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Looking up For me, there's that ongoing theme of the small time frame. We usually have fve to six weeks to build out. This year we started doing remodels, where were basically conducted a demo of the entire store. When we do fixtures, we put new ones into the remodels. I've seen it done in a day. This is the kind of thing that helps keep the stress level down. During the entire construction process you have to trust that your contractors are telling you the right thing. If you don't, you get managers freaking out because they don't know the construction process. It helps keep everything calm. We're trying to do it during the week, so we're getting two weekends of sales back in and they get this beautiful new store. They're remerchandising in a day, so we have to make sure the tile and fooring is there in enough time. If not, it can set "We have six brands in different niches of specialty building materials. … We want to keep the teams in sync. We pride ourselves on having so much to offer that we really can be fexible and adaptable." – Susan Foster-Goodman, Parex USA back construction a day, which can set back sales a day. It's really complicated when the stores are already open with all remodels. That's my challenge. I have to make sure everything falls into line perfectly. I don't want to get a call that a chandelier isn't there. If I do, I'm driving to Austin [Texas] overnight to get one. And we just started doing ADA stuff. That was put into the remodels, too. CCR: Let's talk ADA. How is it impacting what you do? Karen MacCannell, McIntosh Group: One of the biggest things we are doing right now is educating people about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It's something that was passed almost 20 years ago, and yet we have people in our industry saying, "Oh my God, where did this come from?" 60 CommerCial ConstruCtion & renovation — September : OctOber 2013