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Apps
ForConstructionPros App of the Week: BusyBusy
busybusy by Align Technologies
Use the BusyBusy mobile app to replace paper time cards and track when employees clock in and out of a construction jobsite
BusyBusy lets construction business owners see which employees have worked on a job, the amount of time each employee has spent and how much it has cost to date.
Business Services
Preventing Poor Project Leadership: Part 2
Communication before, during and after job completion is essential for project leaders
Adobe Stock 108520894 Leadership Yuttana Studio
Business Services
The Importance of On-boarding for Construction Worker Retention
On-boarding is an approach to prepare both the company and the new employee for a positive employment experience
On-boarding is an effort made by the hiring company to prepare new hires for their new work environment. Likewise, it’s also the preparation a company makes to make sure their current workers are ready to project a positive and sincere image, creating a very good first impression on new workers.
Business Services
Lean Construction for Lean Contractors: What is Lean?
Lean construction is a proactive strategy of reducing many of the contributors to poor performance and waste in the construction process
Lean construction is a proactive strategy of reducing many of the contributors to poor performance.
Business Services
Tilt-Up Concrete Association Announces Education Partners for Fall Convention
Tilt-Up Concrete Association
Construction Toolbox
Why Contractors Should Budget More for Construction Software
Implementing construction software systems - and budgeting for them - is increasingly becoming critical for construction contractors to remain competitive in the industry
Half of respondents to a Software Advice construction software prospective buyers survey are still using the pen and paper method to perform basic processes such as bidding, estimating and more, but that method can also produce less accurate data and be more time consuming than construction software.
Business
President Obama Blocks Republican Efforts to Overturn New Union Rules
Estimating & Bidding
How to Keep From Blowing Construction Bids
The Contractor's Business Coach
Estimators need to take the time to analyze historical job cost data, carefully review the project scope and properly account for all the costs of a project in order to avoid blowing a construction bid
Proper job costing, efficient review of scope and accounting for all project costs are three key elements to making sure your construction estimator does not blow a bid.
Rental
Video: Andy Studdert Aims to Embrace Change as New President of IPAF
Andy Studdert, chairman & CEO of US-based NES Rentals, was elected the new president of the International Powered Access Federation at the IPAF annual general meeting (AGM) on March 26, 2015 in Washington, D.C. succeeding Steve Couling
Video: Andy Studdert Elected New IPAF President
Business Services
Construction Industry's Unauthorized Immigrant Workforce Declining
Number of unauthorized immigrant laborers in the construction industry has declined 5% since the recession
Business Services
33 States Added Construction Jobs Between January and February 2015
Associated General Contractors of America (AGC)
Texas led the 45 states that added the most construction jobs between February 2014 and February 2015; Mississippi led the four states that lost jobs, and employment was unchanged in Delaware
Thirty-three states added construction jobs between January and February and 17 states lost jobs for the month. The map above shows employment data by state.
Apps
App of the Week: Construction Return on Investment Calculator
The Return on Investment Calculator mobile app simplifies ROI calculation for a project
The amount of money tied up to build work is the right basis for the calculation. In other words, contractors need to charge for renting out their working capital.
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