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Commercial Construction Checklist: How to Ensure a Stalled Project Site is Safe and Ready to Rebound

HardHatChat

An idle commercial construction site is just begging to be explored by anyone from the curious passerby, to kids or even vandals and thieves. Time – Unless your commercial construction contractor is familiar with REO projects or knows how to plan for a building to sit empty for days, weeks or months, time is not your friend.

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ESG is an Opportunity for Commercial Landlords

Green Building Law Update

The ‘just in time’ delivery supply chain mantras of the 1980s promising lower costs through no inventory and efficient logistics seem a distant memory. Commercial real estate may be the best ESG supply chain opportunity. And businesses large and small have come to appreciate that supply chain is key to ESG.

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Storage Units: Are They Worth Buying Or Building?

Construction Marketing

Be it residential or for commercial purposes, they’ll probably be required in some cases. . For Commercial Use. To store their goods, supplies, materials, and inventory relevant to their businesses, many business owners look for storage units. To Serve As Extra Storage During Remodeling Projects .

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Calculations, Inventory, Service and More

Contractor Magazine

Software designed to streamline the use of Manual J calculations, a cloud-based collaborative inventory management solution, service management software for contractors with residential and commercial clients and more.

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How To Finance a Business: Short-Term vs. Long-Term

Construction Marketing

It’s generally used to cover immediate business needs, such as payroll, inventory purchases, or unexpected expenses. Commercial Real Estate Loans: These are loans used to purchase or refinance commercial property. It’s also designed for quick access to capital and often involves smaller amounts than long-term financing options.

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Sunbelt Cities Topping the Charts in Real Estate Growth Over the Past Half Century

Construction Marketing

A recent StorageCafe study did a comprehensive review of real estate activity from 1980 to 2023 , spanning residential, commercial, industrial, and self storage sectors. Self storage and industrial construction are picking up speed Among the commercial real estate sectors, self storage saw the largest expansion.

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DoD FSRM, BUILDER SMS and the LEGACY of Wasteful Politics

Job Order Contracting

released and first version commercially available 2003: NAVY funds development of BUILDER 3.0 (web-based web-based with single instance for entire component) 2005: Navy selects commercial tool for facility assessments in lieu of continuing with BUILDER 2006: USMC begins pilot tests of BUILDER 2007: BUILDER 3.0

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