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Tips for Creating a Healthy Cash Flow

Best Practices Construction Law

Who couldn't use more cash during the holiday season? No matter the season, however, construction companies rely heavily on cash flow to fund their operations. Cash flow depends on so many variables, but there are a few that you can control. Written Contract. Contract Provisions.

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7 Steps to Successful Project Closeout

Autodesk Construction Cloud

In fact, you typically won’t be able to release final retainage without it—effectively putting as much as 10% of your contract at stake. Problems like delayed change orders, poor communication and lost paperwork may make it harder to close out a project on time. Delayed change order resolution.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Beane didn’t achieve success by drafting players based on his emotional judgments or media-based hype. change orders. In fact, I often wonder how smaller construction businesses with tighter margins can compete with the gigantic firms who have unlimited resources. August 2012. April 2012. March 2012. February 2012. January 2012.

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Top ten software for estimating and bidding

Construction Cost Estimating

It focuses on the need of the contractor ranging from quantity take-off, pricing and planning a project, controlling at the site level, analytical calculations, critical path planning, dynamic forecasting, Project cash flow through to the final certificate.

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Relationship between the designer and the contractor

Construction Business Owner

Many of the contractors immediately shot down the concept with the age old line of questioning that pertains to the architects’ inability to draft an affordably reproduced plan and a perceived desire to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright on a modest budget. change orders. August 2012. April 2012. March 2012. February 2012.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Field changes and conditions were scribbled on note pads. In that relatively short time frame I am able to draft an email from 30,000 feet and send it into the ether to any number of project team members. change orders. The power of technology is awesome, and we should all resolve to leverage it as much as possible.

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3 Avoidable Headaches for Construction Project Managers [Webinar]

Autodesk Construction Cloud

And you have to do all that within a contracted amount of time with razor-thin profit margins. . This puts GC’s in breach of contract, which can lead to costly rework, lawsuits, late delivery, or all three. When PE’s fail to record necessary requirements, they’re unlikely to do them. Watch the recorded webinar here.