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Incorporating “green” principles in your design and keeping it affordable

Incorporating “green” principles in your design and keeping it affordable

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, [...]

NWI Small Business Series – Part 7

NWI Small Business Series – Part 7

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 [...]

How important is the quality of your architectural drawings?

How important is the quality of your architectural drawings?

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 [...]

What is the purpose of a blog?

What is the purpose of a blog?

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 [...]

NWI small business series – partie quatre

NWI small business series – partie quatre

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 [...]

Small Business Series for NWI – partie trois

Small Business Series for NWI – partie trois

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 [...]

Garbage stinks?  Not to me!

Garbage stinks? Not to me!

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.  [...]

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