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Benchmarking is a fundamental way for firms to evaluate their status and identify best practices in order to increase performance. Competitive benchmarking helps a firm determine how they line up with their industry and, as a result, gauge their level of prosperity. To that end, AIA’s new Firm Benchmarking Tool was created to help firms…
LS3P’s Stephen Ramos, AIA, LEED AP BD + C, has been selected as a 2017 Forty Under 40 winner by the Charleston Regional Business Journal. 2017 marks the 20th anniversary of the Forty Under 40 awards. Since 1998, this elite 40 has been comprised of people under 40 years of age who have excelled in…
Avison Young, a commercial real estate services firm, announced today that it has acquired Raleigh, NC-based Hunter & Associates, LLC. Founded in 1989 by Banks Hunter, Hunter & Associates is a full-service commercial real estate company specializing in retail leasing, property management and brokerage services. Effective immediately, Hunter & Associates is rebranded as Avison Young…
The solar industry continues to take off in South Carolina. Dominion Power announced that it plans to construct, own and operate 81 megawatts (AC) of solar generating capacity in Jasper County, S.C. These two projects – a 71.4-megawatt facility that would be South Carolina’s largest and a 10-megawatt array – are expected to enter service…
The Associated Builders and Contractors of the Carolinas (ABC) announced the recipients of the nations premier construction honors, the National Excellence In Construction (EIC) Awards. The awards were presented at the 27th annual EIC banquet during ABC’s Workforce Week ’17 in Fort Lauderdale, FL. “I am proud to honor the commitment to world-class safety, superior…
The S.C. Department of Transportation has opened a program for South Carolina residents to receive construction training. The SCDOT recently awarded a Transportation Careers Training Program grant to S2 Engineering and Consulting. Under the grant, 30 residents of 5 South Carolina counties may be eligible to receive pre-employment training, heavy equipment operator training and commercial drivers’ license…
Downtown Raleigh was devastated by a construction site fire last Friday. News outlets and social media provide a view of the devastation, but we also observed the success stories in the properties saved because of firefighters and fire sprinklers. Buildings adjacent to the burning structure were saved by fire sprinkler systems that operated when glass windows failed from…
Several buildings in downtown Raleigh were engulfed in flames after a fire broke out after 10 p.m. in a building under construction. The Metropolitan, a five-story apartment project that was under construction on Jones Street, appears to be completely destroyed. Banner Real Estate Group and construction firm Clancy & Theys were building the project. Today, they released a joint…
Several State Government Complex buildings were impacted by the five-alarm fire in downtown Raleigh on the night of March 16. Affected buildings are expected to resume normal operations on Monday, March 20. The Department of Administration’s Facility Management Division today conducted walk-through inspections of each state government building in the vicinity of the fire to…
As competition heats up the construction software space, technology solutions provider, JBKnowledge, continues to develop products to provide new capabilities to help contractors streamline their preconstruction activities. “Since we first developed SmartBid in 2006, we’ve developed many custom solutions for large TPAs and insurance brokers around the world. We quickly realized we wanted to specialize in…
