SURVIVING CONSTRUCTION

A DPN SIGNATURE SERVICE

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

If backhoes and bulldozers are looming on your horizon, we can help.

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 insights on practical solutions and tools for communities, business districts and businesses to overcome threats and challenges posed by construction projects. For more than twenty 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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

SERVICES AND PRODUCTS

Surviving Construction team members share first-hand experience and insights gained from their work in the field.

Services can be tailored to provide additional help and resources to put communities, organizations and businesses on the fast track in efforts to sustain commerce and mitigate the adverse impacts of construction.

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Don't wait.

Maximize the time leading up to the construction project to plan and prepare.

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Get involved. Stay involved.

Provide opportunities for stakeholders and residents to get involved, and challenge them to “step up” and be part of a historic project.

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Establish mutual goals and priorities.

Embrace the the fact that it’s in everyone’s best interest to complete a quality project within a timeframe that recognizes the needs of all stakeholders.

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Learn from others.

Learn from the experiences of other businesses, districts and communities that have completed major construction projects to apply and adapt what works, and to avoid common pitfalls and mistakes.

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Plan your work. Work your plan.

Be pro-active, identify issues, anticipate challenges, troubleshoot problems, devise a plan, and work the plan.

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Make history!

Focus on the end product and seize on the rare opportunity to create a quality project and “look” that will help to define the district and community for 20, 30 or even 40 or more years into the future.