About
HR that shows up in work boots
Building Force Solutions is a fractional HR consulting firm founded by Trevor Burns and based in the Kansas City metro. The firm gives construction and trades businesses with 5 to 150 employees senior HR leadership focused on execution: compliance, documentation, hiring systems, and real workforce problems.
Why This Firm Exists
Small businesses carry big-company risk
A 30-person contractor faces most of the same employment laws as a 3,000-person corporation. The difference is the corporation has an HR department and the contractor has an owner answering HR questions between bid reviews.
Building Force Solutions exists to close that gap. Not with binders of policy theory, and not with a Fortune 500 playbook shrunk down to fit. With practical systems, straight answers, and a senior HR leader who picks up the phone.
The name is the point. HR done right is not overhead. It is part of the force that builds the business: stable crews, defensible decisions, and owners who sleep at night.
Trevor Burns
Founder & Fractional HR Leader
The Founder
Trevor Burns
Most construction owners I talk to don’t have an HR problem. They have a “guy” problem. A foreman who won’t document anything. A termination they’ve been putting off for six months. A comp claim that smells wrong. A handbook nobody has opened since it was written.
Then one of those turns into a demand letter, and now it’s an HR problem.
I run Building Force Solutions, a fractional HR firm for construction and trade businesses with 5 to 150 employees. You get a senior HR leader who handles the terminations, documentation, compliance, and hard conversations, without paying for a full-time HR executive you don’t need yet.
I’ve spent 12+ years in the industries you actually operate in: building material suppliers, residential construction, electrical contractors, fabrication shops. Real crews, real turnover, real exposure. Not corporate theory.
My rule is simple: if a policy doesn’t work in the field, it doesn’t work. HR should protect the business and keep crews moving, period.
Credentials I hold: PHR, ASP, OSHA 30.
If there’s a people problem keeping you up at night, or you know your documentation wouldn’t survive a bad week, email trevor@buildingforcesolutions.com. Worst case, you get a straight answer for free.
What that’s looked like
- Walked owners through high-risk terminations, avoiding an estimated $175K+ in litigation exposure.
- Rebuilt hiring and retention for a chronically high-turnover role, saving an estimated $2M+ in hiring, training, and disruption costs.
- Built handbooks, onboarding, safety programs, and discipline processes that hold up when challenged instead of sitting in a drawer.
Operating Principles
How we work
Risk first
The first job is finding what could actually hurt you: misclassification, wage and hour exposure, missing documentation. Fix the expensive problems before polishing anything.
Field reality
Policies are written for people in trucks and on scaffolds, not office cubicles. If a system cannot survive contact with a Monday morning jobsite, it does not ship.
Owner’s seat
Advice comes from the perspective of the person who signs the checks and carries the liability. Practical, cost-aware, and honest about tradeoffs.
Talk to Trevor
Thirty minutes, direct answers, and a clear read on whether fractional HR fits your operation.