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 [...]
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 [...]
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