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Reality Check: Using AI in Construction

Construction Business Owner

In this first of a three-part series on AI in construction, we take a closer look at the areas where AI can make a difference in streamlining project management, bridging the gaps between field and the office, and boosting productivity by reducing unnecessary overhead.

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Profit Starts With Knowing Your Numbers

Construction Business Owner

Profit Starts With Knowing Your Numbers ccapoccia Mon, 03/11/2024 - 10:15 The key to building a successful construction business: knowing and managing your numbers. You can’t bid projects right unless you know your job costs, production rates, actual overhead and profit goal.

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How to Set Financial Targets to Achieve Business Goals

Construction Business Owner

How to Set Financial Targets to Achieve Business Goals ccapoccia Fri, 02/09/2024 - 13:22 The key to building a successful construction business: knowing and managing your numbers. You can’t bid projects right unless you know your job costs, production rates, actual overhead and profit goal.

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Woodruff Construction Snatches Runaway Tool Costs from Overhead Black Hole

ENR Construction

Woodruff Construction, a general contractor that provides award-winning design-build, construction management, and project development services to clients across Iowa, needed to get a better handle on overhead costs so they could be allocated to job costing and billing.

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5 Technologies the Modern GC Should Be Using in 2021

Construction Business Owner

People and material make up the lion’s share of a contractor’s overhead, so it’s no surprise that efficiently managing these is the best way for contractors to improve their profitability. 5 Technologies the Modern GC Should Be Using in 2021. Alex Headley. Fri, 05/28/2021 - 07:30.

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Construction in the Metaverse – Is the Future Closer Than We Think?: Overhead in the Big Room

Autodesk Construction Cloud

People like to see things before they are real to give them a sense of certainty in what they are looking to invest in.” – Steve Rollo, National BIM/VDC Manager at Graham Construction & Engineering LP . It would help and improve the bidding and designing processes.” – an assistant project manager. a BIM/VDC manager.

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How to Modernize Construction Management

Viewpoint Construction Technology

There’s an industry transformation happening in construction, driven by modern technology, and these changes are significantly elevating construction management. Manual Processes Handcuffing True Construction Management. As companies grow, their overhead expenses can also grow.