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Surviving Construction Technical Assistance and Services

A Downtown Professionals Network Signature Service

Solutions to Survive – and Thrive – During Construction

Construction projects can threaten the livelihood of downtown and commercial business districts.

DPN’s Surviving Construction technical assistance and services offer examples and insight on practical solutions and tools for communities, business districts and businesses to overcome threats and challenges posed by construction projects. For more than fifteen years, national, state and local organizations throughout the United States have employed DPN’s Surviving Construction technical service to help communities and businesses successfully plan and prepare for major construction projects.

Getting Started

Our popular Surviving Construction Tech Visit helps mobilize communities and organizations to plan and prepare. The tech visit is orchestrated to engage stakeholders and to focus local resources on solutions and tools to effectively address project-related issues and concerns. Subjects addressed as part of the tech visit typically include:

Pre-construction Planning

Stakeholders must work together to identify and address logistical issues and business concerns – and work proactively to “troubleshoot” the project and to develop and implement solutions in advance.

Project Communications

Communication will be critical to the project’s effective staging and management. Systems must be put in place to maintain ongoing communications with the community and, especially, with businesses located in the construction project’s impact zone.

Business Assistance

Local project leaders and representatives must engage businesses and work together to  overcome challenges and enact strategies to survive – and even thrive – during the construction project.

Marketing and Promotion

Efforts to focus positive attention on the business district must be elevated. Marketing and promotion strategies to promote the business district before, during and after the project can be critical to  maintaining the district’s livelihood.

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Contact us now to learn more about Surviving Construction technical assistance and services, and how our experience can help you survive — and even thrive — during construction.

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If backhoes and bulldozers are on your horizon, are you ready?

Do you have a plan to maintain vehicular and pedestrian access to the district and businesses?

Do you have a parking plan to adequately accommodate customers, employees, residents and construction workers during the project?

Are you prepared to deal with construction and building issues such as vaulted sidewalks, buried windows and doorways, unique architectural features, and other underground “surprises?”

Do you have a strategic and comprehensive communications plan that can be readily updated at a moment’s notice and as conditions change?

Do you have a plan for deliveries to businesses located within the construction zone?

Are you prepared to deal with construction problems, including unexpected problems that will inevitably arise during the project?

Does, or will, your construction contract contain workable incentive & penalty clauses and provisions to maintain necessary access to businesses?

Do you have a solid plan to market and promote the district during the project?