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Keep Your Construction Master Schedule Relatively Unchanged to Preserve Your Bottom Line
The Contractor's Business Coach
Think through and make advanced decisions on how your projects need to be staffed day by day
Analyze your historical job cost data and adherence to past schedules. Build detailed project schedules based on past performance. Your master company schedule will suffer far fewer changes - which improves your bottom line.
Apps
ForConstructionPros App of the Week: Document Maker
Construction contractors can use the Document Maker mobile app to create and edit documents including those for business, marketing, employment, thank yous and more
Documents can be fully customizable with different fonts, styles and sizes as well as editable text color and background color. Documents can also be formatted with bullets and numbers. In addition to text, the app allows users to insert photos into documents.
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How Construction Contractors Can Best Coordinate with Other Contractors
Nine rules of coordination that can assist your effort to be well prepared, well organized and prepare your crews to be efficient and profitable
As a professional contractor take the initiative to reach out and coordinate with other contractors…even if they do not. You will not always “win,” but you will find greater long-term success as you, too, become more experienced in asking, persuading, coaxing and negotiating important changes in work efforts.
Construction Safety
Risk Management: Safety First
Risk management is essentially the effort you take as a contractor or construction leader to limit, reduce or eliminate any construction effort that would pose a safety risk
Prevention in the form of educating, reminding, and having needed safety resources and safe working equipment and tools can reduce your risk ten-fold. But, we need to clearly communicate safety and be consistent in practicing what we are preaching about safety.
Training & Education
Plan to Attend the 4th Annual School of Construction Expo
Pittsburg State University
The SOC Expo will be held April 6th, 2016 at the Kansas Technology Center in Pittsburg, Kan.
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Business Services
First-Time Attendees Up 36% at 2016 CSDA Convention
Concrete Sawing & Drilling Association (CSDA)
An enthusiastic crowd of industry professionals, including an impressive number of first-time attendees, gathered in Palm Desert, California to hear record-setting aviator Dick Rutan deliver his inspirational keynote at CSDA’s 2016 Convention & Tech Fair.
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What Do You Need to Know About Construction Lien Waivers?
Levelset
Lien waivers are exchanged so routinely on construction projects and are so closely tied to payment; it is important to understand how they work
A lien waiver is a document commonly exchanged among parties in the construction industry as part of the payment process. The party receiving payment signs a lien waiver (often at the request of the party making payment) in exchange for payment.
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27 States Added Construction Jobs in February
'In most of the country construction continues to outpace other industries in adding jobs'
Hawaii added the highest percentage of new construction jobs during the past year, followed by Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. North Dakota lost the highest percent and total number of construction jobs. Other states that lost jobs for the year include Alaska, Wyoming, West Virginia, Kansas, Mississippi and Pennsylvania.
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6 Steps to 'Pre-Con' Your Way to Greater Profits
Done correctly, thoroughly and consistently, the Pre-Con process can strengthen your profitability on every project you win
While Pre-Con is a term most associated with construction companies, the principles behind this important building phase are important for any organization engaged with the construction industry.
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Concrete 2029: A Visioning Workshop
American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC)
What will the in-place construction industry look like in 2029?
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Construction Toolbox
Don't Forget to Focus on Preventing Less Extreme Injuries on the Construction Jobsite
Preventing fatal construction accidents is vital but don't overlook prevention of non-fatal injuries and accidents on the construction jobsite
It's not just the big accidents — collapses, falls from roofs, vehicle/equipment accidents, etc. — that we need to be proactively preventing. In addition, construction business owners, foremen and laborers need to be aware of and working to prevent those accidents and safety fails that cause more minor or less fatal injuries
Business Services
The Making of a Leader: Steps to Develop a General Superintendent
Great generals superintendents can make your company a lot of money, help struggling field leaders to improve and further your customer satisfaction with hard to please customers
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