Design / Build

Meet the IREM Member: Terence Fraser

Terence Fraser, CPM is the recipient of the prestigious BOMA NY Pinnacle Award for the 2010/2011 Operating an Office Building of the Year, 5...

Rose Associates exclusive marketing and leasing agent for 56 buildings

Rose Associates has once again been appointed exclusive marketing and leasing agent for both Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, accor...

B.R. Fries completes $1.2 million sports medicine area for Hospital for Special Surgery

B.R. Fries & Associates, LLC, a New York-based general contracting and construction management firm, has completed a new sports medicine sui...

Compliance headaches? Jason Griffith's SiteCompli is here to help

You've probably never met anyone who is as excited about compliance management as Jason Griffith. "I know, it's the least sexy business in t...

Chok-Pan Wong 2011

Name: Chok-Pan Wong Title: Senior Associate Company: GACE Consulting Engineers Location: 31 West 27th St., New York, NY 10001 Birthplace: Ho...

New temporary 100% depreciation deduction allowed for qualified capital expenditures

Given the current economy, any business strategy that reduces taxes and increases cash flow has inherent value. It is understandable then th...

Technology offers new dimensions of transparency for long-term success

In a period of underperforming assets, investors are asking "why" much more frequently than they did even three years ago. Amid a difficult ...

A contractor expeditor to coordinate and obtain contractor sign offs for TCO has become necessary

Nothing is more frustrating to an owner, CM, or GC during the TCO process than to diligently pursue the TCO process over a 6 month period of...

Improving profitability and process with Lean Construction

A large construction company was recently working on building a hospital in the Midwest when it came upon a common situation that will sound...

Deicers and concrete installation: Property owners need to be proactive!

Generally, all deicers work in the same way. They depress the freezing point of ice or snow and turn the mixture into a liquid or slush. Sal...