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Flagship Store Retail Construction: 3 Reasons Brands Still Build in a Flagship Location

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Apple’s first flagship store was in Chicago on Michigan Avenue, where tourists and locals alike quickly became familiar with – and grew to love – the unique environment it offered to interact with the brand’s latest products. Our very first project with the brand was to relocate its original Chicago flagship store to Michigan Avenue in 2008.

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Achieving Safer School Design with Secure Entry Vestibules

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The PASS K-12 guidelines take a holistic approach, advocating for the inclusion of multiple layers of security to improve safer school design. For each layer, the guidelines classify recommendations on a tiered system, with tier 1 establishing a baseline of security and tier 4 representing the highest level of security possible.

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Building Perimeters are Only One Layer in Safe School Design

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Requiring bullet- or forced-entry-resistant materials in exterior doors and windows aligns with the Partner Alliance for Safer School (PASS) K-12 guidelines for the Building Perimeter Layer of a school security plan. Using such glazing can complement a hardened building envelope by providing another layer of defense.

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Supply Chain Issues Force Builders to Find Alternative Materials

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Uncertainty about the availability of materials is complicating business for construction companies as they try to price out bids and meet project guidelines. Skender and its clients considered fiberglass insulation as a substitute.

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Construction Worker Safety Issues: Weighing in on Silica Standards

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A great example of the latter happened a few weeks ago, when I received a call from a Chicago Tribune reporter. The EC team in action at the American Girl Place in the Mall of America. The day after the story published, I received a call from a staff member at the Department of Labor (DOL) who had read the Tribune story.

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

By selectively bundling existing sustainable and regenerative guidelines with RELi’s groundbreaking credits for emergency preparedness, adaptation, and community vitality, RELi 2.0 And New York, the largest city in North America, tackled resilience with the NYC Climate Resilience Design Guidelines v2.0 Of note, RELi 2.0

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

By selectively bundling existing sustainable and regenerative guidelines with RELi’s groundbreaking credits for emergency preparedness, adaptation, and community vitality, RELi 2.0 And New York, the largest city in North America, tackled resilience with the NYC Climate Resilience Design Guidelines v2.0 Of note, RELi 2.0