Tag: Best Practices

Your physical relocation is a major step in the process to bringing your new office to life. You want your employees to feel excited and energized on day one in the new space.

The term take-off is a critical cost evaluation tactic introduced in the early stages of a project’s conceptual design...

From a managerial standpoint, it’s important to look ahead to see what your company needs. As firms experience success and expansion over time, it’s natural to outgrow workspace capabilities.

When you’re entering into a long-term lease for your business, you want to make sure that your lease terms are good for you and your business. Your lease terms should support the future success of your business.

Resilient design is defined as “the intentional design of buildings, landscapes, communities, and regions in response to vulnerabilities to disaster and disruption of normal life.”

As the Southern California forest fires rage on, we thought it would be pertinent to talk about fire maintenance and preservation in the face of a fire disaster.

A few weeks ago, we wrote a blog post about the competing values of company culture exploring the framework that identifies four culture types that span across two primary dimensions:

Hi, my name is Natalie Malawey-Ednie. I'm the Director of Project Management and Professional Development here at Watchdog.

Every organization is made up of many people who need different things to succeed and many departments, which need different things to succeed.

Believe it or not, our process does not change all that much whether we are on-site full-time, or managing project hundreds of miles away. We’ve broken down the differences, strategies, and benefits of each for further clarification.  

If you are involved in a construction project, chances are that you will be required to make frequent site visits, sometimes with little notice.

There are six key phases of real estate project management: assessment, planning, design, construction, relocation, and closeout. The easy answer to the question....

In today’s world, preparing for an active shooter incident is a reality.

Workplace strategy studies the experience one has while within the office environment

In order to clarify our services we had one of our Senior Project Managers outline exactly what he did over three days of managing a major out-of-the-ground construction project.

Rolling out multiple locations simultaneously is no easy feat. Compiling project teams, navigating budgets and schedules and managing the many details of one location can be daunting, let alone multiple locations.

When it comes to construction contractors, there is little state to state licensing uniformity. Construction licensing laws run the full spectrum throughout the country.