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Home of our portfolio, press releases, and employee blogs
Here, you’ll find a library of blog posts dedicated to different aspects of the commercial construction industry -- news and updates, upcoming trends, and past projects built by us at The Douglas Company.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is a complete and coordinated construction plan set worth? Arguably, the most critical components to any project are the construction documents. Plans, specifications, engineered calculations, supplemental instructions, requests for information, narratives, addendums, sketches; the list goes on. These documents are used by thousands of […]
March 21, 2024
Value Engineering is a term that has become so pervasive in the construction industry that the meaning of the phrase has been diluted down to the simple concept of saving money on a construction project, regardless of means and methods. A few years ago, I heard an architect say that most instances of contractor-initiated value […]
