January 2011 Archive Page 1
Retail and Restaurant Trends for 2011:
The U.S. Census Bureau reported this month that retail and food service spending increased 6.6% from 2009 to 2010. Davis Wince believes several hot retail and restaurant trends, ranging from new tech to re-imagining old concepts, will continue to help these numbers improve throughout 2011.
Retail Healthcare Clinics: the Customer is in the Driver’s Seat
Consumers “are shifting their demand for healthcare away from expensive, conventional physician offices with limited hours to affordable and convenient retail clinics.” These trends indicate a preference for market- and consumer-driven options such as affordable, convenient retail health care clinics over the traditional physician’s office, often bogged down in massive paper work and long waits for appointments.
Runaway Architects: How Much Did You Say that Would Cost?
While the project owner may see “design” as a potential weakness because of feared added costs, architects view “design” as one of the determining factors of success, a means of containing costs and improving efficiencies throughout the lifecycle of a building. Davis Wince’s use of Revit® in the Building Information Modeling process helps improve communication between designers and builders and permits us to resolve critical questions virtually, before spending money on the building process.
