Construction Superintendent Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2016

CHICAGO, Ill. According to JLL’s latest report on United States construction activity, construction spending in 2016 has continued to hit cyclical highs, reaching $317 billion in the third quarter, a one percent growth increase year-over-year. Materials costs have reached a 2.2

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Last November, theMART in Chicago, whose 4.2 The Center for Active Design, which launched its Fitwel wellness certification program in May 2016, developed the scorecard based on the interest of Vornado Realty Trust, theMART’s owner and manager, in impacting the entire building rather than just its owner-occupied areas.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Last November, theMART in Chicago, whose 4.2 The Center for Active Design, which launched its Fitwel wellness certification program in May 2016, developed the scorecard based on the interest of Vornado Realty Trust, theMART’s owner and manager, in impacting the entire building rather than just its owner-occupied areas.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MAY 4, 2016

More than 700 new jobs have been created by 16 tech companies in Chicago recently, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced as he helped open the newly-completed expansion space at 1871 , the city’s first-of-its-kind digital startup hub. According to Built In Chicago, 143 companies raised more than $1.7 Source: 1871).

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Since 2016, nearly 100,000 man-hours have been invested in the Old Chicago Main Post Office to prep the building and the site for its planned redevelopment. 200 construction workers from 27 construction-related firms have been on site and removed an estimated 20 million pounds of debris.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JUNE 1, 2016

Kearney Global Cities 2016 report. The Global Cities 2016 includes the Global Cities Index and the Global Cities Outlook. ” Beyond New York and London, the Global Elite includes Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco, Boston, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, and Melbourne. GlobalElite.

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Construction Dive

APRIL 14, 2016

The Project Management College of Scheduling (PMCOS), an organization whose roots go back to 2003 when the organization was first formed under the auspices of the Project Management Institute, has announced its annual conference to be held in Chicago May 15-18. Click here for details.

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Pro Builder

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The personal finance site compared median household incomes to rent from 2016 to 2019, while including how the pandemic has affected rent prices, to find the cities with the greatest changes in rent affordability. The top five cities where rent has changed the most from 2016 to 2019 are Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, DC, and Baltimore.

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Pro Builder

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Sunbelt metro areas topped the list for net inbound moves in 2021, pulling in buyers from more expensive cities like Los Angeles and Chicago. Before the pandemic, people tended to move to ZIP codes with very similar average prices: the average ZIP-level price change was a decrease of less than $7,500 in each year from 2016 to 2019.

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BD+C

DECEMBER 22, 2014

real-estate investment by The Wanda Group, owned by China’s richest man, will be an 88-story, 1,148-ft-tall mixed-use tower, the third-tallest in Chicago, which Wanda Group selected over New York and Los Angeles. Groundbreaking is scheduled for 2016. The first U.S. Body Image: read more.

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BD+C

JANUARY 25, 2018

During the 10 years between 2006 and 2016, almost a quarter of the 100 largest cities in the United States shifted from owner- to renter-majority. 22 cities total made the shift, including key markets like Chicago, San Diego, Detroit, Austin, and Sacramento.

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BD+C

APRIL 24, 2018

Elmhurst, a suburb west of Chicago, addressed this challenge with a plan to boost its downtown in 2016. For suburban cities looking to attract multifamily development to their downtowns , finding ways to make those areas vibrant throughout the day and into the night is critical.

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BD+C

MARCH 8, 2017

In early 2016, Clayco, the Chicago-based design-build contractor, launched Uplift Data Partners, a full-service provider of drone technology and remote pilot training. The eight “mission” types that Uplift flies include construction and thermal inspection, as well as real estate surveying and mapping.

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Site Plans Chicago Inspections 80

Contractor Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Preparations are already underway for the 2016 International Emerging Technology Symposium, to be held in May 2016 in the Chicago area. Plumbing Technology'

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Contractor Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2016

The Plumbing Contractors Association (PCA) Midwest will honor three outstanding individuals who have shown a great deal of personal commitment, ingenuity and passion to improve the plumbing industry. read more.

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Contractor Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Preparations are already underway for the 2016 International Emerging Technology Symposium (IETS), to be held in May 2016 in the Chicago area. Green Plumbing Technology'

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Construction Equipment

MARCH 8, 2016

Sponsored by Chicago Women in Trades and North America’s Building Trades Unions, the April 29 - May 1, 2016 event will be held at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Conference Center, Rosemont, Illinois near O'Hare.

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BD+C

AUGUST 16, 2016

That’s the idea behind the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA) Educators Summit which took place last week at our Chicago office.

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Construction Equipment

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Less than three weeks after being cited for exposing workers to unsafe trenches, federal investigators saw a Chicago plumbing contractor, Og Plumbing, exposing the same four-man crew to trenching hazards as they worked on sewer and water utilities at two locations in Oak Park on consecutive days in March 2016.

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HardHatChat

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Low – Chicago losing the 2016 Olympic bid. When Chicago lost the 2016 Olympic bid this fall, it was a devastating blow to the city’s restaurant and retail construction industry. Our industry is just at the tip of the iceberg in better green building and business practices.

