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we encourage involvement of contractors as early as possible . This is important because throughout projects , costs go up and schedules fall apart . But for some reason , this issue is not highlighted as it should be . This is what we do for our clients . And we have produced very good results recently in New York City .”
As a practical example , Tallal highlights how the business was able to speed up leadtimes impressively through the conversion of two hotels into student housing . “ The first challenge is that they require different zoning permissions . However , through our methods , from closing of the building sale to occupancy , the projects took seven months each . Typically , seven months is how long the early design phase takes . That ’ s why we ’ re different .”
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