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Commercial Construction Project Management Trends: How to Survive the Incredible Shrinking Timeline

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One of the biggest challenges for commercial construction firms today is the tighter project timelines that have become the norm at every phase of a project – from shorter deadlines for submitting initial bids and budgets, to quicker resolution on addendums and change orders, to compressed schedules for construction and delivery.

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Commercial Construction Tips: Six Best Practice Resolutions for 2011

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Schedule a commercial construction preventive maintenance visit. I’m sure the retailer was also surprised. If the client needed a hospital or condo building on top of the retail it would make sense, but 500 sq. I won’t name names, but call me and WE can discuss it over a Dr. PEPPER. Bring your GC in early. Take a leap of faith.

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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. We would send those drawings to a printer to copy enough sets to distribute to all the trade partners we were asking to bid the project – often 50 or 60 copies.

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How Working with a Design-Build Construction Firm Can Boost the Bottom Line

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An architect may dream up an architecturally significant commercial construction project, but once a commercial general contractor takes a look at the drawings and the proposed site, a different reality may have to be addressed. Relationships on a project count for a lot. Financial savings. Less responsibility for owners. Bill Di Santo.

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How Much is Poor Construction Document Management Costing You? 

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A large number of rework requests are generated due to a lack of version control on drawings and plans. When the workers assembling the structure are working from an old set of plans that don’t reflect the latest change orders, rework is practically inevitable. trillion in 2020.

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Autodesk Build Powers Success for Tetris across an International Design and Build Business

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Tétris specialises in turnkey solutions for corporate clients, managing the design and build of inspiring, functional, and sustainable offices, retail and hospitality spaces. We used email and other tools for drawings, RFIs, approvals and other issues. Founded in France in 2003, the company was acquired by JLL Group in 2007.

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Architects on the Jobsite

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His first jobs were high end retail design projects. In the event of any dispute, it is almost always this evaluation that forms the basis for later litigation or for approval of change orders or overtime. But I did ask questions and get answers that helped me gain a better understanding of the process.

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