3. Avoid Scope Creep: The term Scope Creep sounds kind of funny, but it is as dangerous as a thief stealing your wallet and you not knowing about it for days.  Scope Creep happens when an outlet is added to this room, wallpaper to that room, granite countertops in the break area, and custom colored […]

Are you Genuine, Entrepreneurial, Accountable, Rigorous and Spirited? Those are the G.E.A.R.S. that we live by at the American Companies and we want to add a full-time Assistant Site Technician and a part-time Office Administrator to our growing team! We are a design-build firm that also does real estate development and property management primarily in

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest” -Benjamin Franklin While a lot of us are sending our children off for their first day back to school, two of our site managers are getting ready to throw their caps.  Ryan Weyker and Steve Houdek are about to celebrate the completion of the yearlong ABC Project

2.  Create a Top 10: My team is really good at what they do. We have been in hundreds of facilities, we have seen all kinds of operations and we are great at creating efficient layouts for your new space. What helps us be even more and can really kick start a design, is if

American Construction Services has been named a 2019 Future 50 company by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce’s Council of Small Business Executives (COSBE). The Future 50 program, now in its 32nd year, recognizes privately-owned companies in the seven-county Milwaukee region that have been in business for at least three years and have shown significant

1.  Governmental Approvals: The most common question I am asked is “Kraig, how long will it take to complete my building project?”  My answer almost always is “Double the time it takes to get Local and State permits.”  It may seem crazy, but the actual construction is usually only about ½ of the total project