How to Find Leaks
Water damage and leaks can be hugely costly to you and your budget. Water can both create mold and other slower, ongoing issues associated with health, and bigger, faster problems with structural integrity, rot, and deterioration of property value. Finding a leak in your ceiling, foundation, or discovering the after-effects of a leak by way […]
The Benefits of Design & Build
At Fuhrmann Construction, the design-build mantra has always been the superior system when it comes to implementing a development process. Design-build is defined as a project delivery method in which both design and construction services are provided by the same firm, known as the design-builder. This process is vastly different from the traditional architect/contractor hire […]
How Technology Has Changed Retail Design
The ever-expanding digital realm is always finding new ways to plant itself in the marketplaces of the world. When we look at the financial industry, technology has always been a staple for increasing efficiency, transparency, and ease of use for customers. In more laborious industries like fabrication and manufacturing, advancing technology is responsible for reducing […]
Open-Concept vs. Cubicles – Which Office Layout is Best?
There’s been much debate lately on the pros and cons of open concept office space versus the traditional cubicle-based layout of yesteryear. Both bring interesting advantages and disadvantages to the table, related to productivity, privacy, feeling of community, and workplace stress levels. As modern office design continues to evolve, business owners, staff and construction companies […]
Innovation Theory: A Guide to Commercial Design
Designing the interior of a commercial property can be a delicate process; risky in that you have to create an engaging experience for your potential guests and customers, but it’s got to remain as cost-effective and as efficient as possible at the same time. Further to this complex mosaic of possibilities and processes, there’s the […]
How You Can Save Space in Your Office
For many people, working in a cramped, cluttered, and unorganized space can bring about a feeling or being overwhelmed, unprepared, and even anxious. Get Rid of Paper As offices and modern businesses continue on the path of investing in technological prowess and streamlining business practices, the elimination of paper – both as a capital cost […]
The Dangers of Design Purgatory & How to Avoid It
Defining design as a constantly forward-moving process is plain foolish. Design is no different than any other critical thinking process, building plan or strategy for that matter. It’s subject to changing trends, ideologies, thoughts and personalities – of both the designers themselves, and the market to which they’re building for. It’s for this reason we […]
Top 5 Quick Tenant Improvements to Increase the Value of Your Property
Increasing the value of your property doesn’t mean you have to gut and flip the entire space – quite the opposite. Often times, subtle upgrades and small details, as well as improvements to curb appeal can go a long way to increase the value of your investment. When working with your tenants, it’s both beneficial […]
The Psychology of Good Retail Design
It’s no secret to shoppers and retail business owners that people seek out and employ the benefits of real-life positive experiences. Period. As a species, we’re neurologically designed to curiously find and capture the very roots of our happiness. We seek to surround ourselves with people, colours, objects and feelings that portray positivity, safety, pleasure […]
The Psychology of Office Design
Office spaces do more than house the employees, strategists and masterminds behind the world’s business, economic, retail and legal sectors – they also shape the psychological framework that helps define the levels of motivation and career satisfaction employers see in their employees. It’s this relationship between people and their environment that can have a positive […]