Commercial Construction

Factors that Impact Your Restaurant Renovation Cost

One of the most important things you can do to continually attract customers to your restaurant is keeping your establishment up-to-date. For this reason, restaurant renovation should be considered just another cost of doing business. Every restaurant owner needs to budget for this expense.

Determining exactly how much to budget, however, can be tricky. While it’s […]

7 Tips to Help You Successfully Renovate Your Restaurant

A restaurant renovation can be a major change for a business, but it’s a necessary one. Keeping your business fresh and up-to-date is crucial to attracting new customers and to keep your old ones coming back. If you’re planning a renovation, make sure you follow these tips.
1. Don’t Wait Too Long
Customers will start to leave […]

Integrating Flexibility Into Health Care Construction

Building medical facilities requires a different approach than is used for other types of commercial construction. The pace of technological advancement and the changing needs of an aging population require buildings that can flex and grow at the same pace as the medical industry.

This can pose a challenge to architects and construction companies. It is vitally important that medical construction projects are handled by companies that understand these unique challenges and are ready and able to respond accordingly. […]

Best Practices for Health Care Renovation and Construction

Should you build a new health care facility? Or should you renovate a current facility? That’s the billion dollar question.

You have to take into account the needs of the facility and the available options. If there’s not much physical space for expansion or if modernizing the facility isn’t cost-effective, it makes sense to start from scratch with a new facility.

But if a health care campus has a great existing location, is in good condition and has the space available to continue to grow, there’s no reason to pick up and start over. In these cases, the argument should be made for renovating. […]

Experience vs. Credentials: How Does Your Contractor Measure Up?

Construction is far from the only industry where credentials and experience vary greatly in value, but it’s definitely one of the areas where the differences stand out the most. Since construction is such a physical and hands-on process, it’s not enough to simply know how to build commercial structures. When shopping for a general contractor […]

Stop Worrying About Construction Cost Control

Our Sage 100 Contractor software empowers our people to control costs of all aspects of project management, from the planning stages to the end of the building phase. But just as important as having the right tools is possessing a good grasp of cost control fundamentals. Let’s take a look at some of these principles.
Accuracy
Accurate information […]

Technology Has Changed Commercial Construction For the Better

Not that long ago, in the early 2000s, commercial construction projects were far less efficient and far more difficult to manage than they are today. Technology has caused a sea of change in the way that commercial construction operates, having an impact on virtually every aspect of the field. Technological advancements continue to improve at an astonishing pace, and the companies […]

Top Restaurant Design Trends for 2016

Staying current on the upcoming restaurant design trends can help your business reach new levels of success. Knowing which trends are likely to provide you with the biggest return on your investment will help you focus your restaurant renovation strategy so you can work more cohesively with your general contractor. Below are some of the […]

Tips for a Successful Restaurant Renovation

Embarking on a restaurant renovation is important in order to provide the best services to your customers. In addition, renovating your restaurant helps it better meet your goals for the short and long term. Undertaking commercial construction such as this while also keeping your restaurant in operation can be a challenge. Keep the following tips […]