Case Studies In House Construction Executive

On a bright sunny morning in 2014, Graham Hallen and his business partner at Egg Harbor Café were on a 1.5-hour drive to the Rockford, Illinois, location. They were apprehensive about the visit as, due to unforeseen circumstances, the entire kitchen staff and much of the wait staff had quit—almost on the same day, which […]

As a longtime member of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gustavo Salas has spent many hours exploring the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. Yet, he never expected he’d one day get to work at his favorite places to visit. Only when he began […]

Imagine needing an act of Congress to move forward on a massive mixed-use construction project. The partnership of Madison Marquette and Hoffman & Associates Inc. needed three to begin construction on The Wharf, a mixed-use project extending along 27 acres of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., says Gary Ball. The partners also had to […]

Talk to anybody involved in construction, facilities and maintenance, and you’ll hear that there aren’t enough young people moving into the trades to replace the outgoing plumbers, electricians, carpenters, welders, painters, et al. It’s even more difficult to refill the ranks in the public sector, which pays less than private industry. It takes creativity and […]

The National September 11 Memorial and Museum is a sprawling, ground-level shrine paying tribute to the lives lost in the 2001 and 1993 attacks on the World Trade Center. Its rectangular bronze panels, which bear the names of everyone killed in those attacks—along with the crashes at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania—surround walls of […]