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Retail Construction: 3 Construction Cost-Savings Tips for De-malling a Shopping Mall

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For those familiar with Chicago retail construction , think back a couple of years to when the dated Orland Park Place interior mall underwent construction and turned itself inside out to became one of the area’s most successful outdoor shopping centers. Hire a design-build general contractor.

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Measurement Fails in Business, Part II: Real-World Examples and Solutions

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Steel’s South Chicago Works, the world’s largest structural steel mill at the time, employing 20,000 workers. But those running the big picture in Pittsburgh never had a clue what was really going on in Chicago, yet they managed the mill using our manipulated numbers. Final inspection? Measurement Fails, Part I. Close of escrow?

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BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management

Building Information Management

Analytical comparisons of the two techniques are then presented in section V as discussion. LCC enables a practical economic comparison of the alternatives, in terms of both the present and future costs. Chicago: Institute of Real Estate Management. 1994), Preconstruction Estimating: Budget through Bid. 15th Edition.