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The word-of-mouth marketing test (prerequisite): You need to pass this before you can go further

Construction Marketing Ideas

Repeat clients and referral business should be the cornerstone of your marketing initiatives. If you are serious about growing your business, you will appreciate that you need to go beyond relying on word-of-mouth referrals and repeat business for your success. However, there is a paradox here. If you can’t achieve 70 to 80 per cent of your business through soft word-of-mouth referral and repeat clients, you probably will fail.

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REBARS Is A Spreadsheet Program To Determine Reinforcing Bar Development And Splice Lengths For Steel Reinforcement

Construction Cost Estimating

"REBARS" is a MS-Excel based spreadsheet program useful for ascertaining reinforcing bar development and splice lengths specially, the development lengths and splice lengths for straight bars in tension as well as compression. Besides, the development length for standard hook bars is calculated. The provisions for development and splice lengths are contained in high seismic risk applications by adhering ACI 318-05.