January 2003
Feature
A Different Buzz [1]
You'd think these were boom times, judging by all the remodeling my friends and neighbors are doing.
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Jeffrey Glass, CEO of Construction Concepts Corp. in Stamford, Conn., knows from experience that a great-looking project doesn't necessarily translate into a great photograph.
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Bill Asdal [3]
A former vocational education teacher in Parsippany, N.J., Bill Asdal, CGR, has been promoting technical and managerial construction education throughout his professional life.
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Daring to go where few - if any - remodelers have gone before, the individuals and companies on these pages have raised the bar for the remodeling industry and dragged the rest of us, occasionally kicking and screaming, with them.
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Dan Bawden [5]
Lots of people read 'Fixing to Stay,' a study of Americans older than 45 that was released by AARP in 2000.
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Originally the term referred primarily to siding salesmen and to tactics that were deceptive as well as pushy. Several local Better Business Bureau Web sites feature tin men as the 1950s' contribution to the top scams of the past century.
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Dining Room [7]
Clients of James D. Compo Inc., a custom home building and remodeling firm in Farmington Hills, Mich., had a decision to make: Should they buy a new $1.2 million house or remodel their 1940s ranch-style home?
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Trying to make your customer brochure a standout? Why not skip the brochure entirely?
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Iris Harrell [9]
Don't compare Harrell Remodeling's 1-year-old employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) to that of United Airlines, Enron or WorldCom.
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Living Room [10]
When Seymour Turner, vice president of Airoom (Lincolnwood, Ill.), talked to the owners of this 40-year-old, two-story house, they made their wishes clear. Now that their children were older, they wanted to update their house by adding a casual...
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Even successful remodelers should occasionally look back at the same time they're trying to peer into the future.
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Bob Sturgeon was neck and neck with another good remodeler in a heated bidding contest for a plum job back in 2001.
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On Site [13]
Members of the Pinnacle Awards class of 2002 gather at PR's Benchmark conference in Boston
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Phone First [14]
Bill Simone, owner of Custom Design & Construction in Los Angeles, used to spend at least 15 minutes on the telephone going through the fine points of an open position with each job applicant only to find that many callers weren't a fit.
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Many remodeling projects today include removing barriers to accessibility within a person's home.
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Shirey Contracting [16]
The roots of green remodeling run deep at 25-year-old Shirey Contracting in Issaquah, Wash., a Seattle suburb.
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Testing Our Resolve [17]
If you're anything like me; if your company is anything like mine, you've spent untold hours over the last month analyzing the year that's past and preparing for the year to come.
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Anyone who has recently tried to purchase commercial insurance knows that rates have skyrocketed.
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