Commercial and Residential Construction Inc. (also known as CRC) is a new company that was started by S.R. Murthy Vamaraju in 2019. Murthy has over 40 years of hands-on experience in the design and building phases of construction.
Murthy became exposed to the field of construction when he was having his first home built in Lima, Ohio. As he watched his own home being built, he realized there could be many ways to build homes more energy efficiently and less expensively. Soon after, he started his career in construction with building houses. After building many luxury custom homes over several years, he expanded into the building of full-service hotels, motels, community centers, restaurants, shopping plazas and subdivisions.
Murthy has built commercial and residential properties (as a general contractor or construction manager or as an owner) in the following states: Missouri, Illinois, Texas, Tennessee, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and California. Murthy has built about 50 motels under different franchises such as Marriott, Holiday Inn Express, Howard Johnson, Best Western, Comfort Inn, Ramada, Hampton Inn, Sleep Inn, Quality Inn, Microtel, Travelodge, Days Inn, Wingate, Hawthorne Suites, Four-Points Sheraton, Fairfield Inn, etc.
Prior to working in construction, Murthy worked as an engineer for General Electric, General Motors and others.
Shirley Desai, MBA, the sales and operations manager for CRC, is also a licensed general contractor. She brings her vast business knowledge, experience, and design sense to the management of projects. Previously Shirley has worked for some leading Fortune 100 companies including FedEx, Abbott Laboratories and Intel Corporation in marketing and technology. Her focus is on helping clients build a very high quality, building structure for a given budget.