Contractors settle for small projects in Portland area
Daily Journal of Commerce (Portland, OR), Aug 23, 2010 by Daniel Savickas
Many young people these days are moving to Portland and choosing to patronize businesses near their residences. Developers and owners of small businesses are responding to this trend by neighborhoods’ available commercial buildings for tenant improvement projects.
The construction industry, meanwhile, has suffered from a lack of big, private projects. And although renovations of existing commercial spaces may not be much work, many contractors say small jobs are better than the alternative – none.
Randy Rogers of Randy Rogers Plumbing LLC is performing plumbing work on a former church at Northeast 17th Avenue and Killingsworth Street. The space is being renovated to suit Podnah’s, a new barbecue restaurant.
“We’ve had to lay off a lot of people. We had the potential to be as big as any job needed us to be, but there isn’t any work.” Rogers said. “This job is about a week’s worth of work for a three-man crew. It’s not a big job, but if it wasn’t for this we’d be sitting at home right now.”
Few large projects may be taking place in the Portland-metro area nowadays, but smaller projects seem to be popping up all around town.
“We’re doing quite a few tenant improvement projects. It’s making up quite a bit of our business right now,” said Cory Riedel, senior project manager for Bremik Construction. “We’re definitely doing more small jobs than we were doing a few years ago, but that’s the nature of the beast with the economy.”
Bremik recently completed a project to transform and add to the former Arthur Cole Candy Co
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Crash dieting slows you down. If you don’t eat enough food to fuel your body just to survive (basal metabolic rate), your body’s metabolism slows down to make up for it. Your body’s additional need for energy to fuel physical activity (resting metabolic rate) slows even further when your body lacks fuel. The result is that the body conserves energy and burns fat at a slower rate when crash diets are used.
Long Term Effects
The loss of lean tissue and the slowdown of the body’s metabolic rate during prolonged crash dieting make it harder for people to maintain the weight they lost because now the body needs fewer calories because they are smaller and fatter than before! And, when body weight is re-gained, it is typically fat that replaces the lost muscle mass. One can certainly see that the result of this vicious cycle of lost lean tissue – reduced energy needs – body fat gain is long term weight problems and endless dieting.
Patience pays off over quick weight loss when it comes to losing body fat for several reasons:
Reducing calories gradually preserves your hard earned muscle and gives you the energy you need to burn even more fat.
You’ll preserve your body’s ability to process oxygen to help burn fat for fuel.
You’ll maintain strength and stamina when you lose body fat at a moderate pace.
You’ll have a much better chance of getting the nutrients you need when you eat more food and choose wisely instead of depriving your body of the nutrition it needs for good health.
Healthy, well-nourished bodies look better, so you will achieve your goal after all, when you take it slow.
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