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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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The New Normal: Commercial Construction Continues in Unprecedented COVID-19 Times

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We are in uncharted territory, but amid this “new normal” Englewood Construction remains open and committed to serving our clients — while also following guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as industry associations, to ensure the safety and well-being of our employees, subcontractors and project partners.

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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. While bidding on the commercial construction remodel of a 500+ sq. Get online.

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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.

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Construction Law: March 2024

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News Our regular news round up includes a call from insurance companies for pilot projects to find investment models for green infrastructure; failure of another legal challenge to the Stonehenge project; and a warning that the new Building Safety Regulator is looking for a high profile prosecution to make a point.

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Preparing the CDL Driver: What Training Should be Required?

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For over 30 years, the USDOT has tried unsuccessfully to connect training to outcomes to satisfy Congressional and safety advocacy group efforts to require entry level CDL seekers to have a combination of written and behind-the-wheel training as a way to prepare them to drive big rigs or motor coaches. Training Transportation safety'

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Why You Should Understand DBE Laws and Regulations

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The DOT-OIG special agents are called upon to investigate criminal activity for violators of Federal transportation laws, including safety violations, Department policies, and fraud cases. Our four investigative imperatives are transportation safety, grant and procurement fraud, employee integrity, and consumer and workforce fraud.