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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...
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...
Women in Construction: How I Got Started in the Industry
Our people are our greatest asset, so we put a lot of effort into recruiting employees with diverse experience, talents, and backgrounds. Twenty-one percent of our employees are...
Write Your RFP to Hire the Right Team
After 78 years in the construction industry, we’ve responded to our fair share of requests for proposals (RFPs). Because every project and owner are different, we meticulously...
Three Ways Your Contractor Can Help You Take Full Advantage of Opportunity Zones
During the summer of 2018, whispers started to emerge from distant corners of the real estate market about a new program called Opportunity Zones – the “best-kept secret” of the...
3 Soft Skills Needed for Construction
In construction, it’s not all about technical jargon or knowing how to read the blueprints. While that certainly is helpful, when we’re looking for new employees there are many...
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...
Fall Protection from a Different Angle
In construction, fall protection is the most frequently cited violation by OSHA (Top 10 Most Frequently Cited Standards). Typically, when we discuss fall protection, we’re...
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...