Who is busy and what types of work are keeping you busy during the down turn, and what has tanked. I will start. Doing Well 1. Funeral Homes 2. Small School Projects 3. Small Community College projects 4. Churchwork (Modernization and Seismic Projects) 5. Smaller T.I. Work (Commercial) Not Well I Here: 1. Medical 2. Large School Projects Thanks, Darryl
We keep busy with: 1. University Buildings (one just finishing, next one started, same client) 1a. Of all things, a huge shopping center (the university building is on top of the two story shopping center) 1b. Student housing (also on top of the shopping center) 2. Managed Care Housing (one under construction, two on the boards) 3. Apartment Buildings (one huge complex of 750 units in six towers, two getting ready for a building permit, fully funded) Dead in the water, all projects "on hold": 1. Large Office Buildings (what used to be our main portfolio) Odd ones (not our core business): 1. One Multi Million Dollar Apartment 2. One Multi Million Dollar Private Home (same client) So far, we are hanging in there. We get a lot of help of client/friends. However, the end of a project feels just one phone call away.
+3,559,995!!!! Not much happening here, some small T.I. work, a few small home remodels, and one medium sized LEEDS office building. Everyone thinks they want to be 'green', but I think when they realize how much 'green' they have to give up to be 'green' they will go back to the stucco box idea... BT
Since energy in Europe is much more expensive, it makes better financial sense to be green. Anything that has an earn-back time of less of 7 years, isn't even a discussion any more. Any investment that pays itself back in 10 years is a discussion with the client, but usually gets the "green" light. Anything that takes 40 years to recover gets nixed. In the US, with its still relatively cheap energy, everything takes too long to earn back.
I'm an engineer (in CT), but I'll chime in... Moving: Military facilities Renovations and improvements of all types Energy efficient infrastructure upgrades Low income housing Slow: Healthcare New school projects
Thanks. We have one of those too. In a Richard Meier building of all places (we even got his approval).
No offense to RM fans, but your work could put the architectural smack down on his in my professional opinion! BT
F Spyder - Has your factory design for Spyker ever gotten a greenlight? Thinking of this as last weekend we drove a Laviolette, and sat in (lusted after) an Aileron..... Tritone
Highend condos, lowrise and highrise, are doing very badly here in Dallas. I've seen several new projects go rental, others go up for public auction, one big $$ and high-prestige highrise was stopped in the framing phase and has been a fenced concrete skeleton for about six months now. Single family homes, new and existing, in the right neighborhoods are generally selling fast if not too overpriced. We began remodeling of a late 1940's cottage in January with a GC, and are almost through ; close to two months after we began, a new McMansion was started on the next lot west, it sold a couple weeks ago, before it went on the market.
Spyker needs to build 250 cars per year to make the new factory feasible. The max they built has been 100, and right now only half of that. There is a great site for that design, and the township has time...... So, who knows. Still enough excuse to visit the factory, and talk to Victor Muller on a regular basis (I was there yesterday).
