Justice, Just For Girls Retail Floor, Charlotte, N.C.

At a Justice, Just for Girls retail store under construction in Charlotte, N.C., Jason Burke and his small crew toss colored confetti as high in the air as the store’s high ceiling will allow. The confetti — 1/4-inch acrylic latex chips — lands in random patterns on the still-wet coated concrete floor.

“The higher the ceiling the better,” says Jeff Sledge, project manager at Management Resource Systems, the High Point, N.C., general contractor that is building the Charlotte store. “They’ll throw it as high as they can to increase the randomness of the way it falls.”

By the time Burke and his crew from Columbus, Ohio-based CPI Industrial Co. check out of their motel at the end of the week, the hard, glossy finish looks festive and welcoming — but it will also be easy to maintain. Store managers will love that.