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Are Your Hotel General Contractors Checked In or Out?

HardHatChat

As the summer approaches and schools across the country will be taking an extended break, the busiest travel season of the year will begin. Smith Travel Research reports that U.S. Nationally, real spending on travel and tourism turned up in the fourth quarter of 2012, increasing at an annual rate of 1.8 percent in 2013.

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Renovating El Cortez: the neon jewel of Fremont Street

The Korte Company

The hotel is also a shapeshifter, with countless remodels, renovations and additions speckling its 80-year run on East Fremont Street downtown. Our plan was to work methodically, remodeling the tower two or three floors at a time, moving from the top down. Built in 1941, it’s got its fair share of ghost stories. And we got to work.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Jonathan Wheeler, Project Manager, Fullmer Construction

Autodesk Construction Cloud

I worked on a full tenant improvement project as a remodeled build-out for Kawasaki Motors in Irvine. The most significant challenge that technology helps to overcome is the speed at which communication travels. Just looking at the industry in the future, it’s also important to consider how quickly communication needs to travel.

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Gary Korte: Experience is the best teacher

The Korte Company

Other times, it’s working with the project manager to shuffle different phases of the schedule around and stay on track. Other times, he pitched in with his dad’s jobs, like remodeling his grandparents’ house, or building the altars for church. It’s all travel, but it’s a different kind of travel than I’m used to.

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Leading the Home Building Industry: Pro Builder's 2021 Forty Under 40

Pro Builder

Off the Clock • Working out • Traveling • Crushing it as a single mom with a full-time career. Grew from small carpentry jobs to room remodels, whole-house remodeling, entry-level townhome construction, and then, ultimately, upscale custom homes. Off the Clock • Spending time with family • Golf • Cooking • Travel .

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Tom Lyerla, the standard bearer

The Korte Company

He helped his father update the painting, remodel the siding and perform electrical work at their Collinsville, Illinois home. “My And when Ralph and Vern asked Tom if he’d consider traveling, Tom responded, “That’s fine with me.”. Right on schedule, Glen and the band performed in the new venue on June 4. Learning to lead.

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Variations on the one-legged sales call: Can you control the story?

Construction Marketing Ideas

You travel some distance for a meeting with prospective clients, only to find that all the decision-makers aren’t there (or worse, no one in the room really has any authority to conclude the transaction.). It’s a classic problem, especially for residential sales, but variations exist in the ICI market.