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Construction Professionals’ Refusal To Get Vaccinations Raises Alarms

Being classified as “essential workers” along with medical personnel assured construction professionals what we do is valued. We are valued. But even though we were among the first to be eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations, the percentage of construction workers getting the vaccination remains low. Promoting Vaccinations Among Construction Professionals Construction companies that want their workers […]

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Construction Safety Programs Can Lower Insurance Expenses

1 Comment / News / David Mineer

Risk management is the process of identifying, evaluating, and controlling threats. These risks can be dangers to your company, personnel, or financial well-being. They can be natural disasters, for which you can assign probability ratios. Security threats and on-the-job accidents are risks you can minimize or even eliminate with strategic management. Construction safety is a

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Construction Industry Payroll Issues

Leave a Comment / News / David Mineer

Thousands of dollars are spent every year resolving payroll problems. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, it’s safe to say the way we’re managing payroll is insane. Construction industry businesses need to make changes to how we document and track hours worked. 5 Steps

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Taxes and Public Contractors

Leave a Comment / News / David Mineer

“Public contractor” means a person…has entered or is attempting to enter into a contract for the provision of goods or performance of services with a governmental entity. –LawInsider Data from 2020 is automatically discounted because the year itself was lost in space, business-wise. It was a financial survival-of-the-fittest situation at best. Public contractors are looking

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Construction Industry Material Prices

Leave a Comment / News / David Mineer

It’s not just construction industry news. Hardly a day passes without national and local news referencing the 2021 soaring materials prices. Our country’s financial well-being is driven by building permit applications, infrastructure construction, and more. The construction industry is a figurehead for economic measurables in this country. Percentages of Construction Industry Materials Increases Numbers don’t

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Using BIM, VDC to Improve Construction Bidding and Planning

Leave a Comment / News / David Mineer

BIM = Business information modelingVDC = Virtual design and construction Seven years ago, we in the construction industry pondered the pros and cons of BIM software. BIM was new-to-us at that point but the concept – and the term – was introduced in 1992. Today there’s no doubt there are many advantages to business information

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Tips To Minimize Construction Business Hurricane Losses

Leave a Comment / News / David Mineer

If you’re not a boat captain or crew, you probably don’t pay attention to NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) announcements until May. That’s when NOAA issues its hurricane season prediction for the year. Apparently, the 2021 storm season will not be as cruel as 2020. But it will be very active. Again. The prediction is

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Using up-to-Date Construction Cost Data

1 Comment / News / David Mineer

As we get older, it’s difficult to transition from some of the basic business principles and construction cost data we followed from other decades. They worked, time and again. Many of them aren’t working now. If you’re estimating costs using the same formula your company used in 2019, it’s just like assuming you can get a

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Condo Collapse Could Have Been Avoided

1 Comment / News / David Mineer

Three more bodies were found July 5 after the demolition of the Champlain Towers South multifamily structure in Surfside, FL. As of that day, there were still 118 bodies missing in the rubble of the condo collapse. Documents released by the town of Surfside revealed a 2018 engineering report warned of major structural damage at the

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Materials Tracking for Construction Firms

1 Comment / News / David Mineer

Construction firms using software for materials tracking have a competitive edge. And during the pandemic, one company managed supply chain challenges in such a way it increased productivity. New York City’s HAP Construction shares steps to protect against contract loopholes for a more successful project lifecycle. 9 Steps Construction Firms Can Use The construction company

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