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5 Ways Mobile Tech on the Jobsite Helps Your Whole Business

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Mobile technology touches pretty much all parts of our lives these days, so it’s no surprise mobile has begun to play a significant role on construction jobsites. percent of construction contractors surveyed believe mobile technology is important or very important for their business. Connects the Office and the Field.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Ben Fiedler, Staff Consultant at Benchmark, Inc.

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Ben Fiedler , Staff Consultant at Benchmark Inc., has seen the positive impact of technology firsthand, having played a pivotal role in getting teams to adopt digital and mobile construction tools. We’re roof and pavement consultants. We are not architects or engineers and we’re not contractors.

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Seven Traits of Profitable Specialty Contractors

Fieldwire

Here are seven traits of profitable contractors. Specialty contractors thrive on providing expertise in specific areas; however, if that expertise is not in demand, it has little value. One task facing all contractors is marketing – the act of promoting and/or selling services. In-Demand Expertise. Effective Marketing.

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Validity of a Construction Cost Estimate – Public Sector

Job Order Contracting

The use of consultants to prepare estimates must be carefully structured and reviewed, to make sure that no conflicts of interest exist from a Government-Contractor relationship aspect. Estimates should be based on consultation and not be developed in a vacuum. Avoiding false precision and early optimism. Construction Estimate.

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Kimley-Horn eliminates the guesswork of electric vehicle charger site selection

BD+C

Kimley-Horn, the national engineering, planning, and design consulting firm, today launched TREDLite EV, a cloud-based tool that helps organizations develop and optimize their EV charger deployment strategies based on the organization’s unique priorities. has 145,000 public Level 2 and direct-current (DC) fast charging ports. will need 2.3

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Take the survey, get the report!

Cassell Construction Estimating

We try to make it applicable and valuable to everyone in a construction company, from the IT geeks like us to the contractors still using a fax machine,” stated James Benham, CEO, JBKnowledge. appeared first on Cassell Consulting - Construction Operations Consulting. Complete the 2015 Construction Technology Survey HERE.

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Are there times when you should really turn down or discourage business?

Construction Marketing Ideas

Consultant Michael Stone in a recent eletter describes a moral dilemma of one of his contractor clients. The contractor had been invited to quote a renovation project for a job at a run-down, double-wide mobile home — and the customer was ready to sign on the spot, having been declined (even to show up for […].