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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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Commercial Construction Strategies: Adaptive Reuse for Big Box Retail

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With a number of traditional retailers closing locations or going out of business, they are leaving millions of square feet behind for redevelopment. Our first experience with this was turning an old Kmart into a mixed-use retail development. This adaptive reuse trend is now extending to abandoned big-box buildings.

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How to Decrease Commercial Construction Costs by Reusing the Right Items

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When working on a commercial construction retrofit , you never know what items you may come across. to be more centrally located to our staff and Chicago commercial construction projects. The best commercial general contractors can find the right HVAC team to do that job. More specifically it was from the room where O.J.

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Commercial Construction Checklist for Retrofitting a Shopping Center in Today’s Climate

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It’s a mixed bag of commercial construction news for shopping center developement. On one hand, retail sales continue to show improvement from last year, yet the suburban shopping mall – or at least the traditional enclosed shopping mall – seems to be on the way out. Most retailers today want less space.

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Why Commercial Facility Maintenance Is Your Best Insurance Policy

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Being a national commercial construction general contractor can be an immensely rewarding profession. There is always a sense of pride and accomplishment after completing a retail construction, restaurant construction and commercial construction project for a client. Commercial property preventative maintenance.

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Top 5 Construction Strategies to Consider Before Purchasing an Underperforming Shopping Mall

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As the economy improves and prices hit bottom, these transactions have become more realistic for commercial real estate investors when compared to past years. Perhaps the most important aspect in this process will be engaging a national retail commercial contractor for advice and feasibility studies.

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Commercial Construction Checklist for Reviving Stalled Commercial Projects

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It’s not just foreclosed homes that are looking like a bargain to real estate investors in today’s market, but also distressed commercial assets. Here are just a couple things that the best commercial contractors will know need to be answered before you consider taking over a distressed construction project. Is there any wild water?