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American Girl’s New York City Flagship Store: An Englewood Construction Retail Showcase

HardHatChat

In fact, our most recent project with American Girl was in New York City, not too far from the lights of Broadway – a new 38,000-square-foot American Girl Place flagship store at 75 Rockefeller Plaza. As such, we carefully scheduled other work around them. The Low-Down on the Lower Level. Guys and Dolls.

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Top Railway Projects in the US

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Data cited by Amtrak indicates that 75% of US consumers believe we should shift more trips to passenger rail to reduce transportation’s impact on climate change. New York East Side Access. It will operate on closed tracks and will be fully dedicated to transporting passengers.

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Commercial Construction Project Planning: 3 Warning Signs Your Budget Might Go Bust

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Bringing the general contractor on board early, as American Girl did with Englewood for the retailer’s new flagship store in New York City, is key in creating an accurate construction budget. It’s well-worth the investment when it boils down to giving us the information we need to create an accurate budget.

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State of the Construction Industry: April Roundup

Viewpoint Construction Technology

AI has the potential to help with challenges like schedule overruns and safety concerns. For example, project schedule optimizers using AI could consider all the possibilities for project delivery and timelines. BIM will help coordinate the project’s complex schedules and budgets so it’s completed in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

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Viewpoint: The Case for Neutral, Third-Party Schedulers | ENR.

ENR Construction

Transportation. Survey Schedule. ENR New York. Viewpoint: The Case for Neutral, Third-Party Schedulers. I was recently asked to participate in a debate on scheduling specifications at Stanford University. Contractors routinely ignore scheduling specifications and their own CPM schedules.

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Protecting bridges in extreme climates

GCP Applied Technologies

Extremes in cold, heat and even humidity are another factor in bridge construction and renovation — often throwing project schedules off course. This can lead to lost productivity, delays to construction schedules and revenue loss. Transportation Infrastructure. Protecting an iconic bridge. Protecting an iconic bridge.

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Protecting long-span bridges

GCP Applied Technologies

One way to do so is with the right waterproofing system, as was the case with the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City. . The general contractor, Tutor Perini, had a challenging construction schedule in one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Transportation Infrastructure. Bridge Deck Waterproofing.