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First Modern Wooden Office Building Planned for Chicago

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Division Street in Chicago. The building would be similar to the seven-story T3 office building finished in 2016 in Minneapolis which was built using engineered wood with each floor separated by a concrete layer. Houston-based Hines Interests is seeking zoning approval for its new project at 1017 W.

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The Ultimate Office Design Build Case Study – Us!

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So it is with great pride that I announce the completion of our most successful Chicago design build office construction job to date – the new headquarters of Englewood Construction! for what we considered the ultimate office tenant renovation project. The work stations from our old office were fine, so we re-used those.

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Timelapse Shows 8-Hour Concrete Pour on Chicago Building

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Crews from Chicago’s Clark Construction used three mobile pumps to pour 3,300 cubic yards of concrete into the foundation mat of a new office building. A timelapse video showing the full concrete pour was posted on Clark Construction’s Twitter. Starting before sunrise, the crew finished the job in…

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Commercial Construction Checklist on Beating the Next Chicago Blizzard

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The Chicago blizzard of 2011 is a story we’ll be talking about for generations. 3, 2011, that didn’t mean the best Chicago contractors weren’t working. Would office or shopping center parking lots be cleared in time so delivery trucks, customers and employees could use them the next day? Same with brick and mortar.

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How to Decrease Commercial Construction Costs by Reusing the Right Items

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When converting a grocery story into the new headquarters of Englewood Construction, many existing materials were reused, including this concrete floor, which received a face lift with a new stain. What made this peephole so interesting was that it was salvaged from the hotel construction renovation we did of a HoJo in Chicago.

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CRE Construction Project Site Selection: 3 Tips for Finding the Perfect Match

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Case in point, a developer once asked us to price out a retail-to-restaurant conversion on the first floor of a Chicago high rise. We recently collaborated with a rock climbing gym to evaluate an old 8th-floor food court in a Michigan Avenue building in downtown Chicago.

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Retail Flagship Store Construction Projects: Challenges and Considerations

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Likewise, flagship stores in city locations often entail construction in mixed-use buildings, such as Rockefeller Plaza in New York or Water Tower Place in Chicago (where we built out American Girl’s Chicago flagship store as well as the Harry Caray’s 7th Inning Stretch restaurant and Chicago Sports Museum).

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