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Business
Can You Control Health Care Costs?
GB Financial Services, LLC
Turns out the answer is "yes" - if you do your homework.
Personnel Management
Does Your Field Time Card Work For You?
Construction Business Coaching
Designed properly, your time card can become an invaluable tool to track labor production, field quantities installed, company and rental equipment usage, and materials consumed on the job
Figure 1: This example time card shows the work broken down exactly as the estimator bid the job.
Rental
A Cultural Comparison Between Rental Businesses in the U.S. and Ireland
Detmer Consulting Inc.
I've been to well over one thousand rental companies in North America and every now and then I get the rare treat to venture to far-away places. This summer I had the pleasure to visit several rental businesses in Ireland.
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It's Time to Increase Rates
GB Financial Services, LLC
Steps to raising your rental rates and improving your bottom line and cash flow.
Increase Rates
Construction Safety
Why Safety Programs Fail to Deliver
Timmons Group
The truth is there are a lot of moving parts to a well-designed program and the components all need to mesh.
Invest in quality personal protective equipment (PPE), then teach your crews how to use it, how to care for it and to be conscientious about it.
Personnel Management
Tips to Keep Employees Disciplined to Follow Systems
The Contractor's Business Coach
Four tricks to help keep employees following the systems you need to keep your business successful
If you are going to grow your business, keep it profitable, and free yourself from it, your team is going to have to stay disciplined to the best practice systems.
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Construction Safety
12 Tips to Survive Another "Nuclear Summer"
Timmons Group
How construction companies and their workers can plan for and endure the annual "flat-iron" heat season.
Business Services
What Should Your Overhead Mark-Up Include?
Construction Business Coaching
Overhead must include your annual costs for management and administrative expenses, salaries and burden/fringes, office and shop expenses and more
To make more money, you must track and keep updated accurate job costs.
Business Services
A Case Study in Equipment Costing
GB Financial Services, LLC
In the first in a two-part series, we look at a real-world situation a contractor is facing and offer recommendations on how to address it.
Business Services
Grooming Your Replacement
The Contractor's Business Coach
Grooming a replacement allows business owners to leave the business in the hands of someone you have spent years preparing for the responsibility
Spend time grooming and training your replacement to make the transition smoother.
Forms
Formwork Mortar Leakage
American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC)
A concrete contractor recently had a close-out meeting with the Owner and Construction Manager, and was be surprised by the demand for a reduction in payment based on form leakage.
Figure 1 Fins and offsets can be the result of form leakage. But fins and offsets have tolerances as described in ACI 117 and ACI 301. Fins and offsets are allowed but the height of each is controlled by the tolerances. If form leakage were prevented, there should be no tolerances. The fact that the tolerances are included in both ACI 117 and ACI 347 means that form leakage is acceptable but is limited by these ACI documents.
Repair & Rehabilitation Products
What You Need to Know About Plastic Shrinkage Cracking
KB Engineering LLC
Understanding the causes of plastic shrinkage cracks, monitoring jobsite conditions, and implementing precautionary measures can prevent or at least minimize these unsightly cracks from occurring.
What You Need to Know About Plastic Shrinkage Cracking
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