Case Studies Commercial

Daniel Munoz has never been far from a construction site. He swept the dust of drywall adhesive off floors as a boy and learned the trades from his father and anyone else who’d teach him at Warner Constructors. Now the company’s Vice President of Project Management and Construction, and soon to be one of its […]

It’s been sent to the so-called dustbin of history, and nobody’s likely to have mourned the demolition of the old King County Youth Services Center in Seattle. Especially with the new Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center having opened late last year to critical acclaim and reflecting a more progressive approach to […]

During the economic downturn and recession in 2008 and 2009, just before Duane Boris came to work at Northern Tool, the Minnesota-based construction equipment provider faced a choice: Continue as it had or adapt to the changing marketplace. It did the same thing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Boris says. “Even though we’ve been […]

There’s a new Silicon Valley in the making across the Pacific. South Korea’s Gyeonggi Province is a hotbed for young tech talent and a region that HP Inc. targeted for expansion long before its 2016 acquisition of Samsung Electronics’ printer-copier division. That $1 billion-plus transaction was consummated right around the time Douglas Wolf became HP’s […]

Opportunities may beckon well outside the 80-mile radius extending from Portsmouth, Virginia, but there are more than enough projects here to sustain Chesapeake Drywall & Acoustics Inc.  “No need to overextend,” President and owner David J. Benjack tells Blueprint in early spring. Not that this is shaping up as one of the livelier commercial construction seasons of late. Like practically every other industry, construction within that radius—which extends from Portsmouth […]

When Dave Verna sends drawings of piping installations to a foreman who will be working on the roof of a dangerous high-rise building, that employee will know exactly where to put a strategic weld or the best place to install valves. How does that happen? It’s because that employee has seen it all before, Verna […]

Though it’s leveled out somewhat in recent years, Texas’ population growth—now at around 1.3 percent—is still comfortably ahead of the rest of the nation’s. Given the demographics of the newcomers—young, upwardly mobile, attracted by well-paying jobs in tech and energy—one of the results of the boom has been a growing demand for massive multifamily developments. […]

It’s the kind of record-breaking achievement that only gets noticed by those concerned with pipeline infrastructure. Who else gives a second thought to what’s underfoot as long as the utilities are duly humming? But as long as such matters can be taken for granted, somebody must be doing something right, and in the summer of […]

When the project came up, nobody thought it would fly. It was every developer’s worst nightmare: a beleaguered riverfront property in NYC plagued with environmental problems and restrictions and a property owner facing bankruptcy. The shoreline and channel were trashed from Hurricane Sandy, and a landfill on the property would cost millions of dollars to […]

Blessed and cursed by nature, the high desert cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, California, would seem to an observer. Located in the very scenic Antelope Valley just 70 miles from downtown Los Angeles, those two cities can boast views of the San Gabriel Mountains to the south and the Tehachapi Mountains to the north. They […]