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Commercial Construction Best Practices: Why one Chicago Commercial Construction Firm Melted for These Cupcakes

Chuck Taylor Best commercial construction projects, Best Practices, Chicago Construction News, Commercial Construction Trends, Construction Bids, construction management, construction safety practices, Constructions best-practices, englewood construction, School construction, Shopping Center Construction August 31, 2011

Bright Start Cards — Nothing says you completed a successful education construction job more than thank-you cards from these Bright Horizons kids…

Cupcake restaurants are hot right now in restaurant construction trends. In fact, Chicago cupcake restaurants and food trucks are popping up all over the place. However, the best Chicago cupcakes Englewood Construction ever had were the ones from our latest Chicago education construction job.

After we completed a school construction project for a Bright Horizons pre-school, the teachers and students threw our construction team a thank-you party with decorated cupcakes and hand-made cards. Cute, right? Well, it’s more than that.

I don’t know if the cupcakes were made from scratch or out of a box, but they were the best damn cupcakes for one simple reason – they reminded us how important our jobs are and that commercial construction projects touch the lives of everyone big and small.

There we were, face-to-face with our client’s end-users. If we had skimped on commercial construction costs and used cheap construction materials, or decided to cut corners to speed up the construction schedule, these were the people who would have suffered due to faulty construction.

Don’t worry, I won’t get sappy on you. But commercial construction developers, owners and landlords should never lose sight of how a commercial construction general contractor’s work affects the public and their safety.

Bright Start Cupcakes — …unless it's awesome cupcakes from the teacher. Check out the construction tools on top!

The commercial construction industry is a business and whether you’re a commercial property manager, shopping center landlord or restaurant owner, it’s about the bottom line. Trust me, we provide the best retail/restaurant/office construction budgets we can, but there are additional factors to consider when reviewing your commercial construction bid. Does your GC provide you with an industrial construction preventive-maintenance checklist? What about satisfied commercial construction client testimonials? Also keep in mind that there’s no line item for honesty, work ethic and construction site safety.

All I’m saying, is do the right thing. Whether you’re budgeting a new restaurant construction job, or hiring the best Chicago retail construction firm you can, always keep safety and integrity top of mind because you never know who might be making you cupcakes.

For the record, the Bright Horizons cupcakes were awesome.