Although physical retail stores might be suffering huge losses, online retail is booming. With all the extra demand, online retailers are looking to renting commercial real estate — but not to set up physical locations, but instead to store their goods. Renting a warehouse (or several) is becoming more and more common for online giants, … [Read more…]
There are signs virtually everywhere, fighting for our attention and business dollars. In this plugged-in age, our eyes are far more likely to be drawn to a digital sign than a traditional static image. Our constant reliance on phone, tablet, and computer screens has trained us to zoom in on a moving image and ignore … [Read more…]
The small office of the Montessori daycare seemed to always be in a state of reorganization. Not the physical reorganization, but a constant adjustment to the professional office solutions needed to keep the school running efficiently. When the preschool and day care center first opened, the office manager had plenty of time to manage time … [Read more…]
Hotel and motel fires cause an estimated 15 deaths and 150 injuries every year. Fire gives us warmth, light, and life; yet it also has equal capacity to burn, kill, and destroy. As a species, we have become very adept at controlling fire and working with it, yet we all too often forget that fire … [Read more…]
The construction industry has some of the most perilous work conditions one can imagine, but thanks to modern safety lifting gear, the number of work-related illnesses are down from 10.9 incidents per 100 workers in 1972, down to just 3.4 per 100 in 2011. This is thanks in no small part to the Occupational Safety … [Read more…]
In a world where over 80% of American adults take a daily medication (and almost a third take more than 2 a day), there is an increased need for companies to package medicine in a way that is helpful and safe for buyers. With a variety of packaging options available on the market, outsourcing your … [Read more…]
Shipping is a busy and important activity, encompassing almost 90% of trade all over the world. At any particular point of time, there are approximately 20 million steep shipping containers in transit — a mind-boggling fact which also gives rise to some interesting eventualities. For most companies, it is a prohibitive and unnecessary expense to … [Read more…]
Do you consider yourself king — or queen — of the hill as well as the road? If you do, then you can join the countless number of American drivers who consider themselves “fair to good” drivers. The only problem with this is that they usually aren’t more often than not. Just think, when was … [Read more…]
Being outside of the country with your family on vacation made you realize the importance of a working sewer system. The visit your family of four took to Costa Rica was beautiful, amazing, memorable, and adventurous. The volcanoes, the monkeys, the rain forests, the beach, the surfing, the sunsets. If it would have been possible, … [Read more…]
With rent prices soaring, many people are opting to purchase and move into their own homes. In fact, 24% of recent home buyers cited the desire to own a home as the reason why they made the investment that they did. There was a variety of factors that led them to purchase their new homes … [Read more…]
