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Building Strong Starts: Protecting Profit Margins Through Effective Preconstruction

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Doing so won’t just make your life easier; it’ll also help you protect your profit margins. Because preconstruction offers the biggest opportunity to de-risk a project. This, in turn, leads to improved accuracy in project estimates , proactive risk management, and more effective resource allocation.

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The Secret Sauce to Protecting Construction Profits  

Autodesk Construction Cloud

By taking proactive steps and adopting the right tools, you can mitigate and safeguard your firm’s profits. For one, market factors heavily influence labor and material expenses, making forecasts difficult and increasing the likelihood of overruns. Then there are the projects themselves, which are incredibly complex.

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Improve Cash Flow Forecasting with Autodesk Construction Cloud

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Without being able to accurately forecast cash flow, making important decisions about the future of your firm or projects is a risky venture at best. The challenge with forecasting is that it’s often a time-consuming process making sense of scattered data , various spreadsheets, and multiple disconnected processes or systems.

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6 Construction Leaders Share How They’re Protecting Profits in 2023 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

To fulfill project and profit expectations consistently – and provide fulfillment for workers themselves. In The Construction Executive's Guide to Protecting Margins , we asked six industry leaders (and a colleague in engineering) how they’re managing profits, projects, and people. If anything, we have the opportunity to build smarter.

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Fire safety provisions push Durkan to £9.3m loss

Construction Enquirer

Group turnover of £132m (2021:£137.5m) fell short of initial forecasts for the year with delays to project start dates due to cost inflation pressures and programme movements. The firm said it has already completed certain remedial works due to the Government’s fire safety compliance changes amounting to £6.8m, with a further £8.1m

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5 Critical Construction Project Reports your System Should Pull Without Fuss

Viewpoint Construction Technology

At a bare minimum, you’ll need the following for your accounting function: profit and loss report, balance sheets, trial balance and trading summaries. These basic reports are critical to business profit and loss, and if your system can’t seamlessly pull them all in a flash it’s time to take a look at what else is out there.

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Kier whittles net debt down to £230m

Construction Enquirer

In a year-end trading statement, Kier said it had also managed to keep the order book above £10bn, with 85% of next year’s forecast revenue already secured. Andrew Davies, chief executive, said that despite inflationary pressures Kier would report revenue and profit in line with expectations in September. ”

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