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Building Strong Starts: Protecting Profit Margins Through Effective Preconstruction

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the preconstruction phase), you complete a significant part of the job and create a strong foundation and direction for the remaining work. Doing so won’t just make your life easier; it’ll also help you protect your profit margins. When you stay on top of project planning and design from the beginning (i.e.,

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Customer Collaboration & Construction Software » Staying Focused in the Fight Against Profit Fade. Just about every contractor has been there — a project starts out strong but, as it moves forward, delays and incidental added work and changes knock dollars and cents off of the bottom line. Know the Contract and Budget.

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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Best Project Delivery Method

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While a project’s ultimate goal is a successful completion, the steps it takes to get there are critical to profits and project’s life cycle. By choosing the right one for your project, overall risk can be reduced, and budget and schedule can be better managed. No one model is perfect; all have benefits and drawbacks.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Close the Budget vs. Actual Gap. Carefully monitoring these numbers will help you preserve profit and build more accurate bids on future projects. change orders. foundation. foundation software. foundation. foundation software. Connect the Field to the Office. www.dexterchaney.com. Add new tag.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Rather than looking in the review mirror after a job is complete and realizing you’re over budget, make sure you have the ability to import estimates, manage change orders, report on committed costs, and allow your employees in the field remote access. change orders. foundation. foundation software.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

The topic of cash flow never seems to get old – after all, sustained negative cash flow often results in slashing budgets, personnel, and in the worst cases shutting down of a company. If the office doesn’t submit invoices in a timely manner and waits to pay them all at once, a job will appear to be at or under budget. change orders.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Notice that the horizontal axis represents your operating cost budget, and the vertical axis your capital (i.e., cost of owning) budget. This in turn lets the estimators use equipment rates that are spot on when estimating forthcoming work, which helps to get new work, and bring that work in profitably. change orders.