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Are Your Hotel General Contractors Checked In or Out?

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Englewood completed renovations to guests rooms and the main restaurant as well as created a fitness and wellness center above the main ball room of the famed Drake Hotel in Chicago. This is mainly because tourism numbers are improving and hotels are seeing a strong increase in profitability. markets that it tracks. We’ve done it all.

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Job Order Contracts Require Owner Direct Management and Leadership

Job Order Contracting

Unified $855,000 from Chicago-based F.H. Paschen not only had earned more profit than its contract allowed but also had charged for more equipment than it installed. They had to agree to follow a catalog that set prices and and a set amount of markup or profit. This month, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded L.A.

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PSMJ Resources Inc. Announces 2011 Circle of Excellence

PSMJ Resources

the premier management consulting firm for the A/E/C (architecture/engineering/construction) industries, published its annual PSMJ Circle of Excellence for 2011 on wednesday. The PSMJ Circle of Excellence is not determined by firm revenue, profitability, staff growth, or sheer size – nor is it determined by any subjective criteria.

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PSMJ Resources Blog: PSMJ Resources Inc. Announces 2011.

PSMJ Resources

Announces 2011 Award Winners at Breakthrough 2012 Conference in Chicago. the premier management consulting firm for the A/E/C (architecture/engineering/construction) industries, distributed its annual PSMJ Circle of Excellence and Premier Award for Client Satisfaction Awards for 2011. GBBN Architects Geosyntec Consultants, Inc.

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Good Trouble—Necessary for Home Builders, Too

Pro Builder

These events, sometimes drawing tens of thousands, continued until the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, but were memorialized during the August 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago in an epic battle between thousands of protesters and Mayor Richard Daley’s police force. . I was one of those consultants. .

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Are There Lessons From the Great Recession for the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Pro Builder

Pro Builder asked home builders and industry consultants about what lessons they learned and strategies they used to survive the Great Recession and how those apply in the current situation. Is it profitable? When consultant Mark Hodges was working with K. and what that reality will look like. .

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constructionattorneyblog: Architect can't profit from wrongful conduct

Construction Lawyer

Werner Sabo is a partner at the construction law firm of Sabo & Zahn in Chicago. He is a member various professional organizations, has been an officer and director of the Chicago Chapter AIA, President of the Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute, and writes a regular construction law column for The Construction Specifier.