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Coaching & Consulting

How to Navigate the Challenges of Cost and Client Loyalty

Verizon Business

Given today’s economic uncertainties, it’s understandable to adopt a cautious approach. But relying on fear alone doesn’t predict future outcomes.

For businesses already navigating slim margins, higher labor expenses worsen cash flow challenges and reduce profitability.

Rental Business

Eye On Rental: The Rental Industry is Strong & Growing

Detmer Consulting Inc.

My take on the current state of the rental industry as well as some other thoughts, opinions and suggestions.

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Financing, Insurance & Leasing

How Job-Costing Helps Construction Companies Improve Their Bottom Line

Small Business Bootcamp

Here's how implementing job-costing and fixing margins helps construction companies improve their profit margins and more.

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Contractors: Combat Bad Weather With Better Planning

ACI Asphalt Contractors Inc

In the midwestern states, depending on the weather, your season might last a few more weeks than you thought it would. However, it can also turn bad quickly, and it's better to have a plan in place ahead of time.

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Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other

Find Utilities Quickly & Confidently: Vermeer Launches New Verifier G1 Utility Locator

With simplicity and precision at its core, the Verifier G1 locator eliminates complex menus and settings, enabling crews to locate utilities quickly and confidently.

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Coaching & Consulting

How to Decommission Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)

Bluewater Battery Logistics

As the adoption of renewable energy and BESS technologies continues to grow, the need for comprehensive decommissioning and end-of-life planning will only become more critical.

Decommissioning a BESS facility is a multi-step process that requires careful planning and coordination. Before the start of work, the appropriate disposition for all materials must be defined.

Bobcat Company Extends Heavy Construction Equipment Lineup

Bobcat is adding four new large wheel loaders and two new large excavators will be available at select North American Bobcat dealerships in mid-Q2 2025.

Bobcat is expanding its existing lineup of large excavators with the new E220 and E245. These new excavators deliver the power, performance, and precision needed for the biggest job site challenges.

Coaching & Consulting

Thrive Rather Than Survive in Construction

Construction Business Coaching

Most company owners want to keep doing business the same old way, hoping to get positive results while the world and economy change around them. Even if survival is your goal, it will not be business as usual.

Thriving will take determination, a decision to change, realistic leadership, and decisive choices. Don’t just survive. Make it your goal to thrive!

Fleet Maintenance

HCSS Upgrades HeavyJob for Utility Contractor Work Order Management

Heavy Construction Systems Specialists, Inc. (HCSS)

Unlike traditional bid-build projects with defined scopes, utility contractors often operate under master service agreements (MSAs) with unit-priced rates for an indefinite period, requiring them to process large volumes of repeatable, short-cycle work.

HeavyJob’s new capabilities ensure that every completed job—whether installing gas meters, replacing power poles, or burying fiber optic lines—is logged, tracked, and invoiced with supporting documentation like photos and timecards.

Financing, Insurance & Leasing

How Subcontractors Avoid Financial Distress

There is no denying the increasing amount of competition subcontractors face — and will likely continue to face for the time being.

To prepare for this increased vetting and to protect their organization’s long-term success, subcontractors need to use times of excess capacity to analyze their existing processes, operations, and financials.

February's Nonresidential Construction Spending Was Up

Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. (ABC)

According to the Associated Builders and Contractors' analysis of data published today by the U.S. Census Bureau, nonresidential construction spending rose to the highest level on record in February 2025.

A surge in highway and street spending accounted for more than 40% of the increase.

Labor & Workforce Development

Construction's Favorite Scapegoat: Laziness

There are a lot of myths we tell ourselves in this country, about ourselves, but our favorite is the myth of laziness as an excuse for everything from labor shortages, to culture shifts, and rising costs.

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