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LEED Commercial Interiors can Save the Planet

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LEED Commercial Interiors projects present the best single opportunity for greening buildings. million existing commercial buildings in the United States today. million existing commercial buildings. greater than 80% exist in rented space within those existing commercial buildings. By Katie Stanford and Stuart Kaplow.

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions. RELATED ARTICLE: About 11% of U.S. million units.

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Converting downtown office into multifamily residential: Let’s stop and think about this

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Converting downtown office into multifamily residential: Let’s stop and think about this 0 dbarista Tue, 07/11/2023 - 10:44 Multifamily Housing Is the office-to-residential conversion really what’s best for our downtowns from a cultural, urban, economic perspective? Is conversion from office to multifamily really a good idea?

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Prepping For Reentry: 8 Facility Maintenance Steps For Reopening Commercial Properties

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A version of this post was published in Illinois Real Estate Journal as a bylined article from Englewood Construction. According to Englewood Construction, prepping commercial facilities to reopen should include reviewing mechanical systems and rescheduling missed preventative maintenance appointments (*photo taken pre-pandemic).

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How to Decrease Commercial Construction Costs by Reusing the Right Items

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Recently, our director of operations Chuck Taylor was featured in a Chicago Tribune article based on the reporter’s curiosity about a hotel peephole he kept in his office. When working on a commercial construction retrofit , you never know what items you may come across. More specifically it was from the room where O.J.

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How Can You Get More Commercial Painting Leads?

A David Creation

A painting company starts out with a residential focus, and then begins to look for more commercial leads as their team and capabilities grow. 1: Add a Strong Commercial Emphasis To Your Website. There are sites that look residential, and then there are sites that just ooze commercial painting capability. Who could blame you?

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Trends in Construction: 3 Ways Technology is Changing Commercial Construction

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The use of technology and apps for daily construction reporting, sharing photos and scheduling look-aheads has become common practice on today’s commercial construction job sites. In those days, if someone needed you while you were on a job site or at a meeting, they paged you and you ran to the nearest pay phone to return the call.