Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by Peter Chee
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Tenant improvements can require a new company moving into an existing building to create a lot of demolition debris. In order to build out our Thinkspace executive office suites, 5.79 tons or 11,580 pounds of demolition debris was removed. The number of tons could have been much greater, but one of our goals was to [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2008 by Peter Chee
Over the past few months, I have been searching for companies, organizations, government agencies that encourage other companies to go green with their tenant improvements. One of the first places that I called was PSE (Puget Sound Energy). I talked with an Energy Management Engineer and he was happy and willing to meet me at [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Peter Chee
Once I decided that the business was going to make an impact by going LEED Certified, I spoke with my friend Stuart Mckee, former State of Washington CIO, who told me that I should look into how government could assist me in my endeavor. This triggered a whole bunch of ideas which included looking into [...]
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Posted on January 27th, 2008 by Peter Chee
Our story begins with our business needing to build out space to run our company. Our 25,000SF build-out is large and I wanted to make sure we did something special with the space. I wanted to make sure that our space was not just another run-of-mill tenant improvement project. After I started to do more [...]
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