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Successful Commercial Construction Strategies and Operations: Tip #1

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How would you like to “find” thousands of dollars in your operating budget? How did you file the documents for your last commercial construction project? If so, you probably put those documents in a banker’s box or two and then stored them in your office. Or maybe you paid to have the documents stored in a warehouse.

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4 distribution center projects that changed The Korte Company forever

The Korte Company

Dennis called up to Walgreens’ home office in Deerfield, Illinois, near Chicago. He furnished the phone number of the Walgreens project manager in charge. The project bids in seven days.”. He invited the project manager to talk to a man at a new United Stationers facility just a few miles from Walgreens headquarters.

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Susan Bowman sets the example

The Korte Company

She’d graduated with an accounting degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, worked at a Big 8 public accounting firm, passed the CPA exam and learned the ins and outs of construction accounting at Pepper Construction in Chicago. Meanwhile, Rob’s hometown of Chicago was a great place to launch their careers. They didn’t.

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Lean Perspectives: Skender Construction’s thoughtful blog

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Skender Construction’s Lean Perspectives blog truly advocates effectively for Lean Construction — and demonstrates the Chicago contractor’s leadership in this integrated project management and delivery model. If the owner would like to make changes, we know how long they have until it will impact their budget.

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The Reasons BIM is Going Nowhere Fast

Building Information Management

budgets, insurance and tax incentives) to help finance sustainable life-cycle performance for buildings and related infrastructure. 4Clicks.com – Premier software for cost estimating and efficient project delivery – Job Order Contracting – JOC, SABER, IDIQ, MATOC, SATOC, MACC, POCA, BOA, etc.

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Dennis Calvert, the right architect for Design-Build

The Korte Company

In the mid-1970s, Ralph Korte came to FGM with a potential project. The Martha Manning Company in Collinsville, Illinois wanted to build a 100,000-square-foot dress factory—with a budget of $10 per square foot. . It was a “seemingly impossible” budget; closer to $15 or $18 a square foot would have been more realistic.

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The Reasons BIM is Going Nowhere Fast

Building Information Management

budgets, insurance and tax incentives) to help finance sustainable life-cycle performance for buildings and related infrastructure. 4Clicks.com – Premier software for cost estimating and efficient project delivery – Job Order Contracting – JOC, SABER, IDIQ, MATOC, SATOC, MACC, POCA, BOA, etc.

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