Commercial Construction Coffee Talk CCR Magazine

CCCT sat down with Michelle Horn, VP of Communications with the Fisher House Foundation & Joe Jena, Director, Talent Acquisition with 84 Lumber on "Hire A US Veteran Day".July 25th, 2024, is "National Hire a Veteran Day" (#HireAVeteranDay), a reminder to employers to consider hiring veterans to fill their open positions.Every day, hundreds of our military personnel leave the service in search of civilian employment. However, veterans entering the workforce after military service face a va...

CCCT sat down with Pam Paddock, Managing Director with JLL’s Life Sciences Work Dynamics division, where she focuses on leading the medtech/med device and CDMO sectors, along with Andrew Quirk, Institutional Industries Lead, JLL Project and Development Services, who is over Life Sciences, Healthcare and Public Institutions.JLL (NYSE: JLL) is a leading professional services Fortune 500® company with annual revenue of $20.8 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world. JLL’s Lif...

CCCT sat down with Steve Dell’Orto, CEO & Founder from ConCntric, a pre-construction platform that is transforming the fractured pre-construction environment by unifying data, people and processes. ConCntric acts as a single source of truth for all pre-construction stakeholders by providing a dynamic view of the project that ensures a certainty of outcome.As a 26-year construction industry veteran who has lived and breathed the world of delivering pre-construction projects, Steve is uniqu...

CCCT sat down with two women in construction - Senior Preproduction Manager Sara Hutchcraft and Preproduction Manager Okho Bohm from Excellerate, a division of Faith Technologies Incorporated (FTI), that is a national manufactured products company with a focus on electrical assemblies and modular solutions that range from made-to-stock to custom-engineered energy and construction solutions.Critical Components to Successful Projects 1) Reduction in Schedule 2) Tight Budget Control&nb...

CCCT sat down with Bryan Walker, Director of Facility Services for Persona-Triangle. Founded in 1931, helping their clients build brand image and communicate brand values is in their blood. Beginning with local signage projects in our Baltimore, Maryland home town, their steady growth has placed them in the forefront of the industry, supporting national roll-outs and international branding projects of every description.In fact, today their custom-tailored, innovative signs and lighting system...

CCCT sat down with Chris Callen, Founder & CEO from Plot that was created to solve some of your jobsite's largest problems. That being said, their passion lies in raising the quality of life for the frontline worker, especially those in the trades.They measure success by getting these men and women home a little earlier: to make every dinner with their families, to make every tee ball game, and to stop an industry tradition of relying on copious overtime to make up for project delays. Enj...