AGC

Carolinas AGC President and CEO, Dave Simpson, recognized Clancy & Theys for being such active CAGC members and for their impressive virtual construction career awareness outreach efforts by stating:  “There are thousands of excellent, challenging careers just waiting to be filled in the construction industry here in the Carolinas.  The virtual outreach Clancy & Theys is doing to recruit promising young folks into the construction industry is an excellent example of what we need to ramp up doing throughout the Carolinas."

On behalf of Carolinas AGC and its Foundation, Build Your Career is proud to acknowledge Clancy & Theys as our “Spotlight Series” featured member for February 2021.  We honor their accomplishments and steadfast efforts in promoting construction careers and workforce development—both live and virtually—on behalf of the construction industry.  Clancy & Theys truly exemplifies community outreach as they continue “giving back” to the community they’ve helped build for almost 70 years, illustrating how our Carolinas AGC member firms continue to set the gold standard in our industry for what it takes to sustain it for many years to come.

For more information on the CAGC Foundation’s Build Your Career workforce development initiative or to volunteer to be a BYC Ambassador, please contact BYC Program Director, Tammy Ford, via email at tford@carolinasagc.org or by phone at (704) 995-3901. To learn more about how your company can become involved with virtual construction career awareness activities or to request BYC e-resources to facilitate and support virtual outreach efforts, please submit your email request to BYCsupport@carolinasagc.org.  To learn more about Clancy & Theys employment opportunities, please visit their website or contact the Corporate office at (919) 834-3601.

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