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How General Contractors Work with Commercial Architects to Mitigate Risks and Deliver Superior Commercial Construction Projects

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Real-World Example: Englewoods preconstruction collaboration with architects led to standardizing store layouts for a national retail rollout. Improved Design Feasibility and Cost Alignment Architects bring creativity and innovation to projects, while GCs focus on execution.

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Early Collaboration: The Key to Commercial Construction Risk Mitigation

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Over the past 20+ years, Englewood has completed over 2500 commercial construction projects in the retail, restaurant, hospitality, senior living, industrial, cannabis, and automotive sectors. These proactive safety measures reduced the risk of on-site incidents, minimized legal risks, and kept the project in line with OSHA requirements.

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3 Reasons to Reach Out to Your General Contractor During the Commercial Construction Process

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Before You Select A Site. Often a commercial general contractor isn’t tapped for a project until the specific site is already locked in. For ground-up projects, a GC can visit the site to look beyond what is shown on the plat of survey – including surroundings that will need to be considered in construction logistics.

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Shopping Mall Development Trends: Are Ghost Kitchens the Answer for Vacant Mall Space?

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CRE developers and owners are continuing to think creatively about filling vacant shopping mall space, and recently the idea of bringing in “ghost kitchens” to fill obsolete retail square footage has started to gain traction. From our perspective, bringing ghost kitchens to malls certainly isn’t a bad use of vacant retail space.

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How Has Covid Affected the Construction Industry?

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While on-site construction personnel are largely working as before, architects, accountants, and marketing staff are increasingly working remotely. This reduces the scope for brainstorming and pre-emptive problem-solving, at a time when many site plans and approved projects require modifying to meet post-COVID expectations.

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Kimley-Horn eliminates the guesswork of electric vehicle charger site selection

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Kimley-Horn eliminates the guesswork of electric vehicle charger site selection 0 dbarista Mon, 11/27/2023 - 15:08 Engineers Private businesses and governments can now choose their new electric vehicle (EV) charger locations with data-driven precision. TREDLite EV makes a science out of site selection.”

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Commercial Construction Trends: Why More Clients Are Choosing the Design-Assist Model

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This could be because the client is a national retail or restaurant chain with an in-house architect or designated design partner. In the case of one grocery retailer, we were brought in to do site visits and evaluations and give very topline construction pricing models based on their general requirements.