By Eric Brown, Senior Project Manager In commercial development, speed to market is crucial. I don’t think I’ve ever had a client tell me that it isn’t one of, if not the, top...
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4 Ways Engaging Trade Partners Early Can Immediately Improve Your Project
We’ve already discussed early trade partner involvement in some of the earlier parts of this series, but it’s an important enough topic to address in a separate blog. Our trade...
How to Avoid Budget Problems Through Collaborative Design Review
Our industry historically has taken pride in the ability to value engineer projects. In reality, value engineering is actually a wasteful process that can and should be avoided...
3 Ways to Improve Your Project’s Outcome
How do you plan a road trip? You have a starting point and a destination — and a lot of choices along the way. Should you take the highway or the back roads? Turn left or turn...
4 Ways to Make Your Project Expectations a Reality
A project can only be successful if everyone involved is measuring success the same way. As an owner, you have to build a capable team you trust to work with you and clearly...
5 Criteria Your Builder Should Have
In our industry, there’s no such thing as a sure thing. Politics, market rates, labor shortages, weather, or even a pandemic, like we are facing today— all factors that can...
Design-Bid-Build vs. Design-Build: What is Right for You?
You’ve selected the site, secured funding, and are ready to choose your project team. Now, which project delivery method should you use? We break down two different types of...
Three Ways Mock-ups Add Value to a Project
Would you buy a car without a test drive? Or a house without a walk through? When it comes to expensive investments, we want to be able to see, touch, and verify before making a...
Preconstruction: Creating Certainty Through Early Planning
As we begin 2019, one of the main concerns in the economy and our industry is uncertainty. What will the impact be from tariffs and the trade wars? How will the government...
Using Lean in Preconstruction
While we’ve been implementing a lean construction mentality in the field for a while, our preconstruction team in Austin wanted to adopt lean practices to make our processes run...
Why You Should Consider a Design-Build Project
A new study by FMI reveals that design-build construction continues to grow among owners in the United States. According to the study, 39 percent of projects were design-build in...
Three Lean Practices to Help the Design Process
When we’re involved early in the planning process, we can better help the team stay aligned with project goals. That’s exactly what one of our Texas multifamily teams is doing....