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Construction Equipment

MARCH 9, 2016

The 2016 event will be held April 18 - 20 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel in Rosemont, Illinois. The AEM product safety seminar is developed specifically by and for equipment manufacturers as an industry forum to discuss critical issues involved in the design, manufacture and use of their products.

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Construction Superintendent Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

CHICAGO, Ill. – Growth is predicted to reach 8 percent in 2016 reaching $1.14. A market study released by the Metal Construction Association reports that 2017 will be the year the nonresidential construction industry will return to the peak levels last seen in 2007.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MAY 25, 2016

By Jonathan Sanders From the March/April 2016 Issue. A Massachusetts food processor is opening a factory in northwest suburban Wheeling, bringing more than 125 new jobs to the state, according to a report in Crain’s Chicago Business. PIZZA MAKER PLANS WHEELING PLANT. Palatine Road. Bruce Rauner, U.S.

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Construction Specifier

APRIL 17, 2020

Initiatives are now under way in Chicago and Washington, D.C. In 2016, ABC identified a proprietary channel glass from a New York City-based manufacturer as bird-friendly, making it the first 3D (U-shaped/channel) glass to receive Bird-smart certification (Figure 1).

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Construction Marketing Ideas

MARCH 10, 2016

Tom Reber’s Motorhard blog is a worthy contender for the 2016 Best Construction Blog competition with solid content and a human touch. Tom Reber’s Motorhard.com undoubtedly deserves its status as a serious contender for the 2016 Best Construction Blog. He did this, he says, through a truly solid client experience process.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MAY 10, 2016

Construction on the new distribution center is set to begin this month and Batory Foods is expected to take occupancy of the new space by October 2016. Located in Will County, less than 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, RidgePort Logistics Center is a developing 14 million-square-foot rail-served park situated on more than 1,500 acres.

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Illinois Chicago Site Security 40

HardHatChat

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Here’s what stood out to me: Englewood’s retail portfolio includes experiential concepts such as American Girl Place in Chicago. In 2016, Hard Hat Chat discussed how to keep residents happy during a senior housing renovation.

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Business Facilities

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

L ast year, Chicago celebrated the highly anticipated grand opening of the new UI Labs Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) on Goose Island. Last year’s groundbreaking on the project was an exciting one for Goose Island, which is quickly becoming known as an important tech hub within Chicago.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 1,400 points in just the first two weeks of 2016, but that volatility appears to be avoiding the commercial real estate industry, especially when it comes to cross-border investment in the United States, according to JLL’s U.S. Credit: LifesizeImages. Some key takeaways: $11.2

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Construction Knowledge

DECEMBER 3, 2012

The Walsh Group from Chicago, IL won both competitions. That price was 23% lower than the estimate and the completion date of October 2016 was eight months ahead of the conceptual schedule. Then they interviewed and short-listed four firms to prepare more detailed designs, with bid costs and schedules.

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Business Facilities

JULY 8, 2016

An IndustryWeek profile recently highlighted the extraordinary success in Elk Grove Village, IL, which is a stone’s throw from one of the nation’s busiest airports, Chicago’s O’Hare. percent in the second quarter of 2016. Elk Grove Village is home to one of the largest industrial parks in the U.S.,

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Without stable shelter, it all falls apart,” Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist Matthew Desmond told the Chicago Tribune on publication of his book Evicted. Housing is Fundamental “Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Affordable housing is housing built for people who earn 80% or less of the area median income (AMI).

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JUNE 28, 2016

Transpoint Intermodal’s Fort Wayne operation will be part of a global system specializing in moving containers to and from the Far East through Chicago, resulting in savings for customers. The Fort Wayne City Council approved a tax phase-in (abatement) for Transpoint on June 7, 2016. Source: [link].

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 12, 2016

By Business Facilities Editorial Staff From the March/April 2016 Issue. Our 2016 awards include recognition for the locations that have led the way in smart-grid modernization, innovative funding for infrastructure projects, renewable energy breakthroughs and new tools for supporting startups and entrepreneurs.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

APRIL 2, 2016

An image from the 2016 MSL show. Much has changed. Back in 1989, it was a big deal (and a big expense) to produce colour images. We needed to send our film (yes, old-fashioned film) to a service bureau to have colour separations produced, at a cost of $150 or more each.

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North Carolina IDEA News Chicago 48

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

And even though major metros such as Chicago, New York and Philadelphia all added more than 30,000 new jobs from 2014 to 2015, they trailed national growth trends.” 2016 McDonald Hopkins Business Outlook Survey Results. US: Wage inflation surprised on the upside as employment growth slowed somewhat. LeastCompetitiveMSAs.

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Business Facilities

OCTOBER 11, 2017

CHICAGO AIMS FOR THE TOP OF THE TECH CHART. Chicago is rising up in ranks to become the next big place for technology innovation. Chicago’s Digital Manufacturing and Design Institute (DMDII), has partnered with McKinsey & Co. Chicago’s Digital Manufacturing and Design Institute (DMDII), has partnered with McKinsey & Co.

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