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3 Hidden Construction Costs Your Franchise Needs to Consider
Hidden costs typically end up costing you more time and energy than probably anything else throughout your franchise process!

The Top 5 Real Estate Tips For Your Franchise
Suppose you’re in the process of acquiring a commercial property to buy or lease for your business. In that case, it’s important to do your due diligence in becoming familiar with the property history and conditions. Some might view connecting with a national GC at this stage too early in the process.

Commercial Site Evaluations Critical To Project Management
A comprehensive site evaluation can help you run through all the facts about your commercial property or prospective property while helping you visualize any design program you have in mind for your portfolio.
Remodels and Build-Out Best Practices
When working within the franchise industry, it’s best practice to understand the complexities of all the commercial components and available custom finishes that can make your project stand out.
Quick Tips: Aligning Your Sow With Your Permitting Process
Permitting for an improvement project can be confusing, expensive, and unpredictable. Frequently, costly building requirements can range from delays to other nuisances towards the owner or lessee. With proper advocacy, you can avoid some of the conditions that don’t apply to your projects.
7 Best Practices Before Signing Your Franchise Lease
As commercial tenants enter their new leases, it’s easy to overlook some unfamiliar lease implications and terms on potential future expenses. A little bit of awareness can go a long way when helping lessees understand their existing conditions.
4 Construction Tips for Your Next Franchise Build
Congratulations on your new franchise! Now that you’ve got your space, there are a few key things you have to consider before jumping right into construction. Let’s explore some quick solutions and tips that will help ease the transition for your new build-out.
8 Strategies To Deliver Your Next Multi-Site Projects
Properly managing multiple construction projects can be a complicated task when you are often challenged with many other competing initiatives. When you are tasked with upgrading your current portfolio or lifting a complex remodel program, considered these eight strategies that your own peers leverage every day.
Protect Your Portfolio’s Growth with The Confidence of A National GC
There’s no lack of reports on how the current global pandemic changes construction safety regimens on job sites worldwide, which include the economic impact on the construction industry itself. Learn how to protect yourself and your employees.
Pre-Construction Strategy Tips
The pre-construction process is budget estimate creation. What are you supposed to do with your scopes when bids come in well above budget? Learn more.
Operational Advantages to Clearly Defined Scopes
The benefits of launching a remodel program are apparent. However, before beginning a construction project of this kind, there are several things to be aware of to help reduce costs, improve project timelines, and most importantly, avoid costly delays.
Avoid the High Stakes in Your Construction Projects With the Best Go-Forward Approach
The field of construction covers a vast range of professional areas and industries that include, but are not limited to: Hotels, Groceries, Senior Living, Retail, Banking, and more. Within these industries, you have a diverse list of project types, like ground-up construction and remodel initiatives, multi-site refreshes and rebranding projects along with fit-outs.
Methods To End Over Spending
Leadership style can lead to a quick build or result in a lower grade build. Faulty communication leads to overproduction and a rise in the budget. Materials can easily be over-ordered and not used. This creates an overstock of unusable material that goes to waste....
2020 Trends in Construction
A new decade has begun and trends that are already in the works are likely to evolve more throughout 2020. New ways to increase efficiency, sustainability, safety, are always being worked on. These new methods are sure to arise and below are some construction trends...
Steel VS Brick
Brick buildings were once popular but now are being replaced by steel structures. Steel has become an answer to various problems in construction and upkeep. Cost-efficient and easier to build with, the many benefits of steel have turned contractors away from any other...
Productivity Tips
Productivity in construction is the key to getting projects done on time. Exterior factors can hider this as well as an angry staff. There are ways to work around this and increase productivity on the job site. Here are five ways that you can improve your...