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Controlling Construction Costs, Rocket Science, and Time Travel

Job Order Contracting

Controlling construction costs is not rocket science, nor does it involve time travel. Consistently delivering quality projects on time and on budget simply requires leadership, accountability, and commitment. The post Controlling Construction Costs, Rocket Science, and Time Travel appeared first on 4BT.

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Working Out An Effective Marketing Budget For Your Service-Based Company

Contractor Bookkeeping

Generally, there are five ways to work out a marketing budget for the year. Remember that these are marketing budgets, not advertising budgets.

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To Build Business: A story of travel economics

Construction Marketing Ideas

Tomorrow, I’ll be travelling to Philadelphia to attend the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) annual Build Business convention. The more challenging question (from a budget perspective): Do they provide a suitable return on investment for the time and travel […].

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County acts quickly, gets it done with budget-priced Gradall

Construction Equipment

Priced for government budgets, Discovery Series excavators travel quickly from one site to another. Anderson County, S.C., uses its Discovery Series Gradall excavator to break up a beaver dam as well as handle a wide range of drainage, ditching and finishing jobs.

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Coronavirus and travel: Can you get a refund and how do flight and travel credits and vouchers work?

Construction Test

Although we are now banned from travelling out of Australia except for emergencies, many travellers now find ourselves on an unknown path through unfamiliar territory. Millions of Australians, myself included, have booked and paid for overseas travel in the next few months. Refunds, vouchers and cancellations.

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Travel and COVID-19: Say goodbye to economy class as the golden era of cheap travel is declared over

Construction Test

The golden era of affordable international travel, which enabled hundreds of millions of people to travel to all corners of the world, has been declared over with COVID-19 social distancing regulations and other health measures set to undermine the viability of airlines.

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Travel and coronavirus: Tips and advice on the art of staying home (for now)

Construction Test

There are many ways to travel, and one of them is in the mind. So how can we recalibrate our brains to cope with an enforced period of non-travel? Lose yourself in any book written by Bruce Chatwin, Mark Twain or Bill Bryson; or dig deep into a travel documentary on the National Geographic channel. Another tip?

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