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Business
Driving Down Field Costs
The Contractor's Business Coach
Learn the set of construction project management and construction project scheduling tools every contractor should be using to minimize field costs and how to eliminate everything that slows down crews - eliminates re-work - and effectively manage clients.
May 21, 2009
Business
Are Indirect Labor Costs Killing Your Cost Competitiveness?
The Contractor's Business Coach
Reducing indirect labor costs is another set of financial management skills that will help general contractors run their operations more effectively and add to the bottom line.
May 11, 2009
Business Services
Partnership Tool Box
The Contractor's Business Coach
Take these seven partnership tips with you as rare is the person who has not been involved in some form of partnership
April 8, 2009
Concrete Mixers
Jobsite Mixing
Jobsite mixing leaves the contractor in control of batch size, timing and details of the mix such as additives and color.
March 6, 2009
The Boxer 427W compact utility loader with cement bowl attachment allows a contractor to mix up to 200 pounds of concrete and drive it where it needs to go. At 36 inches wide, this compact utility loader can access many areas a larger machine cannot.
Concrete Equipment & Products
Preserving Historic Structures
Historic preservation of concrete structures requires an informed approach
January 21, 2009
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Business
Production Management Systems that Keep You from Busting Budgets
The Contractor's Business Coach
The newest of the six critical systems for running a construction business: Production Management.
December 1, 2008
Sweeping
Raising red flags
C&L Sweeper Service and Contract Sweepers & Equipment share job costs to improve bottom line.
October 17, 2008
'We've always felt that you can't manage what you can't measure, so we've made a real effort to track our costs,' says Gerry Kesselring, Contract Sweepers & Equipment. 'It's really not difficult. You start simply, and as you go you'll get more and more detailed. Job costing just becomes a way of running the business. It's a matter of having the discipline to do it. You have to be dedicated and you have to make sure you're putting your costs in the right spots.'
Business
Relationships Pay Dividends
GB Financial Services, LLC
A solid partnership with equipment suppliers can keep the profits coming in.
July 11, 2008
Business Services
Partnership Horror Stories
The Contractor's Business Coach
Four stories, five lessons.
July 8, 2008
Personnel Management
Eliminating Lost Crew Time with Short-Range Crew Activity Plans
The Contractor's Business Coach
A simple little planning tool that will go a long ways towards eliminating lost time.
June 9, 2008
Project Management
Collaborative Project Management Systems
Effectively organize and track communication and documents of a construction project.
April 7, 2008
Theft Prevention
Don’t Let Theft Walk Away with Your Profits
Equipment Today
February 20, 2008
Business
A Word from Your Material Supplier
The Contractor's Business Coach
A discussion about the wild price swings of materials and how contractors should adjust to them.
January 3, 2008
Estimating & Bidding
Proper Estimating
Concrete Foundations Association (CFA)
The key to project success on concrete foundations can be achieved through thorough estimating practices.
December 14, 2007
Seal Coating
Orchestrating sealcoating
California's Competitive Asphalt Coatings orchestrates 4 million-sq.-ft. job in five days.
October 19, 2007
Through planning and orchestrating crew movement, Competitive Asphalt Coatings applied 80,000 gals. of uncut sealer in five days and striped 15,000 new parking stalls over three weeks.
Construction Technology
Job Costing: The Necessary Evil
The Contractor's Business Coach
The challenge is to design a system that delivers the goods without being overbearing.
September 19, 2007
Project Management
Trends in Online Project Management
Understanding the trends affecting online project management systems allows organizations to make informed decisions and grow more profitably.
August 15, 2007
Construction Technology
Construction Cameras
To address inefficient aspects of the construction process, contractors have begun to implement jobsite cameras that allow users to visually stay up-to-date on the progress of a job.
July 19, 2007
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