Category: General Construction Knowledge and Information
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Common Challenges in Commercial Construction & How to Overcome Them
Regardless of your construction team’s expertise, unforeseen issues and challenges may arise. What separates the good from the great lies in managing and working through these challenges. A team navigating the complexities of commercial and non-residential construction projects must plan thoroughly, collaborate consistently, and adapt to changing situations. While every project has unique obstacles, they…
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Boost Your Business: Key Insights Into Commercial Renovations
Renovating your commercial space can be both exciting and daunting. A commercial renovation allows you to improve functionality and modernize or improve your place of work. These changes can have a marked and positive impact on your organization’s operations, from bolstering employee morale to boosting customer perception. However, a lot is riding on making the…
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Cheat Sheet for Optimizing Construction Budgets: 8 Tips from the Pros
Staying on a budget without cutting corners in quality is a common concern for many clients. In today’s economic climate, it’s more important than ever to ensure you’re doing the most you can with the resources you have. For well over a century, the team at Horst Construction has been helping our clients do just…
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From Vision to Reality: Transforming Your Dreams Into a Tangible Building
Whether renovating, building new, or adding onto an existing space, every building project starts with a vision. The vision for your project is crafted by your organization’s needs and wants, and promises a better environment to live, work, learn, or worship. However, sometimes this vision can get muddied up in the minutia of the project.…
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Oakhurst Cottage: Optimizing A Timeless Mount Gretna Hideaway
Nestled among the towering trees, mountain laurels, and rhododendron, Oakhurst Cottage welcomes visitors with a bright wrap-around porch and a dormer window rising from a hip-style roof. 19th-century details abound throughout this quaint two-story home, from original windows and doors to the finishes inside. In 2020, the Schroeders purchased this property, located right in…
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Maximizing Space Efficiency in Multifamily Construction Projects
As a developer in the highly competitive multi-family housing market, optimizing your return on investment isn’t as easy as it once was. Minimizing your net-to-gross ratio within a building becomes crucial. Every square foot that doesn’t generate revenue represents a missed opportunity. In this blog, we explore creative ideas and strategies for improving area and…
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How Design-Build Minimizes Risks & Burdens for Our Clients
The design-build project delivery method has become the option of choice for most construction projects in recent years. In addition to consistently delivering projects more quickly and for less money compared to methods like design-bid-build[i], the approach also has two major benefits for project owners: it reduces their risk and burden. In this blog, we’ll…
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Materials, Fixtures, & Finishes – 7 Ways to Get the Best for Your Construction Project
Whether building from the ground up or renovating an existing space, a construction project will require you to make a plethora of decisions. Chief among these is selecting the building blocks of the project itself — the materials, fixtures, and finishes. The items you choose for your project will not only impact the final look…
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Fieldstone at Chester Springs – February 2023 Update
Work is well underway at VantagePoint Retirement Living’s newest senior living community, Fieldstone at Chest Springs. Join us for an inside look at the construction of this new senior living community as Project Manager Zach Weil gives us an update on the progress. Then, he’ll meet with Project Manager Doug Wilson from B.R. Kreider &…
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10 Wise Construction Quotes to Inspire Your Next Project
For millennia, humans have created structures and buildings, altering our environments to bring protection, comfort, and connection. While the construction methods and tools have changed over time, the reasoning and motivations behind why we build remain constant. As we look to the future of building and design, we can learn from and be inspired by…