- Award category: Fine Design
- Speciality: Design/build remodeling
- 7 years in business
- 2010 volume: $.974593 million
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Staff: 2 office, 1 field
Credit: Eric Weeks
After parting ways with his business partner of 10 years in a successful design/build company, architect Todd Miller established QMA as a traditional general contracting company. QMA subcontracts all its labor, which offers Miller “enormous flexibility.” Now he is the liaison between sales, design, and construction; his wife, architect Jeannette Quon (the “Q” in QMA), focuses on design.
For their office, Miller took a chance on a former dental office in a storefront on the first floor of a beachfront highrise in their Jersey Shore community. He discovered 16-foot spaces under the drop ceiling and 14-foot–high street-facing windows, which he put to good use featuring giant LCD screens showing a continuous slide show of QMA’s work and its many awards.
Miller doesn’t bid jobs and takes only five or six large jobs a year, which helps keep overhead low.