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Understanding Today’s Separation of Landlord and Commercial Tenant Construction

HardHatChat

First, let’s have a refresher on the most common types of available retail space in Chicago shopping centers — actually, the terms below work for all new commercial construction projects. There is nothing on the perimeter studs or deck (underside of roof), no HVAC or ductwork, sprinklers are basic and the flooring is probably concrete.

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Guide to Top 2022-23 Construction Conferences & Events

Autodesk Construction Cloud

One of the biggest draws of the AED Summit is its specialized learning tracks which are segmented for leadership, management, product, sales, and more. World of Concrete (Las Vegas, NV). CMAA Focus (Chicago, IL). CMAA Focus 2022 will take place at the Renaissance Chicago in Downtown Chicago. Get more details.

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3 affordable housing projects that serve as social catalysts

BD+C

Without stable shelter, it all falls apart,” Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist Matthew Desmond told the Chicago Tribune on publication of his book Evicted. Developers also paid for a new 20,000-sf public park to replace a decrepit concrete one that had been on Second Avenue in what’s effectively the school’s front yard.”

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How Darlene Rutkowski-Hanks pulls it all together

The Korte Company

And she’d pushed a desk next to his so that she could draw with circle and door templates. By then, she knew how to do everything from digging concrete footings to handling framing and trim work. At the time, the Illinois architecture licensure exam happened just once a year in Chicago, and it spanned four days.

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Fall Conferences 2019: Top Takeaways

Stok

First consider your river of thinking, which he demonstrated by asking the entire audience to draw a house, only to be greeted by a sea of the classic two-window, one-door triangle roof house. Start-ups with technologies to do just that and sequester or reuse carbon dioxide are proliferating, drawing the attentions of VCs and other investors.