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Commercial Construction Strategies: Flagship Stores to Footprint Expansion

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These types of commercial construction projects are very important to the growth of their brands and offer many opportunities for our national contracting team to apply our experience and know-how to ensure a successful completion. Working with equipment suppliers ahead of time is key.

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How Trusting Relationships Build Better Commercial Construction Projects

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Englewood Construction is currently negotiating a contract with Mrs. Green’s to convert former Fox and Obel in Chicago. Like most businesses, the commercial construction industry is a relationship business. Here are the top three reasons to work with general commercial construction contractors in a negotiated bidding process.

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Commercial Construction Project Planning: 3 Warning Signs Your Budget Might Go Bust

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Budget is always a major consideration for our commercial construction clients, and as a general contractor we devote significant time to the budgeting process. That’s because in a competitive bid the commercial contractor is only responsible for bidding exactly what is in the plans, not the overall design intent.

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Negotiating Favorable Contracts

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Hammering out the details before breaking ground on commercial construction jobs can prevent headaches for general contractors. Here are some tips for doing so: Own the schedule In any complex job, someone’s going to be late with something, and profits erode every hour that workers, equipment and materials sit idle.

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Commercial Construction Tips: Six Best Practice Resolutions for 2011

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January is a great time to create a commercial construction checklist of resolutions to help improve your commercial real estate business in the coming year. Schedule a commercial construction preventive maintenance visit. On average, preventive maintenance costs are far lower than the cost to replace major equipment.

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2012 Commercial Construction News Review…The Year that Was

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As we welcome in the New Year, it’s customary for us to look back at what the previous year meant to Englewood Construction and the commercial construction industry as a whole. There are still some headwinds out there, but last year brought some interesting commercial construction trends and developments. Bids were up…substantially.

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Lessons from BP: The Ultimate Checklist for Commercial Construction Preventive Maintenance

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Commercial construction preventive maintenance. Granted the explosion and resulting oil spill is a worst case scenario, but it begs the question: Do you have the appropriate commercial construction preventive maintenance checklist in place? For a more detailed preventive maintenance construction punch list you can email me.