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Using Business Intelligence to Gain a Competitive Edge

Viewpoint Construction Technology

When profit margins are thin, it doesn’t take much to wipe out a project’s financial benefits. Insights from all this information could increase profit and productivity and reduce time, errors, and material waste. Insights from all this information could increase profit and productivity and reduce time, errors, and material waste.

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Job Order Contracting – Lean Construction History

Job Order Contracting

Subsequently State, County, and Local Governments, Transportation, Education, and Healthcare entities began to use Job Order Contracting. is intended to include contractor overhead, profit and any items that reflect the contractor and/or site and/or requirements. The total of the estimate is then multiplied by a coefficient.

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Content marketing: Peering into the future

Construction Marketing Ideas

You can visit newspaper offices in major cities and sense the canyon of silence with empty desks; and publications and broadcast outlets are consolidating and closing as they struggle to make a profit from advertising revenue that has switched to the online alternatives.)

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Five Things They Didn’t Teach Your Marketing Team in College

Construction Marketing

contact your company, visit your Web site, download your white paper, etc.). Examples include white papers, case studies, applications briefs, software, books, articles, charts, etc. Based on the content you provide, they also make a subjective judgment as to how well your company can meet their needs.

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Construction Cost Estimating Software vs. Spreadsheets – State of the Nation 2012

Building Information Management

Construction estimating involves the estimating of material, labor, equipment, overhead/profit and contingencies. White Paper – Cost Estimating Evolution .

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FEATURE STORY: The Cultural Roots Of High-Tech Growth

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

The Rocky Mountain Innosphere is a non-profit technology incubator formed to accelerate the success of high-impact scientific and technology startup companies and promote the development of a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem in Colorado. “Entrepreneurs come from somewhere—this seems obvious,” the white paper says.

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Quantity, quality or both: The numbers game revisited

Construction Marketing Ideas

If you have spent money on marketing: How much do you spend for an initial lead; how much is a client “worth” (net) immediately and over a lifetime — measured by your net profit/revenue? Then you have some market questions to answer: How many potential clients are in my marketing universe?