July 2022

What Every Construction Business Needs To Know About Underground Utilities

Underground or subsurface utilities are infrastructures installed below ground. They include data cables, electric lines, gas/oil pipelines, telecommunication cables, and sewer/water pipelines. Most older utility lines were installed above the ground but are often reinstalled, as are new lines, underground for added safety and aesthetics. Construction business excavations that damage underground utilities average 530,000 each …

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Construction Safety: Protecting Against Hearing Loss

Have you heard of illnesses or injuries that occur because of lifestyle choices? For example, being sedentary as a choice has many unhealthy consequences. Aging rockers with hearing loss may regret standing near a concert speaker the size of a townhouse in 1976. Still, that was a lifestyle choice. You shouldn’t need to worry about work-related …

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8 Construction Management Tips To Reduce Employee Turnover

You may feel like today’s workforce doesn’t care about working or success. It’s not that they don’t care. It’s that what they care about is different; for them, the definition of “success” is ongoing development, opportunity, and more. Here are tips for construction management teams to attract and retain talent. 1. Match Their Goals With …

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The Value of Visual Data: Construction Industry Cameras

When it comes to technology investments, if you’re a wait-and-see project manager, don’t wait too long. Your construction industry competitors are winning more bids because they are wowing project stakeholders with onsite technology like visual data equipment (construction cameras). Are construction cameras worth it? Visual data benefits like increased customer satisfaction and employee safety are …

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Construction Industry Materials and Decision-Making

Construction industry building materials can be innovative, exciting, and sustainable; clients are wowed when presented building material options. Those same materials can also be so high-priced and unattainable they jeopardize project deliverables, like completing the job within budget and on time. Architects believe many construction industry contractors don’t make decisions that are in the best …

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The Best Construction Business Investment: You

Starting a business isn’t easy for most of us. And to maintain a thriving construction business, financially and culturally, takes a bigger investment than money. If you want the right people working for you, start with becoming the right leader. They’re worth the investment and so are you. 4 Construction Business Leadership Tips “You have …

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Reducing Construction Equipment Downtime

Construction equipment maintenance is something for which we plan. Unfortunately, we must also plan for unexpected equipment maintenance and repairs. We pad our bids in the hopes we can cover project surprises and slowdowns because – no surprise here – there are always unexpected construction equipment challenges. Proactive Construction Equipment Management If you’re looking for …

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