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How Celebrating Wins Motivates Your Construction Employees
The Contractor's Business Coach
One of the best ways to offset staff frustration is to celebrate the wins; an upbeat staff works harder and complains less
One of the best ways to offset staff frustration is to celebrate the wins. When your company wins a large bid, let everyone know. When your team brings a substantial project in on time and in budget, spread the word.
Business Services
How to Turn 5 Truths of Construction Progress into More Profitable Business
GB Financial Services, LLC
Construction contractors both large and small need to have a plan in place to implement construction technologies, use them to maximize jobsite efficiency and stay competitive
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Why Specialization May Be More Profitable for Construction Companies
Construction Business Coaching
Perceived experts are the first called when a customer needs a "pro" to complete a tough or special project
The only way to win profitable work today is to differentiate yourself from your competition. Becoming a known expert in something will accomplish this for your company.
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Sweeping
Seattle Ups Street Sweeping to Address Stormwater Pollution
World Sweeping Association
Because of Seattle's location on Puget Sound, the city is planning to increase its street sweeping program to $1.8 million in 2016 in an effort to reduce stormwater runoff pollution.
In 2014, the SDOT upgraded their entire fleet with seven Schwarze A9 Monsoon models, which have a 9.6 cu. yd. volumetric (8 cu. yd. usable) capacity and one mechanical broom sweeper. These sweepers are ideal for water sweeping with the higher capacity.
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Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One…Anecdotes Masquerading as Data
American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC)
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How to Effectively Manage Construction Employees to Drive Profitable Results
The Contractor's Business Coach
Owners need to maintain a balance between driving for results and helping their people succeed and grow
Owners need to maintain a balance between driving for results and helping their people succeed and grow. To do so requires them to help their people enjoy their jobs, develop their careers, and be effective in their current assignments.
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Rental
Are You Qualifying Your Customers?
Detmer Consulting Inc.
Qualifying customers is one of the most fundamental keys to a rental company’s success. Is your company doing all it can to ensure customers are able to operate the equipment they are renting?
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How Value-added Services Can Improve Your Construction Business' Bottom Line
Construction Business Coaching
Continue to offer services you're best at but explore new services, ideas or customers to become a resource and a partner for your customers now and in the future
Be more than a service provider. Be a resource and a partner in your customer's future. When you offer more than the lowest price and the minimum required, your business will grow and make more money.
Concrete Equipment & Products
Ground Penetrating Radar Can Save Money and Avoid Hazardous Conditions on Jobsites
Geophysical Survey Systems (GSSI)
A few firms that provide concrete scanning services weigh in on the critical importance of locating embedded and or buried obstructions by scanning for these features using ground penetrating radar (GPR).
Figure 1 – GPR used to evaluate concrete slab
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The Value of Developing Young Talent in Construction
The Contractor's Business Coach
A handful of weeks spent mentoring someone on-the-job can have an amazing impact over the long haul
Developing talent is the best approach for staffing your business regardless of what position you are staffing for.
Concrete Equipment & Products
Is There a Future for Fabric-Formed Concrete Structures?
This is Part 2 of a two-part article on the use of flexible formworks for forming concrete structures. Part 1 appeared in the February/March 2016 issue of Concrete Contractor and introduced this unique method of forming concrete.
Figure 1. Exterior view of the Schultz Residence .
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Formed Finish Not a Structural Concern
Concrete Foundations Association (CFA)
The Concrete Foundations Association explains the references supporting the decisions to form cast-in-place concrete with any material and why aluminum is not a structural concern when used as the form.
Lines formed by the bubbling and subsequent movement of hydrogen at the interface of new, untreated aluminum forms and concrete prior to initial set are commonly misunderstood as cracks. This wall is more than fifteen years old and exposed throughout its duration with no protective coating. It is a yard wall formed for the sole purpose of pre-treating new aluminum forms, a process they no longer use due to manufacturer pre-treatments.
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