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November 2020: On Your Radar
November 2020: On Your Radar features renovations to a large-scale tower, a new three-story hospital, & more!...
Michigan Students First
Builders Exchange of Michigan: What updates have you recently made to your school’s facilities? How have these changes...
Flexibility in the Classroom
By Jeff Hoag, AIA, LEED AP BD + C, GMB Architecture + Engineering It wasn't very long ago that each room in a school building had a singular purpose: instruction happened in the classroom, research and reading happened in the library, and the...
Recycled Plastics in Construction
Approximately 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our oceans each day. Plastic is an extremely valuable resource, however, plastic pollution is an unsustainable waste of that resource. Here are 10 ways to use recycled plastics...
October 2020: On Your Radar
October 2020: On Your Radar features a new community center, a large-scale urban community, an industrial business center, & more! LARGE-SCALE GATEWAY DEVELOPMENT/ Project ID’s 2020-21AF; 2020-21D6; 2020-21D7; 2020-21D9; 2020-21DA Construction...
MP Concrete
Builders Exchange of Michigan: What does a typical day look like in your job? Violeta Perez: We own MP Concrete together, but our days look very different! I run the office, answering phones, invoicing clients, and making sure customers have a...
64th Annual Golf Outing
Thank you to our members for their generous sponsorship of our 64th Annual Golf Outing. Together, we donated $24,943 to Guiding Light’s Back to Work program! Builders Exchange presented Guiding Light with the check on Wednesday, Sept. 30. The...
Meet Becky, Construction News Reporter
Meet Becky, a Planning Stage Reporter at Builders Exchange of Michigan! You'll recognize Becky from her On Your Radar section in our newsletter, where she talks about interesting and upcoming planning projects. If you're an architect or engineer,...
Norwalk Concrete Industries
Builders Exchange of Michigan: What's the first thing you do each morning when you begin work at Norwalk Concrete Industries? Robb Smithson: I make a list of things I want to accomplish and rank them by level of difficulty. BX: What value have you...
School District Cybersecurity
In the 30+ years since Ferris Bueller memorably hacked into his high school's attendance system and reduced his absences from nine times to two, cyber threats faced by school districts have increased by orders of magnitude. While every business and...
Reduce Construction Waste
An estimated 251 million tons of construction waste is accumulated annually in the United States alone, which shows us just how important it is to reduce construction waste. Less than a third of that waste is recycled or composted, and up to 40% is...