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While recently performing my family’s weekly food shopping , I found myself marveling at the shrinking packaging of many of our staples. I noticed that the down-sizing is often accompanied by redesigned and rebranded packaging whose intention, it seems, is to disguise the lower volume and higher unit price. I began to consider whether a similar dynamic could be in effect in the commercial construction world. Is it possible that the commercial construction provider is selling services at last year’s prices but somehow packing less coffee, corn flakes or orange juice in the package? A cursory review of client expectations and industry standards reveals that in fact, quite the opposite is true. It seems that the commercial construction service provider is faced with an increasingly knowledgeable and demanding client with progressively higher expectations about the level of service purchased with their money. More often now, in addition to constructing plumb, level and square structures based on sound building techniques, the commercial construction provider is expected to: