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What Is Lean Construction and How Does It Save Money?

What Is Lean Construction and How Does It Save Money?
Engaging in a major construction or renovation project is a significant investment for your business. When construction doesn’t proceed smoothly and efficiently, it becomes an even more substantial investment. Lean construction is a philosophy and practice that applies Lean principles to construction projects to reduce waste, improve efficiency, and deliver greater value to the project…
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Does Your Facility Need an Industrial Fuel Tank Replacement?

Does Your Facility Need an Industrial Fuel Tank Replacement?
If your outage prevention measures include a backup generator, if you operate a retail or industrial fuel center, or if you have any other need to store large quantities of fuel, you probably have an industrial fuel storage tank. Fuel storage tanks, both underground and above ground, have changed a lot over the past several…
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Choosing the Best Uninterruptible Power Supply Contractor

Choosing the Best Uninterruptible Power Supply Contractor
In last month’s article, we discussed the importance of outage prevention. Ensuring that your team can continue their work, even when the power grid goes down, is crucial to maintaining productivity and profitability. Even a couple of hours of lost time can mean thousands in irrecoverable losses to your business. If you operate a data…
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Outage Prevention: Commercial Backup Generator FAQs

Outage Prevention: Commercial Backup Generator FAQs
Downtime is a vampire for your business. It drains productivity and profitability and causes delays in every aspect of your operation. Losing a mission-critical system or your data connection is bad enough, but nothing can bring you to a complete halt like a loss of electrical power. Back in 2016, Delta Air Lines’ operations center…
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The Importance of Good Subcontractor Relationships

The Importance of Good Subcontractor Relationships
One thing we pride ourselves on at JLJ and Associates is our exceptional relationships with our subcontractors. And while you might think, “Well, that’s nice, but how does it help me?” you might be surprised. Our subcontractors are essential to what we do, providing specialized skills and performing crucial tasks in the course of any…
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How JLJ Protects Your Team’s Safety in the Workplace

How JLJ Protects Your Team’s Safety in the Workplace
When you’re choosing a contractor to perform expansions, updates, repairs, or renovations for your commercial, retail, or industrial space, you need to consider a lot of factors, such as cost, scheduling, performance on past projects, and a thousand other things. One that you may have yet to consider is one of the most important: how…
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Can Your Access Floor Company Do Live Replacement? We Can!

Can Your Access Floor Company Do Live Replacement? We Can!
Over the last several months, we’ve discussed the importance of keeping your business’s raised access flooring well-maintained and up-to-date. As we’ve shown, a worn or damaged access floor is a recipe for disaster, creating hazards for your employees and equipment and opening your business up to significant liability in the event of an injury or…
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4 Potential Hazards of a Damaged Raised Floor

4 Potential Hazards of a Damaged Raised Floor
In last month’s article, we discussed why it might be time to consider replacing your data, telecom, or other facility’s raised access flooring. While there are some great reasons to consider a replacement, including potential energy savings, reduced maintenance costs, and easier infrastructure upgrades, the most compelling reason is this: A damaged raised floor system…
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Is It Time to Replace Your Raised Access Flooring?

Is It Time to Replace Your Raised Access Flooring?
Your data or communications center’s raised access flooring is a lifesaver. It makes maintaining your electrical, data, and HVAC infrastructure infinitely easier. It improves airflow around and through your valuable equipment. It makes installing new equipment a much simpler and faster process. Unfortunately, it also has an expiration date. Raised access flooring systems are built…
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