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The Blueprint for Better Expense Management

Construction Business Owner

The Blueprint for Better Expense Management. How your company pays for purchases and manages expenses impacts your employees, your customers, and your key business metrics, including profitability. In this white paper, we’ll share how to modernize your expense management process to: Help employees work more efficiently.

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Is a National General Contractor or Local Commercial Construction Firm Better For Your Project?

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Like many of you, we spent the summer enjoying our country’s beautiful landscapes – from the badlands in the Dakotas to the mountains of Montana. Some of you are probably wondering if the travel costs that become part of the general conditions and overall construction budget of a national general contractor are worth it to the client.

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Streamlining Construction Projects with One System

Construction Business Owner

mhodges Fri, 03/29/2024 - 11:53 Construction is a project-oriented industry, and project management leaders have their hands full when it comes to bringing projects in on time and on budget—not to mention meeting customers’ high expectations. Please complete the form on this page to download this e-book.

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Making Budget Overruns a Thing of the Past by Predicting Future Costs

Construction Business Owner

Making Budget Overruns a Thing of the Past by Predicting Future Costs. This is a very difficult thing to do, as demonstrated by the fact that 98% of all construction projects go over budget. This is a very difficult thing to do, as demonstrated by the fact that 98% of all construction projects go over budget. Greg Ragsdale.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: It Don't Come Easy!

Rory Woolsey

Construction management in a nutshell is the planning, organizing, implementing and controlling of a projects time, costs, resources and cash flow. Success in construction management begins with a well thought out plan for the unfolding of events. Successful construction management always starts with a realistic organized plan.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Losing Your Shirt.

Rory Woolsey

I heard the Critical Path Method (CPM) defined once as a management technique for losing your shirt under perfect control! Not so funny if you have ever been at the management end of a tight timeline, in an old facility, around on-going operations with the concrete truck on its way and the formwork delayed because the backhoe is out of fuel!!

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Costing Construction

Rory Woolsey

” The facilities manager is already strapped for time with another demanding tenant, tight timelines, on-going operations, and emergency fixes. ” The budget estimate is just another task that takes from the already limited time in a day. We are always looking for shortcuts in our “means” to get to an “end.”