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Is It Important to Establish Good Communications with Your Clients? You Bet It Is!  Busy contractors spend the better part of their day out in the field where they work more with tools than with people. During a hectic day, client communications can easily fall by the wayside, leading to poor client relationships and disagreements.  Point is, while Read Full Article

Goin’ Mobile: The Benefits of Mobile Construction Technology  “I can pull up by the curb. I can make it on the road. Goin’ mobile. I can stop in any street and talk with people that we meet. Goin’ mobile – The Who  Pay a visit to any construction site and you’re likely to witness mobile technology Read Full Article

Busting the Most Common Recruitment Agency Myths  Recruitment is an incredibly important part of any company. After all, bringing top talent on board is what keeps your construction business growing and moving forward.  Being in the staffing industry, however, we’ve overheard more than our fair share of misconceptions or, as we like to call them, myths.  We all understand that recruiting agencies Read Full Article

Put on Those Hard Hats, Ladies!  One of the major tasks in nearly every industry today is realizing gender equality. After all, it’s been proven that gender diversity offers huge advantages in the workplace.  True, a number of industries have made noteworthy progress in gender diversity; however, many continue to straggle behind. And the construction industry fits into this latter group.   The typical stereotype for a construction site worker is an ogling, baggy trousered macho-man. Men are bigger and stronger than women Read Full Article

Yes, Architects and Designers Are More Important Than Ever  Let’s not sugarcoat things. The past eight to nine months have been chaotic, to say the least. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the globe, the state of the world was identified as uncertainty, confusion and downright scary.   In addition to the anxiety we have Read Full Article

Don’t Just Fill the Position . . . Hire Employees for the Future  The outbreak of COVID-19 has forced organizations into perhaps the most significant social experiment in the future of work in action, with work from home and social distancing policies radically changing the way we work and interact. But the impact on Read Full Article

In today’s competitive (and pandemic-shaped) job market, finding and hiring the ideal job candidate can prove to be quite difficult. That’s why many companies are turning to professional recruitment and search firms to help them recruit and hire the right people for their open job positions. Should you do Read Full Article

There Are Statistics and Then There Are Statistics “Statistics are like a drunk with a lamp post: used more for support than illumination.” ͂    Winston Churchill The same thing could probably be said about construction statistics. We’re aware of overall trends, but statistics, when employed as a supporting point, Read Full Article

Building a new home is a milestone in one’s life. So, it’s important to have a dependable construction firm direct the homebuilder from one step to the next, and even make the process enjoyable, too. One of the first decisions the potential new homebuilder needs to make is which Read Full Article

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”                                                                                     . . . George Bernard Shaw Client communication. It’s a decisive factor in any construction job, and perhaps the easiest thing to get wrong. Effective communication is a crucial aspect of most any business, Read Full Article

Labor productivity is a vital component of any building project. Without it, projects are delayed, and budgets quickly become overwhelmed. That’s is why it’s important that you make certain all your contract workers are singing from the same hymn sheet in terms of your construction project vision including any Read Full Article

Do you know of anyone who has considered a career in the construction industry, but were disheartened by what some people see as a dead-end career? If they’ve heard there’s no future in construction, then he/she would have heard one of the many common myths about the industry. The Read Full Article

You often hear of building with concrete and steel, but what about concrete or steel? Whoa, there’s a choice? Sure is. But how do they stack up against one another as building materials for the 21st century? If you’re planning a new structure, you’ve likely wondered which is best Read Full Article

As we go into 2019, it’s time to take a good look at construction industry trends and predictions and see which ones are shaping up. Staying on top of new and up-and-coming trends in the construction industry not only helps keep your company from falling behind, but it helps Read Full Article

As we go into 2019, it’s time to take a good look at construction industry trends and predictions and see which ones are shaping up. Staying on top of new and up-and-coming trends in the construction industry not only helps keep your company from falling behind, but it helps Read Full Article

From using your smartphone to aerial drones mapping and surveying the job site, the construction industry is exploding into new territories with the implementation of technology today. We have transformed one of the largest industries in the U.S., turning it from one of the slowest growing segments into one Read Full Article

So, you’re having problems with gaining efficiencies in your construction projects? Few things can turn a routine construction project into a drawn-out ordeal quicker than a loss of efficiency. Just take a peek at one of the biggest construction overruns in history. Everyone in the industry knows about the Read Full Article

Let’s face it. Is there anything more decisive to your business than accurate construction cost estimating? Guess right and you could make a tidy profit on a given project. Guess wrong and you may lose money on that same project by overspending on supplies and contractors. It’s really tough Read Full Article

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. –Douglas Adams, English author Let’s begin our discussion by saying that the construction schedule is like the Bible for many project managers. Why so? It serves as the starting point of actual fact and guidebook Read Full Article

Why You Should Use a Construction Manager Why select a construction manager for your next project? Put simply, the key issue is “which ‘side of the table’ do you want your builder to sit on?” Let’s first keep in mind that while some people use the terms general contractor Read Full Article

The Bottom Line in Avoiding Significant Construction Delays   Project delays and are a significant issue in the construction business. Not only do they impact your present-day work, but they can affect impending projects as everything gets pushed back. Resources get spread thin, estimates are thrown off and your Read Full Article

Construction Safety: Protecting Against the Fatal Four in the Construction Industry Let’s face it. Working in construction can be dangerous. As of March 2017, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 6,882,000 people were employed in the construction industry. This is right at 4% of total employment in the U.S. Read Full Article

Mitigating the Costs of Changes During Construction To paraphrase the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, change is the only constant in construction projects. Let’s face it, change isn’t always bad, but on a construction project, it usually isn’t good either. Changes and subsequent change orders can wreak havoc on a construction Read Full Article

Design-Build and Why You Should Use It Q: What did the pyramids, the Parthenon and the Pentagon all have in common? A: They were all built by the same method: Design-Build. So, what exactly is Design-Build? First, we’ll need to travel back 5000 years in time to ancient Egypt, Read Full Article