Strategy
Alan Lambert, president of Connell Design, tells of the firm’s vast experience in Seattle-area renovations—including an 80,512-square-foot project for Comcast—and how its dedication to the niche has earned it many return customers
Under CEO Joseph Schumacher, Goddard Systems, Inc. is expanding its winning franchise system for child-care education further across the country
Partnering with big-name clients such as NASA and Texas A&M University, Alpha Building Corporation and Kathleen Kovich Acock use job-order contracting to cultivate a massive annual workload
PARIC Corporation is taking steps to increase its reach beyond eastern Missouri, but doing so has required a renewed focus on the hiring and training of new personnel
Carole Jurkash talks directly about how she, as DTZ’s senior vice president and general counsel, manages the real estate advisory firm’s risks, advocating for project managers as consultants rather than construction managers
CenterPoint Properties staked its reputation—and millions of dollars—on financing and developing the two largest intermodal rail facilities in America, and now it’s expanding with a high-profile government project
Since joining Meritage Homes as its award-winning general counsel, he has melded his past experience in private practices with his passion for homebuilding
Thomas Gannon brought American Express’s planning and construction workforce in-house, and now it’s creating everything from flexible office spaces to luxury airport lounges
General counsel Michael Pfeiffer managed a merger that made his company, Realty Income Corporation, the largest publicly traded net-lease REIT in the nation, and, in his spare time, he helped acquire properties worth a total of $25 billion—all in 2013.
The open, engaging, amenities-littered design of Adobe’s Lehi, UT, campus is catching on company-wide, so director of global workplace solutions Jonathan Francom is overseeing its worldwide implementation
