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What Certifications Does A Crane Need To Operate On Construction Sites?

Construction Marketing

A solid commitment to safety can help reduce legal liabilities resulting from accidents or non-compliance with safety regulations. They offer mobile, tower, and overhead crane certifications. Most construction companies and project owners require NCCCO-certified operators for bidding and subcontracting.

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Construction Estimating

Chianelli Estimating

Recently Contractors and Owners have found that Outsource Estimating is becoming a practical way to cut overhead. They do not have the burden of carrying costs like workmen’s compensation, general liability insurance, unemployment related costs, vacations or sick days, etc. Choosing the lowest bid is not always the best practice.

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Types of Capital for Construction Businesses

Levelset

That’s because other forms of capital — like labor or equipment — can’t generate value if you don’t have enough cash to take on new jobs, acquire materials, or cover overhead. Working capital measures the difference between a construction company’s current assets and current liabilities.

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JOC Tutorial #71 – Terms

Job Order Contracting

(a) “Adjustment factor” / “coefficient+ – job order contractor’s competitively bid adjustment to the organizations prices as published in the current unit price book. f) “Job order contractor” – a licensed, bonded, and general liability insured contractor awarded a job order contract. (g)

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Estimating- The New Normal

Chianelli Estimating

The tendency to adjust their bid estimating will inadvertently produce many business failures. Insurances; Workers compensation, General Liability, Risk. A typical Residential Contractor will insert profit and overhead to their bottom-line. The result will not be pretty. Under estimate real costs. Less opportunities.

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#98:  Good Faith Limits on Termination for Convenience

NH Construction Law

After the subcontract was signed but before the work started, the general contractor realized that a nearly identical project had been painted by the same sub at a lower per-unit price, and decided to invoke the termination clause, simultaneously inviting the sub to submit a new, lower bid.

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Emerging Contractor Program At Fast Easy Accounting

Contractor Bookkeeping

Maybe you began your company with a few friends and relatives and thought your overhead expenses would be low since you worked out of your home. This Means You Have Overhead - Not just office overhead, you have field overhead too. Fast Easy Accounting Has A Step-By-Step Process - To help emerging contractors.