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Good Shepherd Food Bank – Coffee & Collaboration

PC Construction

Last Friday, I had the pleasure of attending the Good Shepherd Food Bank (GSFB) annual Coffee & Collaboration event in Portland, Maine, with my fellow PC employee owner, Senior Project Manager Mark Donovan. This event gave us the opportunity to learn about the organization and how PC Construction can help meet their needs.

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Residential projects: 5 mistakes project managers don’t know they are making

Lets Build

Many project managers in repetitive residential projects tell us that they have to spend up to 50% of their time each week on planning. Their programme is stuck on MS Project and to update it they have to go through countless WhatsApp notifications, emails, or phone calls. They use the wrong tools.

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Women in Construction: Jeanne Bartels Wears Many Hard Hats

Pro Builder

From property and project managers, to engineers and CFOs, these women have climbed the ranks and made a name for themselves in their respective companies. Jeanne Bartels, senior project manager at McHugh Construction , is one such woman. What do you love most about your job?

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Behind the Build: Interview with Mike White, Director of Design and Construction at North Point Hospitality

Autodesk Construction Cloud

He was a banker there and came to the US and essentially bought his first hotel in the late-seventies. So, in terms of what I specialize in, My degree is in building construction and construction management. I was in the Army for nine years and developed good management and leadership skills. I did that for a couple of years.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

About Us Contact Us Advertise Press Releases Upload Artwork Via FTP -->. Bank lines of credit are lifelines for many contractors, yet convincing a bank to provide or renegotiate a line of credit is not easy. Building your case beforehand can certainly help and makes you look better in the eyes of the bank.

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Bringing your programme to the site: How to know everything and build better

Lets Build

If you are a project manager or a foreman, you know by now the headaches that tools like WhatsApp, Excel, and MS Project are causing when you try to manage projects with a lot of repetition such as hospitals, apartment blocks, and roadwork projects. siloed MS Project schedules.

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Mel Robbins Inspires on Day 2 of Viewpoint Collaborate 2018

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Robbins broke down the science behind why the 5 Second Rule works — how the brain responds to interactions and decisions, how fear, anxiety and nerves work and why we often react the way many of us do in stressful situations. You can’t control the stuff around you, but you can manage how you react, and that’s the secret of life,” she said.

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