What makes a good neighbor? Or maybe a better question is what makes a bad neighbor? Someone who plays loud music? Maybe someone whose visitors park in front of your house? It...
Best Practices
How to Keep Steel Work on Schedule and Budget
Think about an assembly line. The workers at the beginning of the line have their parts and are ready to get started. But what happens if the work station down the line doesn’t...
The First Step to Labor Shortage Relief
Take a moment and think about your career. How did you get to where you are now? Were there any opportunities you took that opened doors for you? One of the things I love about...
Make Your Project All Treats, No Tricks
What keeps you up at night? We can think of a few nightmare situations that could pop up on a project. Budgets running out of control. Dead, vacant structures haunting valuable...
A Trusted Partner for Children’s of Alabama
May 23, 2009, we began a long journey with Children’s of Alabama to build not just a hospital – but a modern, sustainable building that would serve as a beacon of hope for sick...
5 Factors to Consider When Working on an Active Campus
My first higher education project with Hoar Construction was building a new student recreation and wellness center for Abilene Christian University. Our client wanted to replace...
4 Ways to Make Your Jobsite the Place People Want to Work
Have you every shared an office with someone? What kind of co-worker would you want working in a shared space? My guess is you wouldn’t want to work next to the person who leaves...
4 Site Factors That Can Derail your Budget
Picture a construction project. What comes to mind? Concrete trucks pouring foundations? Tower cranes moving steel into place? Maybe masons laying the building’s brick exterior?...
3 Things All Great Contractors Have on Their Resumes
No two projects are alike. We say that a lot in this industry, and it’s true — but that doesn’t stop clients from wanting to seek out contractors with relevant experience. It’s...
7 Factors Making Your Project More Expensive
If you use any service to stream movies or TV, you’ve probably gotten the email that notifies you your monthly payment is going up by a couple dollars. Or have you ever gone to...
Breaking the Big Box: Two Examples of Adaptive Reuse
Have you seen Stranger Things season 3? We promise this isn’t a spoiler — but the local mall where the majority of the show is set is a real mall, built by Hoar Construction. We...
Three Ways to Optimize Your Next Healthcare Project with Design Flexibility
Updating technology has always been one of the main factors that drives new healthcare construction. The speed at which new technology is developed and old technology becomes...