Urban development comes with its own set of unique challenges for the construction industry. Since 2005, the BANC Group has been involved in developing the downtown and surrounding areas of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Its highly skilled development team and an individualized approach to every project are helping Halifax residents and businesses grow in customized buildings designed for the twenty-first century.
July 2019
Island Exterior Fabricators
Pushing the Envelope
In a bid to blend the realms of art and architecture, Island Exterior Fabricators stretches the boundaries of building envelope material use further than ever before, garnering some well-deserved kudos in the process and bringing to market applications that have traditionally been impossible to attain.
Michilli Inc.
Where Quality, Style, and Beauty Are Not Negotiable
As Prada, Bulgari, Valentino, Vera Wang, and Versace have experienced firsthand, Michilli Inc. provides pre-construction and construction services to the high end retail, commercial, and residential markets. The company offers full design-build solutions while reducing costs and timelines for its clients.
Callahan Construction Managers
Diversity in Construction, Diversity in Talents
In a construction industry the size of America’s, to have featured amongst the top 400 in the country says much about a company. Better still if it is a multi-talented construction manager with outstanding success in a range of diverse markets.
Air-Tec
Where Personal Attention Meets Skill and Capability
Air-Tec is a full-service HVAC company providing design, custom manufacturing, installation, and maintenance services to customers in California and Nevada. For over fifty years the company has earned a reputation for its excellent customer service and the highest standard of quality in the region.
Popli Design Group
The Most Intelligent Buildings on the Block
When it comes to public spending, taxpayers are concerned about value for money and rightly so. In a bid to serve its communities to the best of its ability, Rochester, New York-based Popli Design Group offers a lot more than this.
SKA Consulting Engineers
Quality, Integrity, and Innovation
SKA Consulting offers a full range of engineering services to customers throughout the United States and, occasionally, beyond. The company has developed a reputation for solving complex problems.
LEED for Communities
Meeting the Needs of a Changing World
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is on a mission to transform buildings and communities. Through LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), the world’s most widely used green building rating system, the organization has been helping architects, building owners, developers and more meet their sustainability goals since the 1990s.
The Greening of the Hospitality Industry
Where Construction and Amenities Meet
More and more hotels and resorts are adopting a linen reuse program for guests staying more than one night. That’s a green strategy guests recognize — they may even think it’s the only one in place — but it turns out there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes as hotels and resorts “go green” and turn to the construction industry for help getting there.
Turn-Key Processing Solutions
Delivering on Promises
A myriad of factors contribute to optimal plant operations and this is true across industries. From the design of the plant to the equipment and the workflow, operations require extensive planning, vision and management – and the place to go for those things and so much more is Turn-Key Processing Solutions (TPS).
Lépine Corporation
Bringing Luxury to Life
More and more, younger people are sadly being priced out of home ownership while baby boomers are retiring and downsizing, and this evolving market is creating more renters. The result is a more competitive real estate situation, with an increased demand for rental accommodation but not enough supply.
Creating Outdoor Luxury
Bespoke Backyards
Years ago, backyard beautification usually meant planting some flowers, adding a couple of shrubs, and laying down a few patio stones to create a small deck. Outdoor furniture – if you could truly call it ‘furniture’ – usually comprised a picnic table and aluminum lawn chairs with uncomfortable, sticky plastic mesh seats and backs. Barbecuing was still somewhat exotic, and most outdoor grillers used folding barbecues or tiny rectangular hibachis. Unless among the wealthy, in-ground pools were few, with above-ground corrugated steel or plastic versions more likely.
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