01 / The Founding Story
A question asked by a U.S. construction manager.
A former project manager in the United States was staffing a demanding industrial expansion and needed an experienced technical field engineer. He reached out to Javier Buelvas, who had already managed complex multidiscipline industrial projects alongside him on past work.
When he learned Javier had returned to his home base in Colombia, the conversation nearly stopped — there was no administrative mechanism to hire foreign expatriates to site. Then he asked the question that created this company:
"Couldn't you do this from Colombia?"
It turned out that almost every deliverable that bottlenecks a superintendent or frustrates a project controls manager doesn't require boots on the site. It requires experienced engineers who understand construction, work inside the contractor's platforms, and operate during the same business day. That first scope was executed through RP Construcciones y Equipos SAS — an established Colombian contractor with the engineering personnel and process control the work required. TSC was founded to institutionalize that answer.