What Should Be in a Contractor’s Disaster Recovery Plan?
Industry veterans share their best tips for creating an effective disaster recovery plan.
Contingency Planning: How to Expect the Unexpected
Contingency planning is a critical, yet often neglected aspect of protecting a business. Neglecting to thoroughly prepare for the unexpected exposes companies and individual owners to the risks of financial losses, legal conflicts or even business failure.
How to Ensure Quality in Construction
Quality is about follow-through and compliance, but complex processes and deliverables can make that challenging. Establishing clear expectations at the project’s outset, conscientious implementation of all training, and processes and with regular touchpoints with personnel are the path to success.
Four Questions to Prepare Your Team for Success in 2020
Much of a construction company's success is due to its human capital. Leaders benefit from understanding an organization is only as strong as its team. To grow an organization, construction executives must invest in and grow the individuals in their organizations.
Combating COVID-19 Through Community Outreach
Given the present construction climate as a result of COVID-19, the construction industry must consider philanthropic commitments at this time, and how contractors can assist the greater community.
Advanced Work Packaging: A Pathway to Predictable Projects
This collaborative approach to capital projects puts owner organizations on a constraint-free path of construction. While not new, the concept of advanced work packaging is gaining momentum in the industry and delivering more predictable outcomes.
Five Ways Timekeeping Software Can Save Contractors Money
With so many other tasks to manage, timekeeping may not seem like a priority. In reality, staffing costs are directly tied to profitability. This makes it worthwhile to look for ways to streamline the process and make it as efficient and accurate as possible.
The Ultimate Test of Leadership
Now, more than ever, it is critical that no one in the construction industry compromises performing work safely. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we know that we must take a time out, assess our [...]
