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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. Tie bonuses or other incentives to effective cash flow management.

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7 Steps to Successful Project Closeout

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Problems like delayed change orders, poor communication and lost paperwork may make it harder to close out a project on time. The first step is to track every part of the project to streamline reviewing legal terms and change orders, for example. Delayed change order resolution. The reverse bell curve.

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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. January 2009. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008.

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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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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. January 2009. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008.

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3 Avoidable Headaches for Construction Project Managers [Webinar]

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The modernized process that the industry is adopting is to use automated software like Pype AutoSpecs for initial submittal log drafting to save time, standardize processes, and mitigate risk. And when contract compliance relies on following only the most recent documents like plans, specs, change orders, addendums, etc.,