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What Is Construction Consulting?
In the realm of consulting there are probably consultants for every industry. However, you might not be familiar with construction consulting for residential contractors or homeowners. But, if you’re a contractor about to begin a home building project or are involved...
Construction Consultant Advice: Is Building Your Home Better Than Buying?
“You can dream, create, design, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it requires people to make the dream a reality.” – Walt Disney. 2021 and now, 2022 have become known as the years of the insanely volatile real estate market. Would-be home buyers...
Making Sustainable Home Building Work
There are several aspects to the process of building a sustainable home and it’s much more than simply choosing the best materials. Other considerations must be taken into account even before the planning and design phase if a structure such as a house can be...
Why A Construction Consultant: A Brief Overview
“Delivering a project isn’t difficult. What’s difficult is delivering a project without first taking the time to plan properly” - James Leal Those relatively new to construction, or who are not always involved in the field, such as homeowners, attorneys, or even...
Why A Construction Consultant Is Critical In Today’s Building Environment
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau, philosopher Not so long ago, one of the common objections to sustainable building was the comparative costs of design and construction. Never mind the ROI over time from the...
Green Building: Alternative Materials For Residential Construction
In an effort to promote sustainable living in North America and, in the United States in particular, the most common approach to residential construction is wood framing with siding. The siding can range from wood, aluminum vinyl, and fiber cement products. Roofs are...
Sustainable Living Also Means Recycling
Sustainable living is the training of your demand for natural assets by making sure that you regenerate what you use to the best of your ability. “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” - Edmund Burke One of the...
Green Building in 2022: What Does The Future Hold?
The modern concept of sustainable living or “green building'', began over five decades ago. According to a page at the Environmental Protection Agency’s website, “The contemporary green building movement arose out of the need and desire for more energy efficient and...
Architectural Construction Consulting: When Architects Need Advice
Architects are professionals and experts in their chosen field. And it would be no stretch of the truth to say that no building or structure would be built without architects, certainly no commercial or public structures, for certain. This is because a building of any...
Construction Consultants: Expert Guidance for Design and Construction Needs
Properties and buildings face structural and design issues even after the construction is almost complete. Take the case of a property manager responsible for a dozen duplexes. Apparently there were code violations that occurred during construction. Now the buildings...