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Commercial Construction Trends: The Highs and Lows of 2016

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Here’s a look at our top 2016 commercial construction “highs” and “lows”: Low: Mall Retail Tenants Choose Local over National. However, over the last year, we’ve seen more retail brands award tenant build-out work to local firms rather than national construction partners. High: Big Opportunities in Big Box Retail.

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Housing’s Great Rethink: Workforce Development Takes Center Stage

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These exits weren’t just about compensation, either. Lower-paying jobs in the retail, food service, and hospitality sectors also were roundly rejected or, in the aftermath of the pandemic, rarely reconsidered. He called for an all-hands, industrywide effort to bolster training, compensation, diversity, and productivity.

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Top 6 Reasons to Become a Certified Construction Marketing Professional (CCMP)

Construction Marketing

In addition to teaching the basic practices of marketing, our examination will ensure that you know how to market for your specialty: marketing to architectural, engineering or construction (A/E/C), dealer marketing, even marketing to retail home improvement. Certifications Look Great on a Resume, Look Better to Your Boss.

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Updated Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is Published But.

Green Building Law Update

Liability from old dry cleaners in retail sites that are beyond the boundaries of the “subject property” (. While many consultants already considered prior retail uses, including on adjoining sites, adding certainty will result in consistency, but also increase the costs for a 2021 version Phase I Environmental Site Assessment.

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Phase l Assessments for Tenants are the Hottest Environmental Issue in 2020

Green Building Law Update

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA, commonly referred to as Superfund), 42 U.S.C. Buried in the more than 800 page Consolidated Appropriations Act signed on March 23, 2018 was Division N, the ‘‘Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development Act of 2018’’ (the BUILD Act).

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Importance of Self-leveling Overlays in concrete construction

Construction Cost Estimating

Self-leveling overlays are normally used in commercial building lobbies and corridors, retail spaces, residential floors, restaurants, and warehouse floors. Self-leveling overlay products are susceptible to atmosphere conditions. Due to this, most applications are kept in controlled indoor environments.

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Amazon To Open Fourth Maryland Fulfillment Center

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The online retailer currently employs more than 5,000 associates at its sortation and fulfillment centers in Baltimore and fulfillment center in North East, MD. Amazon.com, Inc. plans to open its fourth Maryland fulfillment facility in Baltimore’s Sparrows Point. Credit: Amazon.com, Inc.).