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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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