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Project Management
5 Focus Areas to Increase Your Construction Company’s Efficiency
Reviewing and tweaking these five areas of your construction business can help increase efficiency and productivity
July 19, 2017
Every construction business is different, but these five ways to improve productivity should be on your radar if they’re not already implemented.
Project Management
Project Management Software Makes Sierra Construction’s Bidding More Profitable
Infrastructure contractor only gets the margin-targeting value of bidding software after integrating it with a project management system’s detailed cost records
July 7, 2017
Sierra Infrastructure, Woodstock, Ontario, uses estimating software that allows inputs of comprehensive unit costs by input category. Also, the project management software it adopted in 2015 makes it easier to capture the true costs of project inputs.
Project Management
7 Tips to Keep Your Construction Company Thinking from Going to the Dogs
How can we shake up our construction workers to be more active in their thinking and to think more clearly, objectively and effectively?
March 27, 2017
Even good people can fall prey to not taking the time to make good decisions, or worse, ignore important and available information that would have led them to a better decision.
Project Management
How Does Your Construction Management Style Stack Up?
Appfluence surveyed construction project managers to create a benchmark for managers to compare themselves to and find out if they are working as effectively as possible
March 27, 2017
There is no magic recipe about how to effectively manage a construction project. However, by taking pointers from experienced industry professionals, we can deduce some best practices.
Project Management
20 Tips and Best Practices for Managing Construction Projects
Construction project managers offer up their best advice for successful construction project management
March 13, 2017
At the end of the day, managing construction projects requires a technical skill set that is typically used in conjunction with a set of software tools that help things run more efficiently.
Business Services
How a Sealcoater Plans for Growth
WBE Magic Seal succeeds through expansion, diversification
March 3, 2017
Five days a week the sealcoating crews work on both residential and commercial properties, doing commercial work in the morning and residential work in the afternoon. The other two days Magic Seal does only residential sealcoating.
Seal Coating
How to Sealcoat under Deadline Pressure
Alpha Paving compresses schedule, completes 24,500 gallons in two days at Dell Diamond baseball field
March 3, 2017
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Business Services
8 Ways Construction Managers Can Motivate Their Teams
A successful project manager must strongly grasp how to keep their employees motivated; here are eight tips directly from construction project managers
February 27, 2017
Construction managers need to motivate their employees to make sure they do not simply go through the motions but ensure that they want to get the job done well.
Seal Coating
Why to Phase a Project in 27 Segments
Rose Paving
Rose Paving’s Pacific Division receives Seal & Stripe: Large Job Award for staggering production to accommodate Esplanade Shopping Center tenants
February 2, 2017
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Project Management
20 Tips for Construction Project Managers
Thirty experienced construction project managers share how they spend their time on the job, their best advice for managing their team and how they know when their team is performing to its full potential
December 5, 2016
When asked how they split their time between “managing” and “working” the most common answer Appfluence received from construction project manager respondents was an even 50/50 split.
Project Management
What the Heck is BIM? And What Can It Actually Do?
One of BIM's key values is in helping all parties -- owners, architects, engineers and constructors -- thoroughly understand a project, which removes a lot of risk
August 10, 2016
BIM models combine every bit of information about a project with a digital 3D model in a way that makes it easy to identify clashes in structural and mechanical designs or incorrect materials choices. Owners, architects, engineers and contractors who use BIM as a platform to communicate about a project dramatically streamlines the construction process.
Construction Toolbox
ForConstructionPros App of the Week: BuilderTREND
BuilderTREND is a cloud-based construction software solution that enables residential contractors to manage their businesses from anywhere and connects everyone involved with a project
July 5, 2016
Automatic updates and real-time notifications.
Striping
Affordable Striping & Sealing is in the “Yes” Business
managing jobs and employees in 24-hour Las Vegas
April 25, 2016
Shonda Decker says Affordable Striping & Sealing crews are on the job seven days a week, 24 hours a day. “We try very hard to rotate days off but it’s not unusual for the sealcoating crew to work six or seven days in a row without being off because we can have that much work,” she says.
Seal Coating
Sealcoating among “Moving” Inventory
March 1, 2016
Paradise Asphalt Maintenance crews followed four days of milling with paving, then crews cleaned and cracksealed areas a day in advance to ready them for sealcoating. Striping was generally started the day after sealcoating an area, and as soon as it was halfway done and dried Adesa began moving cars back into the newly sealed and striped area.
Construction Technology
How E-Construction Can Increase Your Efficiency and Your Bottom Line
The Iowa DOT and Manatts Construction partnered with Earthwave Technologies on a pilot project to reduce time-consuming paper shuffling
February 22, 2016
The pilot project involved an 8-mile resurfacing job on Highway 69 in Central Iowa. The first phase of the pilot was completed without telematics. The second phase used Earthwave Fleetwatcher to monitor HMA delivery trucks and two pavers used on the job.
Project Management
[QUOTABLE] How Technology Can Solve Construction’s Workforce Shortage
Two contractor site-technology managers answer the question: what do you see coming next in construction technology?
February 19, 2016
Dustin Burns, IT Director, McCownGordon Construction
Construction Technology
[QUOTABLE] Mobile Computing On Site Lets Everyone Focus on Making Money
Commercial building contractor’s site supervisors slash document-management time with cloud-based project-management software to make more time to build projects
February 19, 2016
Chandler Brooks, Project Engineer - Operations Technology, Andres Construction
Business
How to Fix a Struggling Company
Survival for Petra Paving depended on learning and implementing what it didn’t know.
January 4, 2016
Chris Tammany not only enjoys being in the field but he knows Petra Paving is a better company when he’s guiding the crew. “My forte is out in the field,” he says. “Our square-foot-per-hour is much higher when I’m out there on the job than when I’m not on the job so I need to be out there.”
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