BJG Blog - Part 2

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This is the blog of BJG Architecture + Engineering. We are a design firm made up of passionate, responsive and fun people. We are headquartered in Reno, NV with offices in Las Vegas, NV and Pleasanton, CA.

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A Summer of Alternative Transportation

Posted on September 22, 2008 - by John

Green

I have been carpooling with Boise and Kara for about a year now. I have also been riding my bike to work in the summer since my intern days. This summer I decided to keep track of how I get to work everyday. I created an excel sheet to tabulate all my modes of transportation and the different combinations of carpooling. The spreadsheet I created calculates miles accumulated by each mode of transportation, gallons of gasoline burned, money saved, and pounds of CO2 not emitted.

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Nevada Business Journal Roundtable

Posted on September 18, 2008 - by Pete

BJG

Yesterday, I participated in a roundtable sponsored by the Nevada Business Journal (NBJ). This was a group of leaders from prominent engineering firms in the State of Nevada. This is the 3rd or 4th of these that I have done and it was really interesting how different this one was from past roundtables. Two years ago, the only thing everyone talked about was how hard it was to find the people we need to turn out the work. Last year, people were still cautiously optimistic. This year, everyone was talking about marketing, how to deal with low ball competitors and how to improve moral after layoffs.

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Make Marketing Fun

Posted on September 9, 2008 - by Teresa

BJG

I attend events as often as I can for ULI (Urban Land Institute), NAIOP (National Association of Industrial and Office Properties), CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) and a few others. Often one of the first things someone will ask when chatting is, “so are you in business development?” These days almost everyone should be answering yes to that question. For some, business development is their primary role and for others like me, we balance business development with our other responsibilities which are often project and office management.

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September Engaged Employee

Posted on September 9, 2008 - by Elliott

Community

With everything that Kim has going on (planning a wedding, Guitar Hero champion, BJG), you’d think she wouldn’t have time for much else. Not the case! kim volunteers her time at McQueen to help out the volleyball team. Great job Kim!

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Cost vs. Value

Posted on September 5, 2008 - by Pete

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BJG

We recently submitted a proposal for a project of a type with which we are very familiar. I thought (and still think) that our fee was very fair and was the appropriate fee given the amount of time necessary to perform the tasks in order to assure that our client had a successful experience. Three firms of similar size and expertise provided fees. Our fee was in the middle. We were 10% lower than the third firm but we were 40% higher than the firm that gave the lowest fee.