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Construction quality management: Everything you need to know

Lets Build

It involves taking a quality-focused, hands-on approach to all stages and aspects of design, construction, and client relations. That gives your firm the fiscal strength and confidence to pitch positively for future work, without overruns or remediation eating into profit margins at this time of unexpectedly high inflation.

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10 Contract Terms for Higher Profitability

PSMJ Resources

Most clients are demanding more work for lower fees, and firms that do not reexamine the terms of their contracts usually find themselves without enough income to break even, let alone make a profit. With private sector clients, it can dramatically increase profits. Get partial or full payment of fees before starting.

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Relationship between the designer and the contractor

Construction Business Owner

» Relationship between the designer and the contractor. One part of our industry that I simply cannot get my head around is the oftentimes adversarial relationship that exists between the building design professionals and the building contractors on a particular job. Public Exposure and Liability on Construction Sites.

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Accounting for Retention Receivable & Payable: A Contractor’s Guide

Levelset

Construction projects rely on contractors completing the work they started and meeting the design intent. It can significantly impact the financial standing of contractors, especially when working on projects with a small profit margin. Both retention accounts are shown as current assets and current liabilities, respectively.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Section 179 was designed to provide an attractive tax savings on these purchases. If a business is unprofitable in 2011, and has no taxable income to use the deduction, that business can elect to use 100% Bonus Depreciation and carry-forward to a year when the business is profitable. Public Exposure and Liability on Construction Sites.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Customer Collaboration & Construction Software » Staying Focused in the Fight Against Profit Fade. There’s a name for these situations: “profit fade.” The profit you calculate when bidding a job can fluctuate dramatically as work progresses. Construction Business Owner E-Newsletter. -->. Home » Blogs.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

At Foundation Software, we try to avoid inmate takeovers by first assigning a lead analyst to oversee design for each project. We then provide a design methodology to follow. Design considerations are not relevant at this stage. The planning phase begins when our analyst designs the application from the user’s perspective.