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Scaling climate solutions in the built environment
If you were unable to attend the 2019 inaugural Illinois Drawdown Summit, you missed an important conversation that is gaining momentum in our industry. Here are some insights that we gleaned from the event.
Bringing new ideas to retail construction
Pepper Project Manager Tyler Schaffer was recently named a top 20 Leader Under 40 for his knowledge and approach to retail construction. As the retail industry's needs have changed, thanks in part to online shopping and automation, our teams are helping them think differently during construction.
Planning a casino project - tips for a winning hand
Opportunities in the gaming industry have developers racing to get their facilities up and running. Thinking about your back-of-house operations as you think about the gaming floor will pay off in your first days and weeks of operation.
Visionaries: A holistic approach to healing environments
For owners who are ready to take their sustainability initiatives to the next level, a customized self-certification process could be the next step. Learn how Advocate Aurora Health is using their Healthy Spaces Road Map as a more holistic approach to creating a healthy environment for patients and staff.
We CAN with you!
As we consider our blessings, let us not forget those less fortunate. This time of year is when our Ohio offices conduct our annual food drives - to end hunger and help those in need.
Sharing with the industry how to prevent underground utility strikes
It's been two years since Pepper created the Underground Utility Damage Prevention process. Instead of keeping our process proprietary, we're sharing how we're preventing utility strikes at venues like the LCI Congress and the American Institute of Constructors' Constructor Conference.
How to create a platform for change amid tradition
Technology is driving change in our industry. It's one thing to test it and another to adopt it. At Pepper, we're figuring out how to move innovative ideas from prototype to part of our business.
Building relationships and communication with tradespeople
A recent survey and focus group gave tradespeople an opportunity to voice how Pepper jobsites could improve. Pepper took their feedback to make changes, then we showed our appreciation with food and fun.
Pepper brings a familiar Halloween face to CANstruction
Pepper Construction worked with our partners at this year's Canstruction to create Jack Skellington from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" entirely out of canned food.
Honoring a heritage and celebrating the future
Typically we have Topping Out ceremonies on our projects, but recently on the St. Rita Square project, we celebrated the placement of Archangel Gabriel with the Italian-American community.
Pepper says "Prost!" to another Oktoberfest in Chicago
Pepper Construction once again assembled an Oktoberfest biergarten in our downtown Chicago parking lot and welcomed more than 400 clients, partners, employees and guests for traditional German fun and festivities.
Building a collaborative model
Designers and contractors use some of the same tools in different ways. What would happen if we took a collaborative charette-based approach to build one model together?