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Business Services
How to Evaluate Your Construction Business and Make It Your Dream Business
Construction Business Coaching
Take a look at where your construction business is, decide where you want to be in five or 10 years, and then determine what steps to take
Most businesses never get to the next level because the owner is not willing to make the necessary changes to make it happen. What factors are holding your company back from becoming a better business, growing or making a profit?
Business
How Construction Contractors Can Get the Most Out of 2016
GB Financial Services, LLC
For a successful New Year, plan ahead, manage cash flow and keep an eye on conditions likely to impact the industry.
Business Services
Improving Your Construction Office Efficiency
The Contractor's Business Coach
Understaffed front offices and insufficient technology are the most common causes of office driven field delays
Invest money in your front office tools and space. Never underestimate the havoc front office inefficiency will have on your field costs and therefore your bottom line.
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How to Start a Safety Program
Timmons Group
Leadership commitment, customization, written program mean success.
Concrete
Whatever Happened to Engineering Judgment?
American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC)
When a test result falls outside of the specified limits or other specification requirements aren’t met, engineers typically have three options for dealing with such noncompliance issues.
Business Services
The Warming Trend of Insulating Basements – Truths and Myths
Concrete Foundations Association (CFA)
The Concrete Foundations Association explains the most important information for understanding the requirements for insulating concrete foundations and the options that may be pursued.
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Curing Part I – Why cure?
KB Engineering LLC
Curing is the action taken by the contractor to maintain the moisture and temperature conditions in freshly placed concrete. Curing promotes the chemical hydration of the cementitious materials so the potential properties of the mixture may develop.
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Business Services
How to Attract Employees to Your Construction Company
Construction Business Coaching
To attract great people, every construction company, large and small, must commit to creating great places to work
To find and retain great people, companies must have a proactive and aggressive employee development program.
Construction Safety
Cold Weather Dress Tips for Outdoor Construction Workers
Timmons Group
If you truly expect to protect your people, you need to be taking a much wider perspective than simply buying heavier winter coats.
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Concrete
Understanding ACI 117 Tolerance Language
American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC)
“I have a beam and a column, what ACI 117 tolerances apply where?” To make it easier to discuss, we developed a graphical approach using an elevation and plan view of a beam and column similar to what callers see on the construction drawings.
In this view, beams, girders and slabs (floors) are the horizontal structural members, while columns and walls are the vertical members.
Repair & Rehabilitation Products
Rethinking Concrete Repair
A new concrete repair code is changing the way concrete contractors and specifiers approach their work.
The Guide to the Code Requirements for Evaluation, Repair, and Rehabilitation of Concrete Buildings provides user-friendly flowcharts that illustrate key decisions that must be made, such as determining material properties during structural evaluation.
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The Case for Quality and Service Over Low Bid on Construction Projects
Construction Business Coaching
89% of construction owners and developers surveyed said they would pay more for quality and service
Ninety-five percent of the owners surveyed stated quality and service matters when selecting contractors, subcontractors and suppliers. Eighty-nine percent stated construction owners and developers will pay more for quality and service.
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