Many facilities can be modified and upgraded at a much smaller cost than building a new facility. By following these five steps, you will know in about six weeks whether or not your changes, upgrades and budget are feasible and how it can affect your operations in a positive way.
Pat yourself on the back. You’ve [...]
Sustainable construction and design has many approaches to ensure improved building performance. In this posting, I’ll look into various ways to improve the green footprint of a typical interior remodeling, be it residential or commercial. When it comes to green design and planning, there are many important, though individually small, ways to make a big [...]
I am struggling with motivation today for reasons most of you will understand…some of you won’t. Watching our government last night on C-Span pass that monstrous health care bill under the premise that it will reduce our national debt over the next 10 years just seems crazy to me. I don’t know about you, but I have [...]
Being new to the blogging world, I am both humbled and appreciative at the opportunity given to me by JDR for the nomination of “Best Construction Business” Blog. New to the world of web popularity contests, I wanted to take the opportunity to request that my readers take a minute to vote for my blog by clicking the [...]
In today’s world, it is more cost effective to stay where you are and expand your facility then it is to sell it and buy a new one. Because of this, more firms are staying put and adding on rather than relocating. It is important that if you are one of these companies, you follow [...]
Just what we need, another acronym to throw in with the growing list of alphabet-soup business jargon we deal with on a daily basis. However, where LOL and LMAO may save a few keystrokes, Triple Bottom Line, often referred to as TBL or 3BL will save you money. TBL referrs to three overlapping tenets of this [...]
Well, it is hard to believe that I have been doing this for 8 weeks now and have focused on 7 great companies to this date. This next one is definitely a breed of his own and I believe you will find extremely interesting. He doesn’t perform some run of the mill job or stick [...]
I have seen it all too many times, owners get drawings back from the architect, put it out to bid and then get prices back just to find out that the project is over budget! How frustrating that must be. You pay a reputable architecture firm tens of thousands of dollars to design your building, [...]
A parasite lurks among us. We drive by them all the time and pay them no attention, yet they feed on our valuable resources. Dumpsters. To be exact, the dumpsters you see sitting at every construction site, often full of chunks of concrete, steel scraps, drywall, ect. These left-over materials, while seemingly worthless, still have [...]
Imagine that you are on vacation, sitting on a beach, when your cell phone rings, it’s your office letting you know that your company just had a major fire. Your building is not able to be occupied, your inventory, data and customer files are all lost, and to make the matter worse, it will be [...]
TV and the internet are abuzz with word of the ‘green revolution’, offering advice on ways that each of us can save the world in our own way. While I have no problem with this sentiment, I think it misses an important distinction: whether we should improve our efforts at sustainability because it feels good, [...]
Whether or not you want to believe it, social media has taken a stronghold on our country and companies are using it like mad to brand themselves and market to people of ALL ages. Whether it be through Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, YouTube, Blogging or MySpace; they all have a unique fit within a company or individuals [...]
We all want to save money on homeowners and auto insurance. I am going to tell you how!
So we have run into a few cases lately where we have bid against people for architectural design projects and have not won the bid. We are told after the fact when we presented a breakdown of our proposal that we included more time to prepare the drawings then the other firms which is why [...]
For those of you out there (like me) who never really knew what a blog was nor had any interest in reading a blog, let me pass on some information that I have found out recently. When I first started talking to people about “blogging”, I just thought it was someone sitting there rambling on [...]
This week I am focusing on the Mad Mortgage Machine - also know as Dave Woodson. If you don’t know Dave…wait a minute…there are people who don’t know Dave? Between Facebook, Twitter, his Blogand networking groups or Tweetups, I assumed everyone knew Dave!
Well, in case you don’t I will pass on some information that will definitely be helpful [...]
How many of you have wanted to do some legal research from a reliable source without having to actually talk to an attorney? I can say that I have!
Well, I have finally found the best source for this in northwest Indiana through the NWI Lawyer blog! Here you can find all kinds of pertinent information [...]
I am now going to touch on a subject of which many of us don’t have a true appreciation for due to the lack of knowledge most of us (me included) share on the subject. Many of you are like me and don’t have the ability to truly hear a song for what it is [...]
Some of you may know this and some of you may not – Cambridge has done a lot of work within the solid waste industry over the past 17 years. This work includes – transfer stations, hauling companies, landfill shops and recycling facilities (Solid Waste Portfolio). However, we don’t JUST do new construction design/build projects. [...]
After doing a bit of research and talking to some folks, I have decided to write on Richard Orelup of MU Studios out of Valparaiso. MU Studios is a Web Developer in Valparaiso that is highly professional & cost effective. They focus on solutions to your web design, SEO, content management and E-Commerce needs.
Richard decided to [...]
As 2010 gets started, I wanted to take some time and give some shout-outs to local businesses and professionals in the NWI area. These are all great people that I think you would enjoy knowing as I do.
Part 1 -
Scott Swinford of USCCRA Online
I have gotten to know them through various networking groups and in terms of [...]
Had (have) a Kindle – I thought it was great – one small device – lots of books – When I traveled I didn’t have to make a decision on which to pack. BUT THEN….. The thing started locking up (Coincidently about a month after warranty was up) It kept getting worse until it became [...]
As 2009 comes to a close, Cambridge is looking back at what we think changed in 2009 in our local market of northwest Indiana. The construction landscape has changed quite a bit. We have lost several home builders and a few commercial builders – some legitimate and some fly-by-nights. Pricing has been reduced due to [...]
Why small businesses should be the focus to turn around the economy.
The construction world today has been as hard hit, if not worse than most industries. As in any recession, unless construction activity picks up the economy won’t recover. Historically you can tell when a recession or slow economy is coming to an end by how much commercial, residential and industrial construction is going on. I [...]
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