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How to Win the Olympics of International Retail Construction

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While most of us will accept delayed Olympic news due to the time zone difference, the same isn’t true when working with international brands and new retail construction. The other year we were building a handful of stateside stores for Michael Hill, a New Zealand-based jewelry retailer, which is 16 hours ahead of Chicago.

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The Commercial Construction Checklist to Successful International Retail Projects. Bon Chance!

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Marcello’s Market and Deli from Canada is the latest international retailer to work with Englewood Construction. Lately, we seem to be working on more and more new retail construction projects from international retailers. retailers want. Time zones. Not surprisingly, that’s the same thing U.S. Language barrier.

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Design and specification considerations: Stand-alone canopy structure systems

Construction Specifier

Freestanding canopy systems can be specified for numerous project applications, fabricated with a choice of materials, and engineered to meet a range of performance requirements. For a stand-alone canopy’s structural columns, steel is the material of choice for its variety of reliable performance characteristics. By Kevin Smith.

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Expanding the exterior footprint

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In fact, officials of New York City are beginning to re-examine its zoning to ensure green spaces and parks are accessible and equitably distributed throughout the urban landscape. It also creates a new building zone called the ‘mid-doors,’ a term coined recently by Transsolar’s Erik Olsen, in his series “What is Indoors?”

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The next phase of sustainability in luxury hotels

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We’re seeing a lot of repurposed assets that are underutilized or not in high demand, such as department stores or retail centers, being converted to hotels or mixed-use developments. This reduces the need for building demolition and the amount of waste produced in building construction.”

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Construction Cost Estimating Blog: TRAKware provides end to end.

Construction Cost Estimating

TRAKware can resolve particular issues and generate an incorporated, powerful, consistent and time-tested solution scalable to any size custom metal fabricator. TRAKware plays a proactive role for midstream corrections when necessary for fabricators. Warehouse/inventory/material management. Material Estimate Sheets.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

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A lot of care went into the finishes and the colors and the materials that convey that this is quality housing and not ‘affordable housing.’” That meant proximity to transit, jobs, schools, retail, public access to parks and recreation, and other social infrastructure.

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