In the face of rising customer expectations and evolving industry standards, staying ahead in construction demands innovation. A Next Generation Construction ERP is designed to meet these challenges head-on. By integrating this advanced system into your tech stack, you empower your team with a single source of truth, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency.

For construction firms striving for operational excellence, the right ERP is a game-changer. Upgrading your construction ERP is essential for optimizing operations, enhancing decision-making, and driving growth. By downloading "10 Factors to Consider When Switching Your Construction ERP," you will learn: The importance of adaptability and scalability in ERP solutions.

To maximize your construction firm's profitability with a construction-specific software platform, your firm will be able to streamline every aspect of your operations. By design, this next-generation solution should offer unified functionality, replacing outdated systems and providing key capabilities including job costing, contract development, resource planning, and more.

For specialty contractors, using a construction software platform helps to lay the technological foundation required to support future growth and improved financial performance. Through integrated back office and field capabilities, you can improve how you bid, plan, staff, run, monitor, and close out self-performing projects, all while improving operational excellence.

At the highest level, contractors understand the importance of accurately predicting and preparing for variances in costs or schedules when delivering a construction project. In fact, leaders know it is essential to the profitability, cash flow and potential viability of projects. For that reason, forward-thinking decision-makers who know that forecasting is a complex process, also realize that this is not feasible by using out-of-date systems.

As the use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems in the construction industry is critical to optimizing operations, it's critical that decision makers conduct a thorough software evaluation to find the one that best aligns to their needs.

Spreadsheets and in-house tools can no longer manage the sophistication and the demand for data of modern construction. Our free buyer’s guide will help you identify what construction software you need and the key features you should be looking for.

This audio conference will provide insights and information that will be of significant value to anyone involved in the construction contracting processes, including those involved in contract formation and negotiation, contract administration, payment application and administration, change order and claims processing, and dispute resolution.

Whether you are an experienced electrician, engineer, architect, or maintenance personnel with some formal electrical training or background this audio conference will provide you with an explanation of common code practices based on NEC installation requirements.

The saying goes that two heads are better than one, and this is especially the case when pursuing government contract opportunities. It is a prime contract that has a contractor performing without any partners. Even large defense contractors with an extensive library of forms, however, can fall victim to certain traps that can lurk in the subcontract.

IBC's Chapter 10, Means of Egress is one of the most important chapters of the code and it is critical to have a good working knowledge of the requirements contained in the Chapter. It has been reported that a building will experience at least one substantial fire in its lifetime and that is when the importance of a code compliant exit system will be put into use.

The construction industry still is struggling to recover from the Great Recession, making nonpayment and late payment problems of critical concern to general contractors, subcontractors, design professionals and suppliers. Special remedies are available to assist in collecting monies owed for construction work, services and materials. This live audio conference will explain the types of payment remedies available, how they work, defenses to them, and the strengths and weaknesses of each remedy.

In 2010 the AIA led an industry-wide collaboration to update the AIA's Bond forms, which provide the fundamental framework of most bonding agreements within the construction industry. This live audio conference will help owners, contractors, architects, as well as their sureties and legal counsel, understand the unique obligations contained in the AIA Bond Forms and understand how contract bonding can provide security to those involved in the construction of projects.

Alleged violations of wage and hour laws have become a major source for the new wave of employment class actions, which often result in hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in many cases millions of dollars, of recoverable damages and attorneys' fees awarded to the successful litigants and their attorneys - in addition to the substantial amount of legal fees and administrative costs incurred by employers in defending these actions.

As owners search for project delivery systems that reduce the duration from project conception to project completion one of the most common approaches has included the use of guaranteed maximum price, or GMP, contracts. However, as the use of these contract formats has proliferated so have disputes that strongly suggest that the parties using them do not fully understand: the differences between GMP contracts and the contracts that the users are used to working under, or the risks that are inher

Very few sectors of the economy or the environmental industry are developing and changing as rapidly as the vapor intrusion industry. A recent flurry of regulation aimed at lowering indoor air contaminant thresholds has identified soil gas vapor intrusion as a major and previously unsuspected source of indoor air contamination. Many of these vapors of concern have been identified on the top 10 lists of carcinogens.

This live audio conference will offer an overview of basic insurance coverage used for construction projects. The presenters will discuss how to secure appropriate insurance coverage at a project's inception and what to do when claims arise during construction or after project completion. Builder's risk, CGL and other common project policies will be discussed.

For more than a century, The American Institute of Architects has published an integrated set of contract forms for the construction industry. While other industry groups independently have prepared their own competing set of forms and, more recently, some have banded together to create more of a consensus-based set of forms, the AIA forms remain the most widely used and accepted in the industry.