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Here are some specific strategies to help you hold the line on what you need to charge in order to prosper.

KA Architecture, 9th Street Design Studio, Western Reserve Building, Cleveland, Ohio

LEED has continued to make gains, but has not become the powerful market transformation tool it was meant to be.

If you are determined to use EIFS as the new cladding on an existing building, you may have a real challenge trying to find a way to get the new EIFS properly attached to the wall. Here are some solutions to attaching EIFS to unusual surfaces.

Seismic pods are known as lateral force bracing or horizontal restraint in code documents. The codes require lateral force bracing on suspended lay-in acoustical ceilings in areas prone to earthquakes.

The owner of a project called me to say: “I would like to know why you filed a lien on my building, and how did you arrive at the lien amount?”

Pain, in most cases, usually results in some sort of change depending on the severity. And the pain need not be physical, from disease or trauma.

Since the early 1980s the percentage of the construction industry that has been dominated by unionized companies has decreased, that is until the last few years. Something has changed. Unions offer training programs, a ready supply of skilled labor, and a level playing field of wages and established fringe benefits.

Company leaders consistently tell me that their Number One priority is safety. Unfortunately, safety talks to Latinos very frequently fall short of the level of importance and priority we affirm. There are three key concepts that point the way to giving the best safety presentations.

Nobody’s perfect, but competent contracting companies make relatively few mistakes when it comes to working with the tools of their trade. What’s more likely to go are communication breakdowns that lead to problems in the field.